“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Already on 4, the day of war, Halder, in his diary, said: “Russians are moving to the use of outdated low-speed four-engine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

The T-50 T-XNUMX flight test program for the future aviation complex of front-line aviation is quite successful, but the aircraft itself is still far from being put into service. Wherein...

After the famous crash of the German airship "Hindenburg", which occurred in 1937, the era of airships began to move towards its end. These "celestial whales" in the sky were replaced by airplanes and ...

Progress in radio electronics made it possible to develop new DRLO aircraft not only in superpowers, the process became less expensive - just like the final product. And air patrols of the most different ...

At the end of the nineties and the beginning of the two thousand years, the C-37 Berkut, which later received a new Su-47 index, became the highlight of the program of Russian air shows. The unusual appearance of the aircraft, ...

Lockheed A-12 was developed to replace the U-2. The work was ordered and financed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The main reason for starting work was the improvement ...

In the first two articles, there was a conversation about the ship-based DRLO aviation systems, but they are only the tip of the iceberg, since the most advanced machines of this class flew only from land ....

The helicopter as a carrier of the radar is noticeably inferior to the aircraft: it has less load carrying capacity, internal volumes, flight duration, and speed. But he does not need an airfield! The first ...

Nowadays, the air forces of any self-respecting country (and in some countries and the Navy, sometimes even the army) are trying to get hold of airplanes or at least helicopters of long-range radar monitoring and control ...

Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" - a four-engine strategic bomber. B-29 "Superfortress" was the only American-made aircraft with a range that allowed inflict ...

Recently, a lot of publications about F-22 have appeared in the network and in print, which are mainly divided into two camps. The first includes enthusiastic psalms about miracle weapons that can fight with ...

At present, one of the most promising types of weapons of the Air Force is considered to be aeronautical systems for mining the terrain. For the first time in combat conditions, these systems were used by the US Air Force and Navy more ...

In 1944, a new heavy bomber appeared on the Pacific theater of the Second World War. The characteristics of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress allowed it to effectively apply ...

In the first days of September, the Ukrainian media spread the news regarding several recent developments in the aviation industry of Ukraine. According to press reports, Iran ...

Almost a quarter of a century passed after the end of the Afghan war, which lasted ten years. This undeclared war cost our country irretrievable losses of about 15 thousands ...

Among the new products presented by the domestic defense industry at the international aerospace show MAKS-2013, there was a new anti-aircraft missile. As reported by the blog "Herald Air Defense" ...