Over the past two years, the newest Su-35 fighter with variable thrust vectoring engines has become the star of Russian aviation news. If his transfer to the Air Force of Russia in the last ...

The Second World War has become a true at times flourishing piston fighter. Each of the parties to the conflict by the end of the war had excellent in its flight characteristics and arming machines, ...

As soon as aviation was born, large teams of specialists began to deal with flight safety. By the resolution of the government of our country in 1960, more than 20 scientific and industrial ...

A lot of interesting and unusual equipment is created during the arms race. Often, such military equipment for the uninitiated looks pretty strange. However, there are some devices that even ...

Recently, new details of the program for creating a promising long-range aviation complex (PAK DA) have become known. A contract has already been signed to design a new aircraft, and it has also begun ...

In September, the long-range aviation of the Russian Air Force conducted tactical flight exercises with practical refueling of strategic Tu-95 MS bombers in the air with Il-78 aircraft tankers. According to ...

American experts in the field of the theory of armaments, Bernard and Fawn Brody, in the early 60-s of the last century put forward a non-trivial thesis that “the thinking process of choosing acceptable ...

7 February 1906 was born Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov. From childhood, Antonov was fond of aviation and founded an original design school and created 52 such as gliders and 22 ...

9 February 1977 died Sergei Ilyushin, an outstanding Soviet aircraft designer, Colonel-General of Engineering and Technical Services, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. OKB, which he headed, today is considered ...

Thanks to the state-of-the-art arms to 2020 program of an unprecedented scale for the third year in a row, the Russian military industrial complex ranks first in the world in industry growth rates and second in terms of volume ...

Already in the first months of the long-awaited and blood-conquered world, the Soviet Union found itself on the brink of an abyss. The Third World War in the future was supposed to be more monstrous than the Great ...

Yak-44E - deck aircraft radar patrol, guidance and control and electronic countermeasures. This machine was developed in the middle of 1970-ies in the Design Bureau. Yakovlev. In different ...

The Wikipedia article on the F-35 fighter was translated into the 53 language! And along with it, a chapter was devoted to the confrontation between the analytical center "Air Power Australia" and ...

On the morning of March 27, 1943, the first Soviet jet fighter, the BI-1, took off from the airfield at the Koltsovo Research Institute of Air Force in the Sverdlovsk Region. Passed the seventh test flight to achieve ...

By 2015, the new Russian high-speed helicopter should have a technical design and a full-fledged "flying laboratory". The Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant expects to receive ...

The titanic efforts of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, aimed at comprehensive coverage of the JSF program (a detailed description of the stages of development, construction and test results of the new fighter), ...

26 January 1911 was a test flight of the first hydroplane, piloted by the American aeronautical pioneer Glen Curtis. A ground-based airplane mounted on floats was the first ...

C-2 Greyhound is an American carrier-based tactical transport aircraft. Medium-range machine was developed by the American company Grumman on the program Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) based on ...

The concept of aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing on the tail has become a short but vivid episode in the history of world aviation. Most of the prototypes and prototypes of aircraft-VTOL (abbreviation ...

In the 1982 year, at the time of the outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon, the Syrian air force had Su-20 fighter-bombers, as well as one squadron of the newest Su-22M. These planes from the first ...

C-music is a complete solution for aircraft self-defense. In the photo below the fuselage of the B707 aircraft, the Elisra Paws missile warning system and the ...

In 1967, ten years after the start of production, export supplies of the Su-7B specialized fighter-bomber in the export modification Su-7BMK began. The planes were delivered ...

One of the ways to improve the combat effectiveness of aircraft during the Second World War was to increase the caliber of barrel weapons. The German attack aircraft has become a peculiar champion in this respect ...

The very strange and unusual placement of the engines in the tail of the aircraft is a necessary measure in an attempt to prevent them from stopping due to the ingress of powder gases into the air intakes during firing. Well...