The refined T-50 prototype takes off at the beginning of 2011.
The second flight prototype of the fifth-generation T-50 aircraft will take to the air at the start of the 2011 of the year after testing all the systems, President of the United Aircraft Building ...
Gift to pilots
The transfer of four Su-34 front-line bombers to Russian air forces will be held at the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO) at the end of December. This is the final batch ...
Harrier fighter: from the fearless fighter to the last flight
The British Air Force fighter "Harrier" after 40 years of service was removed from service, as a result of cuts in defense spending. The aircraft, put into service in 1969, noted his resignation ...
Winged battleship
Is it possible to cross a tank with an airplane? For many years, this idea itself seemed absurd. However, in the end, all the same, we found, in the pre-war USSR, specialists who managed to solve such a “technical ...
Cemetery abandoned military aircraft
The most expensive, and possibly the largest in the world, army cemetery for old equipment is the US Air Force Base Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, or The Boneyard, as locals call this base ....
The return of "humpback"
Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant is going to resume production of the Su-25UB. Their construction was begun in the last years of the USSR and ceased in 90, and now these planes can not only ...
Su-17 bomber and fighter
Projects and first copies of prototype jet aircraft with variable wing geometry appeared as early as the Second World War: in our country, the project of such an aircraft was developed by VV Shevchenko, ...
What will receive the Russian Air Force
In the coming 10 years, the Russian Air Force will acquire more than 1,5 thousands of new aircraft and upgrade more than 400 machines of old construction. This was announced on December 1 by the deputy commander in chief ...
Air forces of the Russian Federation will have 1500 helicopters and airplanes
By 2020, the government wants to purchase more than 1500 military manned aircraft for the army. According to RIA Novosti, Sadofiev, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the RF Air Force, spoke about this. "Total...
Alone in the sky is not a warrior
29 January 2010, Honored Test Pilot of Russia, Colonel Sergey Leonidovich Bogdan raised to the sky "a promising aviation complex of front-line aviation", he is also a T-50 fighter, ...
Compare the DPRK Air Force and South Korea
In connection with the new tension of the situation, I want to analyze the ratio of the armed forces of Kazakhstan and the DPRK. The Air Force of the Republic of Korea is not very large in numbers, but very modern and in good ...
Tu-95 "Bear"
Tu-95 (product "B", according to NATO codification: Bear - "Bear") is a Soviet turboprop strategic bomber-missile carrier, the fastest propeller-driven aircraft that has become one of the symbols ...
A completely different aircraft design was proposed.
An international duet of engineers proposed to revise the traditional design of aircraft in terms of fuel efficiency. Jeffrey Spedding from the University of Southern California (USA) ...
Fighter F-35 has become cheaper
The US Department of Defense has changed the terms of the contract with Lockheed Martin, which implies the supply of X-NUMX F-30 Lightning II fighters, reports Lenta.ru. Under the terms of the new agreement, the military must ...
Project attack aircraft PZL-230F "Scorpio". Poland
Work on the creation of this seemingly very exotic combat aircraft began in 1990. The requirements of the Polish Air Force included the development of a universal combat vehicle designed for ...
PAK FA: the test of the sky
The head of the Sukhoi holding, Mikhail Pogosyan, said that the second promising aviation complex of front-line aviation (PAK FA) will start flying by the end of the year. "The first flight copy made 40 flights, in ...
Russian pilots have mastered the modernized MiGs
The pilots of the Kursk airbase of the Russian Air Force have successfully mastered the MiG-29SMT fighters, which were previously planned to be supplied to the Algerian Air Force, an official representative told Interfax-AVN ...
China is developing a new version of the fighter J-10
The Chengdu Aerospace J-10 fighter was first shown at the Zhuhai Airshow in 2008, and significant progress has been made in the development of the program since then. Evolution ...
The second generation 5 fighter will begin flying by the end of the 2010 of the year.
The second flight copy of the promising front-line aviation complex (PAK FA) will begin flights by the end of 2010, said the head of the Sukhoi corporation Mikhail Pogosyan. According to him, ...
Heavenly heavyweight
Several years ago the specialists of the Metaprocess company were given a task in the field of logistics. It was necessary to deliver a 600-ton hydrocracking reactor to the Ryazan region, ...
The main trends of improving the technical equipment of aviation of the Air Force
A special feature of the Russian Air Force is that they must provide the ability to solve combat missions in virtually the entire known range of physiographic and climatic conditions, day and night, ...
At the speed of reason
The story of how skillful people broke all the rules and created the most amazing high-tech weapons in the world. The American generals missed everything. Shortly before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor ...
November 17 was a bad day for US military aircraft
November 17 was a day memorable for world military aviation, writes Aviation Week. Firstly (and this is confirmed by Lockheed Martin), on one of the main bulkheads of the airframe F-35, which ...
Eurocopter continues flight tests of the helicopter demonstrator X3
Eurocopter continues flight tests of the X3 demonstrator as part of the H3 (Hybrid Helicopter) high-speed hybrid long-range helicopter program. After...