Aircraft from 1960 - 1969
During the 1960s, VTOL jet-powered flight was operationally reached with the arrival of the British Harrier while other technologies continually evolved to new heights.
There are a total of 79 Aircraft from 1960 to 1969 in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1962
The Aermacchi MB.326 series of aircraft has become one of the most successful blends of operational trainer and light attack ...
1963
The Czech designed and produced Aero L-29 Delfin (translating to "Dolphin"; NATO designation of "Maya") series was a highly u...
1969
One of the great aviation stories to come out of a post-Cold War world, the British and French-made Concorde stands as the on...
1960
The Aerospatiale Alouette III, is French for Skylark having a single-engine and to be used as a light utility helicopter and ...
1964
The SA 321 Super Frelon is a French-produced multirole helicopter falling under the Aerospatiale brand. The mammoth design be...
1965
The Antonov An-22 Antei (or "Cock") was another in the long line of Antonov transports designed and produced throughout the C...
1962
The An-24 "Coke" was yet another in the long line of military transport aircraft produced during the Cold War by the Antonov ...
1967
At its core, the Strikemaster was a jet-powered training platform with inherent light ground attack facilities as secondary. ...
1968
The Nimrod aircraft came about as a replacement for the aging and World War Two-era piston-engine Avro Shackleton. Charged wi...
1967
The Bell 206 was derived from the unsuccessful OH-4 bid by the Bell company to fulfill a US Army need for a light-weight, tur...
1967
Based on the private venture Bell 209 helicopter, the AH-1 Cobra series of helicopters is many a military's primary light att...
1969
The Bell OH-58 Kiowa has seen a long, successful and extended service life with the US Army (and others) since its inception ...
1961
The Beriev Be-12 "Mail" was a successful flying boat aircraft for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, fulfilling the role o...
1962
The Blackburn Buccaneer was a low-level, high-speed, carrier-borne strike aircraft utilized by the British Royal Air Force an...
1962
The Chinook series of medium-lift helicopters has been a mainstay utility service system for the US Army (among others) for d...
1964
The CH-46 Sea Knight is similar in design and role to the CH-47 Chinook series of transport helicopters. Both offer up unobst...
1967
The Cessna A-37 Dragonfly was born out of a need for close-support aircraft to assist in the Vietnam War. As such, the T-37 j...
1960
The delta-wing Convair B-58 Hustler was the first United States Air Force supersonic operational bomber. The system was desig...
1965
The Mirage IIIV was designed to a NATO requirement for a supersonic VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) fighter aircraft. Th...
1963
The Dassault Mirage IV series was designed to a French requirement for a supersonic aircraft platform capable of delivering a...
1967
The Dassault Mirage V / Mirage 50 series of French-built multi-role aircraft stands as the last further development of the su...
1961
The B-26K/A-26B "Counter Invader" was based on a highly modified airframe of the World War 2-era Douglas A-26 Invader attack ...
1960
The English Electric Lightning was an impressive engineering feat for the British people. She was the first (and only) Mach 2...
1967
The General Dynamics F-111 "Aardvark" was purposely-designed as a variable geometry "swing wing" platform from the outset. Th...
1967
The Grumman C-2 Greyhound was developed from the successful Grumman E-2 Hawkeye. Whereas the latter was a dedicated carrier-b...
1968
The Grumman A-6 Intruder series of strike aircraft was designed to a United States Navy specification drawn up covering an at...
1964
The E-2 Hawkeye series serves carrier battle groups (principally in the United States Navy) and is called upon as an all-weat...
1962
The Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd HF-24 Marut was the first Indian attempt at an indigenous aircraft design since separating from...
1965
One-time close political ties between the Soviet Union and China allowed for the passing of military goods to the latter. Whi...
1969
The subsonic British Harrier "jump jet" became the world's first practical VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft afte...
1966
The Hughes OH-6 "Cayuse" (popularly recognized as the "Loach") was a revolutionary light helicopter mount primarily in servic...
1968
The Ilyushin IL-38 (NATO codename of "May") is a maritime patrol and anti-submarine platform utilized solely by the navies of...
1962
The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite helicopter has served a lengthy and respected career in the navies of several nations across the glo...
1966
The Kamov Ka-25 (NATO codename of "Hormone") was developed from the Ka-20, which itself was a response to a Soviet Navy requi...
1967
The AH-56 Cheyenne was Lockheed's first and only foray into development of a production helicopter. In many respects, howeve...
1965
The C-141 Starlifter appeared in 1965 - interestingly enough without a prototype preceding its inception - and became the wor...
1962
The P-3 Orion aircraft is a product of Lockheed Martin, designed and accepted at a time when Lockheed could do little wrong i...
1966
The MC-130 series is represented by the MC-130E Combat Talon I and the MC-130H Combat Talon II systems. Both utilize the huge...
1966
The sleek SR-71 Blackbird spyplane reached an all new plateau in supersonic high-level flight for the Lockheed Corporation. D...
1960
Arguably one of the finest combat fighters of the 20th Century, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II series was produced in larger nu...
1963
The F-4G represented the "Wild Weasel" off-shoot of the successful F-4 Phantom II line. Wild Weasel aircraft represented (and...
1962
The Mil Mi-6 was an inventory stalwart for the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War. For a time, the Mi-6 represen...
1967
Numbering well over 12,000 production examples, the Mil Mi-8 (NATO reporting name of "Hip") can be viewed as one of the most ...
1961
The A-5 Vigilante bomber actually began as a private venture by the North American Aviation Company as early as 1953. This de...
1966
The North American/Rockwell OV-10 Bronco was developed through the United States Marine Corps Light Armed Reconnaissance Airc...
1964
The XB-70 Valkyrie was intended to be the USAF 'super bomber' for decades to come and was tabbed as the eventual successor to...
1962
The Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter" / "Tiger" / "Tiger II" series was designed from the outset as a low-cost, lightweight, mul...
1963
The Prowler series of carrierbased aircraft are dedicated electronic warfare systems based on the Vietnam-era A-6 Intruder st...
1960
The Saab J 35 Draken (translated in English to "Dragon" but carrying the meaning of "Kite" based on the aircraft's angular re...
1968
The Saab Viggen proved to be yet another milestone in the indigenous design theories put forth by the nation of Sweden. The s...
1961
For decades China, and its regional allies, relied on the availability of their Shenyang J-6 series (NATO codename of "Farmer...
1966
The Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion is a heavy-lift helicopter system developed for the United States Marine Corps and utilized b...
1967
The HH-3E "Jolly Green Giant" was a specialized development of the original Sikorsky CH-3 transport helicopter. The HH-3E was...
1961
At its peak, the Sikorsky SH-3 series of naval aircraft was a widely used and successful platform utilized in anti-submarine ...
1969
The Puma began life as a product of Sud Aviation designed to meet an French Army requirement for an all-weather, medium-lift,...
1964
The Su-11, by any regard, is considered a potent fighter. Based on a further development of the inferior and limited Su-9, th...
1967
The Su-15 (NATO codename of "Flagon") series of aircraft was designed by the Sukhoi firm as a true interceptor with the sole ...
1967
The Transall C-160 tactical transport aircraft was born out of a joint French-West German consortium known as "Transporter Al...
1962
Design of the Tu-126 was conventional and followed much of what made large, propeller-driven Soviet concepts throughout the C...
1962
The Soviet/Russian Tupolev concern has had a long and established history in developing and producing large bomber-class airc...
1963
The Tupolev-produced Tu-28 (NATO codename of "Fiddler") was a large intercept-capable aircraft built for the simple role of a...
1967
The middle-weight Vought-produced A-7 Corsair II was designed as a replacement for the A-4 Skyhawk light-weight fighter / bom...
1965
Nearly an exact copy of the Yak-25 (and the Yak-26 and Yak-27 for that matter), the Yakovlev Yak-28 was initially thought of ...
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