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R3

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ260029
Source-derived summary

R3, R.III or R-3 or R/3 may refer to:

Aviation

Aviatik R.III, a German aircraft

DFW R.III, a World War I German bomber aircraft

Loring R-III, a Spanish reconnaissance biplane

Ross R-3 glider

Tupolev R-3 Soviet reconnaissance aircraft

Yakutia Airlines IATA airline designator

Entertainment

BBC Radio 3, a radio operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom

R3 (TV series), produced by the BBC between 1964 and 1965

Region 3, the DVD region code for Southeast Asia, South Korea, Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Macau

Resistance 3, the third game in the Resistance series

R3 (video game), a computer game for the Amiga series of computers in 1995

Military

Version of the German Rheintochter ground to air missile

R-3 (missile), an abandoned Soviet ICBM design from the late '40s.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “R3” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1965, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “R3”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q260029. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1965 and 1995.

Critical limits

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “R3”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow R3 primary sources, R3 archive and Wikimedia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from R3” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.