Top 5 Lists are sure to generate controversy, whether for the items that are included in the lists and/or the ones that are excluded from the lists. My recent article on the "Top 5 Historic Military Aircraft That Changed Aviation" is living proof of this. That said, perhaps this newest list won't be quite as controversial, though there will still be some difficulties in subjectively narrowing it down: the Top 5 Weirdest Military Aircraft of All Time.
"Weird" doesn't necessarily "bad" in terms of quality or operational success, and not necessarily "ugly" either; after all, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," as the proverb goes (or as once put it, "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder"). But make no mistake, and these aircraft sure looked different, out-of-the-ordinary, unconventional (pick your label). Several of the source articles have more than five candidates, so I'll do my darnedest to narrow things down to the warbirds that give me the biggest "Whoa, WTF?" sentiment.
This one caught my eye, not just because of her name but because of her moniker. I mean, granted. There's nothing a'tall unusual about a warbird bearing a bird-of-prey moniker (see what I did there?).
But for me. The Russian word " " also stands out for me because it was the title of an equally weird , set at the end of WWII, with the premise being that Adolf Hitler faked his death in that banker and went "on the lam;" the title is the codename of the protagonist, the leader of an elite team of Sovie.
