Il-28 front-line bomber
8 July 2013 turned 65 years since the first flight of the Il-28 jet bomber. Creating an aircraft of this class became possible due to the fact that in the year 1947 in the USSR they launched ...
Automatic gun Becker Type M2, Germany
One of the most famous small-caliber automatic guns are Oerlikon 20-mm guns. Created in the twenties of the last century, the design, undergoing changes, was able to win ...
Generation "5 minus." A variety of sorts in the domestic sky
By 2020, the Russian Air Force will face a large-scale renewal of its combat aircraft fleet. Military pilots should receive at least 440 units of Su-brand fighters alone. Among them are the newest complexes ...
Grokhovsky's “tailless man” - Mr. Cukaracha, Mr. 39
Work on the creation of the so-called "tailless" was carried out in an institution that bears the name "Special Design and Production Bureau of the Air Force", or in abbreviated form - Oskonbyuro. It appeared in 1930 ...
How much does IL-76MD-90A cost Russia?
IL-76MD-90А, also known as IL-476, is a deep modernization of the IL-76MD transport aircraft; it was developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau in conjunction with the Aviastar Aviation Plant Aviation Bureau. By...
Su-14 - the first jet attack aircraft
In 1948, the OKB conducted surveys on armored attack planes with turbo-jets and turboprop engines, and variants with powerful piston engines were also considered. The same work ...
Airships are not peaceful sky
“Zeppelin” ... In the years of the First World War, the mere uttering of this word was capable of terrorizing the inhabitants of Great Britain, France and the Benelux countries. Huge airships of rigid construction, ...
CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters will soon retire
The last of the American heavy transport helicopters CH-46E Sea Knight (Sea Knight) from the 262 Squadron of the US Marine Corps (ILC) took off from the ILC Futenma airbase in ...
A-100 "Premier" will replace aircraft ARLOU A-50
When planning a military operation against Syria, the American military expected to actively use aircraft of the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) system, for example the Boeing E-3 Sentry ....
Aircraft dr. Lippisha. Tails and not only
Professor Alexander Lippish is known as a propagandist of aircraft having a deltoid wing shape. In 1930-s, he developed a series of such gliders. Accumulated experience served ...
"The irreplaceable Iroquois"
Bell UH-1 "Iroquois" (born Bell UH-1 Iroquois) - American multi-purpose helicopter company Bell Helicopter Textron, also known as "Huey" (Huey). This is one of the most famous and popular cars in ...
Convertible CV-22 Osprey USAF
Convertible planes are aircraft that are capable of vertical take-off and landing (as helicopters do) and long-term high-speed horizontal flight, typical of ordinary ...
Prospective air-to-air missile Lockheed Martin CUDA
The United States leads the mass production of the newest fighter aircraft, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which, as is often said, surpasses all existing aircraft in its combat characteristics. When ...
Giant aircraft K-7
By the beginning of 30, the aviation design bureau, headed by KA Kalinin, was a fully formed team capable of solving completely new, even unexpected tasks in ...
Pilot transport aircraft GDP Dornier Do.31
Dornier Do.31 is an experimental vertical-take-off jet landing aircraft. The machine was created in Germany by Dornier. The customer was a military department that ...
The first ship of the series of rocket launchers
“In the 1987, the“ Lun ”descended on the water - the first ship of the series of combat missile-carrying WIGs weighing 400 tons. The chief designer was V. Kirillov. The ship was armed with three pairs of 3М80 cruise missiles or ...
Pentagon inspectors found a 363 defect in the F-35 fighter design
When inspecting the program of creating an American strike fighter of the 5 generation F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter), inspectors revealed a 363 defect in the implementation of this large-scale project of the Ministry ...
Argued the pilot with a submariner ...
In August, 1943, the fiercest battle between aircraft and submarine fleet took place in the Caribbean. The Browns of the 50 were banging powerfully. caliber, in response to them from the surface were squall ...
TB-3 - heavenly slug
At first, the enemy was very skeptical of this aircraft. Already on 4, the day of war, Halder, in his diary, said: “Russians are moving to the use of outdated low-speed four-engine ...
American UFO
UFOs of various forms now and then float around the world, a particular interest in unidentified flying objects arose after the end of the Second World War. At the end of the 40-s of the last century, the world covered ...
Aviation inconsistency
By the 2020 year, it is planned to have two or three types of highly specialized aircraft for each combat mission in the combat structure of the Russian Air Force. Differing in price, new cars have almost the same ...
"Swallow" nicknamed "Phoenix"
At the end of last year, the Serbian Air Force began to receive new aircraft - for the first time in the twenty years that have passed since the SFRYU. And, curiously, domestic-made aircraft. Of course, it would be naive ...
Prospective strike aircraft Scorpion is preparing for testing
In the development and use of combat aircraft in recent years there have been several major trends. Air battles between fighters have become quite rare and the main task of the aircraft was ...
Yak-130 always comes out of a corkscrew
As of September of this year, the YN-34 130 of the new Russian training aircraft have entered the Borisoglebsky Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots named after V.P. Chkalov. The first...