In 1914, the Russian pilot Lt. Vyacheslav Tkachov became the very first Russian pilot who shot down enemy aircraft with handgun. He attacked German "Albatros" and shot the enemy pilot[1]
^Игорь Софронов. Личность: Русский сокол // журнал "Братишка", август 2012
Sources
Blume, August. The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I, Volume One. (Schiffer Publishing, 2010). ISBN0764333518, 978–0764333514.
— The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I, Volume Two. (Schiffer Publishing, 2010) ISBN0764333526, 9780764333521.
А.В. Махалин. М. Ткачёв — участник и историк воздушных сражений Великой войны // Первая мировая война и участие в ней России. Часть II. М., 1994.
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