The project of wide-body mid-range passenger aircraft An-218
Dry and in numbers - the An-218 was designed as a wide-body passenger aircraft. He had to fly on two engines from "Ruslan" and / or "Mriya", that is, the D-18TM, which was planned ...
Fighter OKB HAZ - Grushin Gr-1 (IDS). THE USSR. 1940 year
One of the least known heavy fighters, created in our country on the eve of the war, was the so-called long-range fighter escort IDS created under the leadership of PDGrushin. Peter...
Jet trainer Yak-32
The Yak-32 (according to the NATO codification Mantis (mantis) is a Soviet training jet aircraft. There was also a two-seat version of this machine, which had the Yak-30 index. The Yak-32 was ...
Intercontinental Tupolev Flying Boat - 504 Object
October 22 1922 was founded one of the oldest in Russia and the world design bureaus, which today is called the OKB Design Bureau. Tupolev. It was Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev who created for many years ...
Interrupted flight "Backfire"
Long-range aviation of the Air Forces of Russia is waiting for a modernized model of the Tu-90М22 supersonic Tu-3МXNUMX supersonic bomber developed from the beginning of the XNUMX-s.
The program of US military airships "blown away"
At the end of 2000, the Pentagon managed to spend almost 7 billions of dollars on a rather ambitious program to develop new-generation airships for military use. However, as a result ...
TU-22. With red stars on the wings
Tu-22 began to enter service in 1962. Among the personnel, the new car quickly gained the nickname “awl” for its distinctive appearance. Its development was not easy. Takeoff and landing speed ...
Basic patrol aircraft P-3 "Orion"
Created at the end of 50 by Lockheed, the P-3 “Orion” BPA (Basic Patrol Aviation) aircraft belongs to those aircraft models that are considered to be “eternal”. His progenitor appeared in 1957 ...
German aircraft engine Jumo-213
The military constantly sought and strive to obtain ever higher flight characteristics of the aircraft. The main way to succeed in this direction is to develop and use ...
An-70: Russian-Ukrainian unfinished
Prime Ministers of Ukraine and Russia Mykola Azarov and Dmitry Medvedev reached an agreement on the 10 meeting of the economic cooperation committee between the two countries ...
Helicopters Denel Rooivak Mk 1: 32 of the year from the start of the project to the first combat departure
On November 4, the South African Air Force conducted the first operation using Denel Rooivalk Mk 1 attack helicopters. At the end of October, three combat vehicles from the 16 squadron of the South African Air Force ...
The best plane failed war
Until the end of this year, the Russian Air Force will be replenished with 14 Su-34 front-line bombers. This was reported by the leadership of the United Aircraft Corporation during a meeting held on ...
Russian air force will increase its presence in three directions
In the past few weeks, a number of news has been received concerning the future development of the air force. The Russian military department intends to strengthen the air force bases in several directions, as well as ...
Russian wings of America. The United States Aviation and Astronautics owes much to emigrants from Russia
On Cape Canaveral in the United States, from which the spacecraft was launched on the moon, a monument was erected. No, not Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the surface of another planet, but a Russian ...
Secrets of PLM. The priority task of the Russian aircraft industry
The results of the MAKS-2013 air show, according to the results of which the amount of contracts exceeded the figures of previous years and reached $ 16 billion ($ 12 billion of which will be spent on the purchase and maintenance of Russian ...
How was created Y-2
Everyone knows that the N. N. Polikarpov U-2 aircraft played a large role in the history of Russian, and, perhaps, world aviation. Tens of thousands of pilots studied flying in this car. Cheap in ...
The accident Ka-52 in Moscow: the first information
On Tuesday, October 29 in the south-east of Moscow, in the Vykhino-Zhulebino area, an Ka-52 Alligator helicopter crashed. Around 15: 40 Moscow time rotary-wing machine, heading for ...
Kant air base: growth potential
October 23 marks 10 since the opening of the Russian aviation base in Kant (Kyrgyzstan). It was formed in accordance with the agreement between Russia and Kyrgyzstan on the status and conditions ...
He-219 "Filin": night predator
Heinkel He-219 "Filin" (German designation Heinkel He-219 "Uhu") is a twin-engine piston night fighter from the Second World War. It is noteworthy that this car was the first ...
Russian Army Aviation celebrates 65 anniversary
October 28 2013 of the year is celebrated its 65 anniversary by Russian Army aviation. 28 of October 1948 is considered to be the day of the creation of the national army aviation: on this day Serpukhov was created ...
The project of super heavy aircraft ekranoplan Boeing Pelican ULTRA (USA)
One of the main issues in the context of modern war is logistics. For an effective fight against the enemy, it is required in the shortest possible time to establish a transport system capable of delivering to ...
US programs to create new strategic bombers
The state of American strategic aviation cannot be called fully good. Currently, three types of strategic bombers are in service with the US Air Force: ...
Super-heavy air defense interceptor Tu-4 D-500, G-310 complex
In the Soviet Union, the threat of nuclear weapons carriers breaking through to the country's most important facilities at the end of 1940 and the beginning of 1950 was one of the main reasons for the rapid development of guided missiles ...
The riddle of the SPB or why the dive bomber did not go into the series
For the first time, the question of creating a dive bomber in the USSR, capable of bombing at angles of up to 60°, was considered by the Air Force in '1934. It was supposed to issue a task for a car with...