Winged battleships
During the war, the concept was born, perhaps, of the most unusual special-purpose aircraft - “ganships”. At the end of 1964 of the year in Indochina, the war correspondent for the Stars and Stripes newspaper saw ...
F-35 again
The epic with the "cheap" version of the fifth-generation fighter is delayed. Undoubtedly, these planes will be built. But not all, not immediately and for where much more money than promised. Regular problems with ...
Blue angels
“Blue Angels” (eng. Blue Angels) - aerobatics group of the US Navy. The group was created in 1946 year. In 1950, the group was temporarily disbanded, and its pilots ...
Weserflug P.1003 / 1
This vertical takeoff and landing aircraft project - VTOL (Vertical TakeOff and Landing) - from Weserflug is dated 1938. The aircraft fuselage is very traditional and equipped with a standard ...
Mi-35
The Mi-35 helicopter is a multipurpose attack, "flying infantry fighting vehicle" developed at the Mil Design Bureau. This helicopter is an export version of the multipurpose attack helicopter known in Russia ...
Piasecki X-49A Speedhawk
In the 1960 year, one of the oldest helicopter companies in the United States - Piasecki Aircraft - in its own way begins the program Pathfinder. From the outset, the 16H-1 prototype was created by ...
From 2030, the F-22 will start giving way to sixth-generation fighters.
Today, the Aeronautical System Center of the United States Department of Defense at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) announced a request for information (CRFI - capability request for ...
X-48B: eighty flights, invaluable data
A joint team of NASA and the Boeing company completed the first stage of the flight tests of the reduced model X-48B, flying wing, in the Dryden Flight Research Center ...
Henschel Hs Project 75
The project is still today the actual scheme of a combat aircraft, which in the pre-war years served as a pretext for intense controversy in various countries. Some specimens like ...
Comparing Dry T50 with F-22
In response to a request from journalists to compare the PAK FA fighter with the American F-22 Raptor, created ten years ago, the chief designer of the aircraft, Alexander Davydenko, said: “The main functions ...
Atomic aviation: into the future from the past
The experience gained in the 50-70-E years of the twentieth century, still useful in the XXI century. It may seem strange that nuclear power, firmly rooted on earth, in the hydrosphere and even in space, is not ...
The territory of the "Dragon"
Ekranoplanes are unique aircraft. In terms of efficiency, they are an order of magnitude superior to aircraft and ships, which makes them indispensable in civil and, especially, in military ...
Rival Super Hercules from the southern hemisphere
The Brazilian company Embraer, which has been creating the KC-2007 military transport aircraft since 390, unexpectedly found several partners over the past month who will take part in this ...
Achtung: plus plus in the air!
The air battle of the XXI century Su-27 and its numerous heirs cannot fight the “Raptor”. We need either our own "Raptor" or a new reincarnation of the undeservedly forgotten MiG-31. Russian...
Naval aviation: how to replace the old aircraft?
Aviation of the Russian Navy is in critical condition. The situation is particularly difficult in the Black Sea Fleet aviation, which may lose most of its aircraft and helicopters already ...
Chinese Air Force. China introduced the fighter J-10 (Jian-10) to potential buyers
On April 13, the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China invited military representatives from 47 countries to an exclusive show performed by the “First of August” flight squadron of the 24 Fighter Division of the Air Force ...
By screws
Sikorsky will create a versatile high-speed helicopter The American company Sikorsky decided to continue the evolution of its high-speed X2 helicopter by creating two prototypes ...
Fighters worth their weight in gold
Difficulties in the implementation of the fifth generation of the American Aviation Program "He who possesses the advantage must attack under the threat of losing this advantage." The old rule of chess game ...
Chasing the United States
The Russian aircraft will be able to compete with overseas Predators and Lightning 29. On January 2010, for the first time, the experienced Russian fighter T-50 of the Sukhoi Design Bureau took off. Flying a new car ...
Poland offers a new version of the modernization of Russian-made helicopters
The Warsaw Institute of Technology Air Force (ITWL) demonstrated its version of the cockpit modernization for the Mi-24 helicopter and the Mi-8 / 17 multipurpose helicopter. Package for Mi-24PL ...
Sweden. Big aircraft of a small country
While France is trying to export Rafale, Sweden is showing the world how a small nation can create its own fighter and even export it. Prototype fighter ...
Su-27, Flanker-B frontline fighter (Marginal)
By developing a promising fighter of a new generation in the P.O. Dry started in the fall of 1969. It was necessary to take into account that the purpose of the aircraft being created is the struggle for supremacy in ...
Fifth generation fighter: what is India choosing?
The development of the fifth generation fighter has become one of the main themes of cooperation between Russia and India. The joint creation of a new aircraft, which was discussed during the recent visit to India of the Minister ...
The Phantom Against the Iranian Threat (Al Jazeera, Qatar)
The military called the fifth-generation American combat vehicle "stealth fighter." In the Middle East, F-35 is dubbed the “ghost”. The United States and Israel have signed a weapons supply contract, and after ...