Summer 1942. After the defeat of the PQ-17 convoy, the British command nevertheless decided to attend to, if not gaining superiority at sea and in the air in the northern direction, then at least bring the case ...

On November 6, 1929, on the eve of the next anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the Junkers G-38, the largest in ...

In May, 1996, the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, announced it had received a new exhibit. The Pentagon and the defense industry have transferred ...

When they talk about the combat use of British V-series bombers, they usually legitimately remember the Falklands War in which the Volcanoes distinguished themselves, but many have not heard of what ...

The Popular Mechanics correspondent received a rare opportunity to go on a flight on the stealth bomber B-2 and become a witness to a training operation. Moreover, he was allowed to the control levers, and ...

The work on the project "Advanced Aviation Complex of Frontal Aviation" is nearing its completion. Representatives of the military and aviation industry have already called the time ...

The week before last, 20 in October 2016, a short news article on the development of the lung program was published in the translation materials of the Military Parity information and analytical resource ...

Ki-98 - the project of a multi-purpose fighter of the Japanese company Mansyu. Work on the creation of this aircraft began on the order of the High Command of the Army Aviation of Japan. Ki-98 was supposed to be ...

On November 1, the Aerospace Exhibition Airshow China 2016 kicked off in Zhuhai. This event is traditionally one of the main platforms for demonstrating the latest achievements of the aviation industry ...

After defeating the Midway Atoll in June 1942 and cost Japan the loss of 4 heavy aircraft carriers, 248 aircraft and the best pilots of carrier-based aviation, the Japanese fleet in the Pacific ...

In parallel with the development of the next generation NAP equipment for the Air Force, the Marine Corps is acquiring technology for the existing funds in order to enhance the NAP capabilities. Corps purchased for their ...

Reflections and disputes in the defense departments of Russia and the United States regarding the replacement of aging Su-25 and A-10A / C attack aircraft continue to this day. Initially, this question is very densely puzzled ...

For the first time, the 16 September 1975 prototype of the long-range interceptor MiG-31 fighter - E-155MP (831 board) got all the constructive and conceptual "roots" widely ...

Probably, it is strange to see a photo of the well-known fighter, on which the Hero of the Soviet Union Pokryshkin flew three times, under such a title. But the fact is that "Airacobra" really came to us ...

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy strategic military transport aircraft is currently the largest US Air Force in its class. Until 1982 of the year (until the creation of the An-124 "Ruslan"), he ...

A unique heavy transport aircraft, a "descendant" of the first Soviet strategic bomber 3M, and with a rounded body container on top of the fuselage, thanks to which it was called ...

In the middle of October, an important event happened in the history of the Air and Space Forces of Russia: the “calling card” of our military aviation, the Russian Knights aerobatics team, received four new ...

In October, the 1961 of the year in the 642-th Guards Aviation Regiment of fighters-bombers of the Odessa Military District (Martynovka airfield in the Nikolaev region) ended with military tests ...

With the introduction of modern air defense technology, the destructive potential of which can fall into the hands of even non-state structures, the most powerful air forces of the world should ...

30 July 1966, another test flight of a prospective unmanned reconnaissance vehicle Lockheed D-21A ended with an accident. When separated from the aircraft carrier M-21 apparatus hit his keel ....

Developed at the beginning of the sixties, the supersonic reconnaissance aircraft A-12 should have been distinguished by the highest flight characteristics capable of providing an effective solution to the ...

While the US Air Force recently announced the initial combat readiness of the “basic” capabilities of Block 3i, most of the limitations and shortcomings of the F-35A in the Block 3i configuration, stated in my ...

October 10 1907 for the first time flew into the air the plane REP-1 - one of the first more or less successful airplanes designed in Europe, and the world's first aircraft equipped with a joystick. WITH...

84 a year ago, 7 of October 1932, for the first time, flew into the air of the Stipa-Caproni, perhaps one of the funniest aircraft in the history of aviation ....

The Syrian opposition will receive man-portable air defense systems, and the Russian videoconferencing system will begin to suffer significant losses. Talk about this for a long time in foreign media. The most odious western ...

Anti-aircraft missile systems pose a particular danger to military aircraft, because of which it needs appropriate means of protection. Over the past few decades, was created ...

Exactly 115 years ago, October 3 1901, an unsuccessful test of an aircraft created by one of the predecessors of the Wright brothers - 65-year-old Austrian engineer Wilhelm took place ...

The prospects for UAVs are very broad. In principle, their use as carriers of certain types of nuclear weapons is not excluded. Experience is available, although not very successful ....

Just over a year ago, on May 9, near Seville, the military transport aircraft Airbus A2015M Atlas fell. The beauty and pride of the Airbus concern, the fruit of an ambitious program designed to show everything ...

Planar AFAR have significant advantages in weight and size characteristics compared with other solutions. At times, the mass and thickness of the sheet AFAR decreases. This allows you to use ...

I would like to initially say that the media hype often doesn’t always reflect the real state of affairs in such difficult issues as export tactical supplies ...

A weapon that, as we all hope, will never be set in motion, evokes a special relationship with itself, akin to holy trembling. If an order arrives, this plane will open the flaps in the lower part ...