With the liquidation of N.S. Khrushchev assault aircraft as a class, scraping down existing piston Il-10M and refusal to produce an Il-40 jet attack aircraft that did not have analogs, occupied this niche ...

All helicopters are sensitive to the load, and therefore the emphasis in choosing weapons for them is always on the weight of the helicopter. However, while multipurpose helicopters need weapons for ...

44 years ago, the front-line supersonic bomber Su-24 with a variable sweep wing made its first flight. We found out how he scared NATO, why the plane needed the device ...

The fifties of the last century are deservedly considered a period of rapid development of aviation. The emergence of jet engines, new materials and new technologies allowed aircraft designers to do the most ...

In the Russian army, everything changes: from the life of the soldiers to the development of modern weapons. Already, outsourcing companies perform an enormous amount of work that they used to ...

In early December 2013, in Zhukovsky near Moscow, the V.M. Myasishchev Experimental Machine-Building Plant (EMZ) presented the Yak-42D "Roshydromet" laboratory aircraft with a tail number ...

Alenia Aermacchi and ATK at a briefing at the Paris Airshow sounded the details of the successful first stage ground and flight tests of their multi-tasking MC-27J aircraft and told about ...

Unlike the shipbuilding program, the aircraft industry shows steady growth in all respects. GOZ is made almost at 100%, and for a number of positions and exceeded. New technology massively ...

In the outgoing year, the Samara Aviation Plant transferred the last Tu-154 aircraft released at the enterprise to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The car received a tail number 998, and this mass production ...

Paravanics were aircraft devices intended to divert (cut off) a sling of barrage balloons. The devices were cables pulled from the nose of the aircraft to ...

As you know, the manufacture of the first domestic turbojet engine (TRD) AM Lyulka started before the war in Leningrad. But the forced evacuation and difficulties, especially the initial period ...

December 23 long-range aviation pilots celebrated their professional holiday. On the same day, the commander of long-range aviation, Lieutenant-General A. Zhikharev, announced some plans of the Ministry of Defense, ...

The B-12, also known as the Mi-12, although the aircraft was never officially renamed (according to NATO codification Homer), is the most payload and heavy helicopter of all ...

As you know, the speed of experienced fighters at the beginning of the 1940-s exceeded the 700-kilometer line, and its further growth was restrained by both insufficient power of the piston engine and air ...

December 18 announced the completion of one of the longest tenders of the last time. According to the decision of the country's leadership, the Brazilian Air Force over the next few years ...

It took OKB-301 only half a year to build the 134 (La-9М) aircraft, the prototype of the future La-11. In May, test pilot 1947 AG Kochetkov, who transferred to the industry from the Air Force Institute, for the first time ...

In the Lavochkin Design Bureau, the improvement of the air combat aircraft did not stop for a minute. All novelties of the aviation industry and related industries were considered, checked and in the case ...

In the issue of the purchase of MiG-35 fighters for the domestic Air Force, there have been advances. We already wrote that the signing of the contract for the purchase of 37 units of these machines was transferred at the request of the Ministry of Finance to ...

Following the “Doubler” of La-5FN OKB Lavochkin together with TsAGI, one more machine No. 39210206 was finalized, which became the last step to the future La-7. The aircraft was notable for complete sealing of the engine hood, ...

This flying monster can hardly be called a bird. A giant terathorn living in prehistoric times, recorded by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest flying bird, weighed 80 kg ...

The Airbus A400M is a modern, four-engined turboprop military transport aircraft manufactured by Airbus Military. It is assumed that there will also be a civilian version ...

The multipurpose heavy helicopter Mi-10K is a specialized crane helicopter. The Mi-10K helicopter can carry bulky cargo not only inside the fuselage, but also on the external sling ....

There is much in common between these two aircraft, both of them appeared at the height of the Cold War, becoming for many years part of the national air defense. At the same time, they failed, for a number of reasons, to force out on this ...

35 turned years old yesterday as F / A-18 was adopted. Deck fighter-bomber F / A-18 "Hornet" is today one of the most successful modern combat aircraft and ...