TS-11 Iskra — polski odrzutowiec latał 60 lat i podbił Indie, choć Sowieci chcieli go zniszczyć!

The TS-11 Iskra—a Polish jet flew for 60 years and conquered India, even though the Soviets wanted to destroy it! The story of the first Polish jet aircraft, which the Kremlin wanted to write off even before production began. We tell the story of Tadeusz Sołtyk, a designer who fought at Kock in September 1939, and who, 20 years later, gave Poland a machine that broke four world records. We show the secret purchase of British engines by Yugoslavia, the refereeing duel in Monino near Moscow, where the Poles won and the Soviets chose the Czechs, Andrzej Abłamowicz's legendary landing without an engine from 9,000 meters, India's service in Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil War, where a Polish Iskra fired at Pakistani drones, the farewell of the Biało-Czerwone Iskry band in Dęblin, and the unexpected return of the Polish Air Force's lady to the skies in September 2025. Music used in the material: "Eyes of Glory" by Aakash Gandhi and "Duty Calls" by Rod Kim. Archival photos are from archive.org and are publicly available.