The trouble came from the air. Bismarck, Marat and Yamato became easy prey for pilots. At Pearl Harbor, the American fleet burned down at anchor. The fragile Swordfish destroyed an Italian heavy cruiser ...

The American airline Lockheed Martin joined the “FX” program for the creation of 6 generation fighters. As expected, this aircraft will replace the following modern aircraft in the air ...

Transport plane. A deep modification of the Il-76 transport aircraft - Il-76-MD-90A - was developed by the design bureau of the Aviastar aircraft plant (Ulyanovsk). The development of the aircraft as a whole has been completed ...

The main purpose - the detection and tracking of ground, surface and air targets of the enemy. Control strike and fighter aircraft for the destruction of detected targets. Can...

Until now, the basis of US military aircraft were manned aircraft, but a new congressional report showed that at the moment, 31% of US military aircraft are ...

About the "sores" of the famous American "Predator". This once widely publicized winged car does not arouse much admiration among military analysts and aviation experts. Why? The answer is - in ...

The air show on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia is held every two years in December, below is a photo report about the last year’s air show. The signal to the beginning of the show was the explosions of something pyrotechnic. Take ...

The world market for helicopters is one of the largest in both civilian and military areas. However, the requirements here are made by customers "serious." A vivid example of fierce competition ...

I bring to your attention a photo review dedicated to new or upgraded aircraft for various purposes, replenished the ranks of the domestic Air Force last year. Given the specifics of the topic, I did not set ...

We are celebrating a hundred years of Russian aviation. There is no reason for a feast: the Air Force is in prostration. The 5th mrad, which I often mention, "during the heyday of stagnation", at the DAU, held, as a rule, at the beginning ...

The device, designed to work in mountainous areas and lift heavy loads into the air, passed state certification in Beijing the day before and received a first category flight certificate ...

Every person who at least once got behind the wheel or picked up a car magazine knows that Ford is one of the most impressive car brands that have gone a long historical way.

30 of the last month of 2011, the first An-140-100 arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield, which will be used by the Russian Air Force. The nearest prospect is the renewal of the aircraft fleet ...

Being a supersonic long-range bomber bomber and one of the components of the national nuclear triad, the Tu-22М3 is one of the real examples of Russia's military might. Tu-22M3 is located ...

26 July, 1941, four Soviet fighters, the I-16, appeared in the sky above the Romanian port of Constanta. They made a couple of turns over the port and with a dive they bombed the storage tank located ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is an American armored attack aircraft, the main purpose of which is to combat enemy armored vehicles, as well as the destruction of various ground targets. Its ...

Spotter photos of Mi-35M combat helicopters (product 758) built for the Russian Air Force at Rostvertol in Rostov-on-Don have appeared on the websites russianplanes.net and aviaforum.ru, already ...

The AC-130 Specter / Spooky is a reworked version of the well-known Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft designed for fire support of reconnaissance and sabotage ...

For the past several decades, the basis of domestic fighter aviation has been made up of aircraft from the Sukhoi and Mikoyan design bureaus. However, this honorary "post" at one time with variable ...

The last few days have been very prolific with good news about our long-range aviation. December 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the first flight of the Tu-160 missile carrier. On the 19th took place ...

18 of this month, the supersonic strategic aircraft Tu-160 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. 30 years have passed since the first Tu-160 aircraft took off into the sky. 19 numbers held a solemn ...

The military department of the Soviet Union always treated with prejudice the new developments in the field of armaments, and only the successful use by Israel in 1982 of the UAV in combat conditions led the ...

The leading Indian airline, Hindustan Aeronautics, quite recently published on its official website some of the main characteristics of the aircraft being developed on the basis of the Russian 5 aircraft ...

The Defense Ministry of Norway has put into service the first helicopter in the antisubmarine version NH90 NFH. Thirteen helicopters are on the way to search for and destroy enemy submarines. On...