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Cuban MiG Fighters
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Period 1913-1952. Beginnings
Period 1952-1958. Batista's Government and Fidel's Revolution
Period after the Revolution, to today
The Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Today
Cuban Military Aviation
Cuban MiG Fighters
The MiG-15 Fagot in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
The first MiG-15 arrive at Cuba at the end of May of 1961, a month after Bay of Pigs. They were 20 MiG-15bis and 4 MiG-15UTI.
With these equipment are formed the first two MiG-15bis Squadrons. Cuban Missile Crisis. Hunting the CIA ship Rex.
The MiG-17 Fresco in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
The first MiG-17AS arrive at Cuba at the beginning of 1964, destined to Santa Clara. Its main mission was to fight as fighter-bombers.
The MiG-17AS were a rare version with air-air missiles. In foreign campaign. Angola, Ethiopie, others countries.
The MiG-19 Farmer in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
By the Missile Crisis in October of 1962, were in service 11 MiG-19P. This aircraft converts the FAR in the first Latin American
Air Force with supersonics fighters. At the same time they are the first soviet interceptor with all weather capacity, thanks to its radar.
The MiG-21 Fishbed in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
In total from 1962 to 1989 to Cuba arrives some 270 MiG-21 fighters in 9 versions, being the main combat aircraft of the country during the Cold War.
The Cuban MiG-21 in action (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
Fight the enemy ships. Participation in Angolan and Etiophie Wars. Collaboration with Chile, Perú.
The Operation Pico (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
The Cuban MiG-21 'attack' the Dominican Republic. An incident with a Cuban ship retained by the Dominican Republic in 1977, almost carries to a conflict between the two countries,
resolved after the demonstration of power of various MiG-21 of the Cuban FAR over the neighboring country.
The Cuban Air Force in the Ogaden War (Etiophia) (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
Somalia never recovered from the defeat in the war of the Ogaden in 1977-1978 at the hands of Ethiopian and Cuban armies.
The decisive participation of the MiG-17 and MiG-21 Cuban in this conflict.
The MiG-23 Flogger in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
This was the most important fighter of the USSR in the 70-80s, with their variable-geometry configuration and nuclear capacity.
The appear in the FAR of these airplanes, considerably growed its attack capacity, which trembles the political circles in USA. The Cuban MiG-23 Crisis.
The Cuban MiG-23 in air-ground action (in Angola) (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
Air support missions in the Angolan War, against the South African Army and the UNITA guerrillas. The Cuito Cuanavale victory,
Attack of Calueque, others actions.
The Cuban MiG-23 in air-air action (in Angola) (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
The Fighters that won the air Superiority in Angolan War against the South Africa Air Force, armed with Mirage F1 and Mirage-III
The MiG-29 Fulcrum in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
The first 4th generation soviet fighter. The shoot down of 2 Cessna-337 of the the exiled organization Brothers to the Rescue Cessna-337
Others Cuban aircrafts
Cuban built airplanes (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
Without being an industrialized country, Cuba has made a modest effort in the field of the national aeronautical engineering, reflected today in this article.
The North American F-51 Mustang in Cuba
Rubén Urribarres
Arrival of the Mustangs to Cuba in 1958 on clandestine flights into the rebel territory. Membership in the rebel antibatistianos. His fate after the revolution
Cuban Air Force and Airlines Equipment
Rubén Urribarres
List of airplanes that were in service in Cuba.
Period 1913-1952. Beginnings
Birth of the Cuban Army Air Corp (1913-1924)
Rubén Urribarres
Historical beginnings - First airplanes in Cuba - The Aviation pioneers Parlá and Rosillo and the legendary "Flight of audacious" -
The military aviation born - Some flights of the new aviation - The First World War - After the war. The first official airplanes -
The epoch of the Curtiss Jenny in Cuba - The conspiracy of "Veterans and Patriots" and Rubén Martínez Villena
Audacious Flight of Rosillo and Parlá (1913)
Rubén Urribarres
The first international flight of Latin America, and world record of distance, made in 1913 over the sea by two Cuban aviation pioneers,
in the epoch of the fragile airplanes and audacious feats.
The Cuban Air Force and the President Machado (1925-1933)
Rubén Urribarres
The Military Aviation Grows - New equipment acquisitions in 1927-1932 - The Curtiss Hawk and Vought Corsar - Lindberg strolls the President -
Other illustrious visitors - The Aviation Military School - The events of Gibara - Other activities of the period
The Cuban Air Force and the Revolution of 1933 (1933-1938).
Rubén Urribarres
The Revolution explodes - Organization changes of the Aviation Corp - Some aviation actions in 1933-1934 - The quiet years 30 -
Purchases of airplanes in 1933-1939 - Important Flights of the Air Corp in 1936-1939 - The "Cuban Eight"
The Trasatlantic Flight of Menéndez Peláez (1936).
Rubén Urribarres
The Cuban military aviator Menéndez Peláez, becomes in 1936 the first Hispanic that crossing the Atlantic Ocean from America to Europe,
opening new air routes that later would be exploited with success.
Pan-American Flight "For the Columbus Lighthouse" (1937).
Rubén Urribarres
In 1937 the Cuban and Dominican aviators made this famous flight of good will by various countries of the continent,
that finishes tragically, perishing Men�ndez Pel�ez and six of their companions. In 1938 and 1940 the Aviation of the Cuban Army and the Cuban Navy repeat the feat.
The Cuban Air Force and the Second World War (1939-1945).
Rubén Urribarres
Organization changes of the aviation - Airplanes bought in 1939-1941 - Cuba enters the war - New airplanes for the conflict -
The Americans landed in Cuba - The training programs increased - Accidents in the period 1943-1945
The Cuban Air Force: the The Cayo Confites prosperity and the new equipment (1947-1952)
Rubén Urribarres
New airplanes and the first helicopters - Expedition against Trujillo - The airplanes of the Legion are confiscated -
Results for the Air Corp - Promotions of the Aviation School and events of the period 1947-1952 - New airplanes and the first helicopters
Period 1952-1958. Batista's Government and Fidel's Revolution
The Cuban Army Air Force (FAEC) and Batista (1952-1955).
Rubén Urribarres
Batista's changes in the aviation. The FAEC - Mutual Defence Program with United States - Promotions of the aviation school under the new programs -
New equipment - The sound barrier and other events - The F-47D Thunderbolts. Activities and accidents
The Cuban Army Air Force during the Revolution. The Cienfuegos Revolt (1956-1958).
Rubén Urribarres
September 5, 1957: The Naval Revolt of Cienfuegos and its consequences - New equipment in 1957-1958 -
Promotions of the Aviation School in 1956-1958 - Accidents in 1956-1958
The Cuban Army Air Force against the Fidel's guerrilla (1956-1958).
Rubén Urribarres
The hunt of the Granma yacht - The battle of Alegría de Pío - The Army's offensive in May, 1958 - Operation "Antia�rea":
Kidnap of Americans to stop the FAEC - The Battle of Guisa
The Cuban Army Air Force: last operations against the guerrilla (1958).
Rubén Urribarres
Last combats in Oriente and the Invasion to West - The FAEC seen by the guerrilla - Battle of Santa Clara -
Problems of the FAEC in COIN operations - Batista's escape and the remainders of the FAEC
The Rebeld Air Force, the guerrilla aviation (1958).
Rubén Urribarres
First airplane to the guerrilla - Creation of the FAR - The FAEC against the FAR - Helicopter and bombs of the rebelds - Military Airplanes of the FAR
The Rebeld Air Force operations against Batista (1958).
Rubén Urribarres
Attacks of the FAEC to the runway of FAR in Mayar� Arriba - Fidelist Mustangs - Attack to the headquarters of La Maya -
Attack to Sagua de Tánamo - Operational Results of the FAR
Period after the Revolution, to today
Bay of Pigs: The Guatemalan connection
Mario Overall
With the recent declassification of a whole bunch of CIA papers dealing with the Bay of Pigs invasion, some obscure subjects are seeing
the light of day. In this article the author takes us on a guided tour inside of a CIA secret airbase in Guatemala, known as JMMadd.
The Rage of the Furies
Mario Overall
This article deals with the operational history of the Cuban Air Force's Hawker Sea Fury Squadron,
including its participation during the Bay of Pigs incident.
Che Guevara, Cuban Pilot,
Rubén Urribarres
The Major Ernesto Che Guevara was a great aviation lover, and in Cuba he was graduated as pilot, flying more than 1,000 hours
in different types of airplanes of tha Cuban Air Force.
Operation Carlota
Gabriel García Márquez
The Nobel Prize of Literature counts the beginnings of the Cuban military mission in Angola, the first secret flights of Cubans special troops
to the African country in the legendaries Bristol Britannia, the cultural, political, and historic causes that move Cuba to the encounter of its African roots.
The Four engined Tupolevs in Cuba (spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
By 1962 the intensity of the loops between Cuba and the Soviet Union required that be to opened a direct air route,
that beginning the gigantic aircrafts Tu-114. Later in Cuba were based the aircrafts Tu-95 and Tu-142 Bear of the VVS and the VMF of the USSR,
whiles flights around USA would be some of the symbols of the Cold War.
The Ethiopian War (Ogaden)(spanish)
Rubén Urribarres
In 1977 Ethiopia is invaded by Somalia, and asks helps military to Cuba. As part of the military contingent military, arrive Cubans pilots,
that fight together the ethiopian until the victory of 1978.
The Accident. The Shoot Down of a South African Mirage F1 by Cuban MiG-23
Arthur Piercy
The September 27 of 1987 an air combat is produced in Angola between the Cuban MiG-23 and the South African Mirage F1,
one of which was shoot down. Arthur Piercy, the South African pilot of this lost airplane, relate its own version of the event.
A SAAF Pilot
Arthur Piercy
Arthur Piercy, the South African pilot of the anterior article, count their Personal data and Flying Career.
The Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Today
The Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Today
Rubén Urribarres
Summary, organization, training.
The FAR today
Rubén Urribarres
The FAR, today. Equipment, missiles, air bases, air defences, perspectives
Cuban Air Militaria
Fighter Wings, badgets, helmets.
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