The primary agent of the Mysterons, " Zero-X " mission leader Angel Interceptor fighter aircraft . In addition, the organisation incorporates a fleet of Spectrum Pursuit Vehicles ( SPV ) hidden in secret locations around the world as well as the Spectrum Patrol Car, hovercraft, transport jets and machine-gun equipped helicopters.
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It was only in the late summer of 1943, with the increasing number of Allied bomber attacks on Germany, that Ansbach was assigned to the " Defense of the Reich ", campaign, and day interceptor fighters were assigned to the airfield to attack the American Eighth Air Force heavy bomber formations.
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The Stratojet could reach a speed of more than 1, 000 km / h, which at the time was faster than most interceptor fighters, and fly for 7, 000 kilometers without refuelling more than enough to be able to strike at large tracts of the Soviet Union from bases in England.
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The increasing number and frequency of USAAF Eighth Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator daylight heavy bomber raids over occupied Europe and Germany made the Luftwaffe move out the bomber units and assign day interceptor fighter units to attack the American bombers as part of the Defense of the Reich.
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The Iranian force of AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunships began attacks on the advancing Iraqi divisions, along with F-4 Phantoms armed with Maverick missiles; Meanwhile, Iraqi air attacks on Iran were repulsed by Iran's F-14 Tomcat interceptor fighter jets, using Phoenix missiles, which downed a dozen of Iraq's Soviet-built fighters in the first two days of battle.
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Where before combat in the air would have been between aircraft, with high flying bombers carrying nuclear weapons and fast interceptor fighter aircraft trying to stop them, now the guided missile, particularly the surface-to-air missile, threatened all aircraft . The emergent space age showed that missiles could also deliver those nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.
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During World War II, high-test peroxide was used as an oxidizer in some German bipropellant rocket designs, such as the Walter HWK 509A rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 point defense interceptor fighter late in World War II, comprising 80 % of the standardized mixture " T-Stoff ", and also in the German Type XVII submarine.
