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Aircraft by Conflict - From World War 1 to the Balkans


Aircraft have been a consistent part of warfare since the fighting years of The Great War.

The 20th Century was littered with conflicts and victory in many of these campaigns was influenced by control of the air. Below is our collection of aircaft based around the conflicts they fought in - proving just what an important facet of warfare the aircraft had been and remains so today.



Image of the British Sopwith Camel biplane fighter
World War 1 (1914-1918)
Image of the French Potez Model 25 biplane aircraft
Chaco War (1932-1935)
Image of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 monoplane fighter
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Image of the Grumman F6F Hellcat navy monoplane fighter
World War 2 (1939-1945)
Image of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber attack aircraft
French-Indochina War (1946-1954)
Image of the Antonov An-32 Cline military transport
Cold War (1947-1991)
Image of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito heavy fighter
Arab-Israeli War (1948)
Image of the British Avro Lancaster heavy bomber
Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
Image of the British Avro Vulcan heavy bomber
Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Image of the Douglas A-1 Skyraider Close-Air Support attack aircraft
Korean War (1950-1953)
Image of the French Dassault Mystere fighter-bomber
Suez Crisis (1954)
Image of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed supersonic fighter
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Image of the North American F-100 Super Sabre fighter-bomber
Cuban Missile Crisis (1959-1960)
Image of the North American F-86 Sabre jet fighter
Indo-Pak Wars (1965,1971)
Image of the Tupolev Tu-16 Badger bomber aircraft
Six Day War (1967)
Image of the Dassault Mirage 3 supersonic fighter
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Image of the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot combat aircraft
Soviet Afghan War (1979-1989)
Image of the Northrop F-5 Tiger jet fighter
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Image of the Dassault Super Etendard navy fighter
Falklands War (1982)
Image of the Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter-bomber
Lebanon War (1982)
Image of the Boeing / Hughes AH-64 Apache attack helicopter
Operation Desert Storm (1991)
Image of the Boeing / McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle fighter-bomber
Operation Allied Force (1999)