Chinese fighter 5 generation
Alarming news comes from the People's Republic of China, where in January last year the fifth-generation fighter Chengdu J-20, developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation, made its first flight. As of ...
Future capabilities of the Air Force - a promising assault aircraft will replace the Su-25 in the sky in 2025
Recently, a note on the existence of the concept of a new advanced assault aircraft (PSS) appeared on the website of the military department of the Russian Federation. According to the concept, when creating "Flying ...
"Snake" instead of "Lightning"? F-16 Upgrade
How much can you upgrade old equipment? The Americans already have fifth-generation aircraft, and when will the Russian go to the troops? Such and similar questions regularly arise in the comments to ...
Chinese helicopters - new models and weapons
A new missile, the ATGM, was put into service of the shock-type Chinese helicopter WZ-10. Resource "Chinese Military Review" presented to the public pictures of the helicopter "WZ-10" with the latest missiles on ...
Catch up and overtake the USSR
The American aerospace industry was tasked to develop the Long Range Strike-Bomber (LRS-B), a stealth analogue of the Tu-160, which for decades was the only representative ...
10 of the best fighters of the twentieth century according to the Military Channel
10 the best fighters of the twentieth century according to the Military Channel. The most important evaluation criterion is combat experience. All fighters represented, except for the 10 space (but for good reason), ...
The AgustaWestland AW609 convertible is ready to hit the market in 2016
Conversion plan AW609, developed by the Anglo-Italian company AgustaWestland, appeared in 1996 year as Bell XV-15, which was created jointly by Boeing and Bell. After that,...
Big airships can appear in the sky again.
In the United States of America, tests are underway on a new British Bedford hybrid airship. If everything goes well, airships that have long been considered exotic (after a series ...
PPSh system "Fiery hedgehog"
At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Tupolev Design Bureau designed and built samples of Tu-2Sh attack aircraft with unusual weapons. The base for them was the Tu-2C. Major innovation ...
2011 year in the company "Sukhoi"
Serious organizations involved in the creation of new technologies, new equipment or technology do not have easy times. Such is the peculiarity of their work. The typical representative of such firms ...
Sukhoi Su-35 fighter aircraft presented for the first time at Singapore Air Show
At the opening of the 14 in February at the Singapore Air Show, the model of the Su-4 multipurpose generation fighter 35 ++, developed by Sukhoi, is presented. The model of the aircraft is exhibited at the stand ...
New details update the Russian Air Force
January and February are a great time to talk about your plans for the coming year. Recently, representatives of the Navy spoke, and now the commander-in-chief took the floor ...
American fighter F-35A - "the wrong plane"
An unnamed insider from South Korea reported that the F-35A fighter, released by Lockheed Martin, an American company, and announced for a tender by the South Korean Air Force on ...
Ka-52K Marine Helicopter
The purchase by the Government of the Russian Federation of helicopter-carrying ships from France, which are called the “Mistral”, creates a number of new possibilities for the combat use of the Russian Ka-52 helicopter, which ...
Upgraded Tu-22M3 - PRO Killer
20 December last year, commander of the long-range aviation, Major General A. Zhikharev, at a press conference, spoke about the plans of the Air Force Command regarding the heavy aircraft fleet. In particular,...
Su-34 in the staff of the Russian Air Force
At the beginning of autumn, the state flight and tactical tests of the Sukhoi Design Bureau bomber, which received the name of Su-34, successfully ended successfully. The decision of the state ...
MiG-35, or Why do we need "4 ++"?
Not so long ago, not quite pleasant news came from India: Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale passed the final tender for the purchase of new fighters, while the Russian MiG-35 was left behind in the competition. By...
Antey - An-22 Heavy Military Transport Aircraft
End of 50's. The design office of O.Antonov, having a great experience in the development and creation of military transport aircraft, begins work on the creation of heavy aircraft to solve strategic ...
Kamikaze and P-700 "Granite". 2 part
Today’s article, being a continuation of the theme “What is similar to the kamikazes and Granit P-700, will be built in a mode of dialogue with readers. I will try to answer some of the most interesting, in my ...
Overview of the development of the MiG-29K / KUB deck fighter program
It all started 1984 year, when the MMP them. A.I. Mikoyan under the direction of General Designer R.A.Belyakov started the design of the MiG-29K (ed. 9-31). For four years, there was intense ...
Plans and the reality of the fifth generation, or again thirty-five
In the middle of last year, began what was waited for in the United States and beyond. Finally, the F-35 fighter went to the troops, even to the training center. The creation of this machine lasted 10 years (excluding ...
Invisible Truck for the Pentagon
The desire to hide their own military equipment from the eyes, radar and other means of observing the enemy is quite understandable: the harder it is for him to detect, for example, an airplane, the less likely it is to succeed ...
New equipment at Baltimore Air Base No. 7000
We present to your attention a short photo report from the Baltimore airbase on the arrival of new aviation equipment supplied as part of the implementation of the State Defense ...
Flying spy
Any state or military alliance that claims to be the first violin in the world orchestra, has focused on technical intelligence issues. This is explained quite simply: with the help of ...