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The smallest manned combat aircraft that I know about could have been the Russian I-16 "Rat" used early in WW2 and in the Spanish Civil War. It was one of the first planes that Russia built that was an effective fighter aircraft with one wing. It was also the first operational aircraft to have retractable landing gear.
In today's modern air forces, there are lots of small drone aircraft(or unmanned) that fire missiles. Most of these are used to hit ground targets. While these planes are smaller and more simple than the fighter jets flown by pilots, some of them are still large aircraft with long wing spans.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt would be one of the hand launched UAVs, of which several makes are in service, to include the RQ-11 Raven in US service.
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