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F-86 SABRE

The North American NA-140 (or F-86 Sabre as it was better known) was a classic American single-seater fighter and fighter-bomber aircraft serving from 1949 to the 1980s, though production ended in 1956. Various models were produced, the F-86F being powered by a General Electric J47-GE-27 turbojet giving a top speed of 1118 kmh and a maximum range of 2044 km with drop tanks. The F-86F was a low-wing cantilever monoplane armed with six Browning 0.5 inch calibre M3 heavy machine-guns fitted in the nose and fitted with two under-wing hard points capable of carrying 907 kg of disposable stores which typically comprised two 1000 lb or 500 lb free-fall bombs or sixteen 16.5 inch HVAR unguided rockets.
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