The Kayaba Ka-1 is a Japanese reconnaissance gyroplane created during the Second World War. This aircraft was used as a close (including naval) reconnaissance aircraft, including ....

Not so long ago, naval aviation of the Russian Navy began to receive deck-based fighters of the MiG-29K family, intended to replace aging technology. At the same time, the command is already thinking about ...

Development of submarine-based aircraft in Japan in the pre-war years ...

Exactly 75 years ago, on December 7, 1942, the prototype of the P-63 Kingcobra fighter took off for the first time. Of the 3300 serial copies of this machine, 2300 were sent to the Soviet Union by ...

The operation in Syria, conducted by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the request of the Syrian government, allows to draw a number of conclusions. One of them concerns the further development of domestic long-range aircraft ...

The compound, which was subjected to powerful attacks by the enemy, flew over Hanover (Hannover) in the direction of Lüneburg. Passing over Schwerin (Schwerin), she continued on her way to Husum (Husum) ...

Simultaneously with the creation of the first Yokoshi underwater-based production aircraft E6Y1 in Japan, they began construction of the first aircraft carrier of a special construction - I-5 of the J1M project ...

In 60, the construction of anti-tank helicopters in Europe was very limited, which was determined both by the imperfection of the helicopters themselves and by the low characteristics of the complexes ...

Exactly 85 years ago, 1 December 1932 for the first time took off the prototype of the Heinkel Not-70 Blitz (Lightning) high-speed passenger aircraft - the first aircraft of this class in Europe ...

75 years ago, 1 December 1942 of the year, the first test launch of the ground catapult of the Fieleler Fi-103 projectile aircraft (aka A-2, aka FZG 76, aka V-1) took place, still ...

The proposed cycle of articles is intended for a wide circle of military and aviation history enthusiasts and reflects the stages of the emergence (during the First World War) and the development of a special class of hydroaviation ...

The idea to use submarines as carriers of seaplanes originated in the years of the First World War. By this time, seaplanes were actively used by fleets of many countries of the world (...

As part of the fifth generation fighter program, new results have been obtained. A few days ago, the first flight of a Su-57 prototype aircraft, equipped with a promising turbojet engine, took place ...

Currently, few people remember the first Western anti-tank guided missile Nord SS.10, adopted by the French army in 1955 ...

After the end of World War II, in an effort to quickly reduce their backlog in technology, the French armed forces began to hastily create new aircraft for ...

The nomenclature of ammunition for carrier-based aviation of the Russian Navy has been replenished with a new missile. According to the national press, the MiG-29KR aircraft will now be able to use ...

At the end of the 60s, the F-100, F-105 and F-4 supersonic fighter-bombers, which were optimized for the delivery of tactical nuclear charges, formed the basis of the strike power of tactical aviation of the US Air Force ...

Unrecognized Rhodesia was forced to use outdated foreign-made military equipment or create the necessary samples on their own. One of its own developments was the aviation ...

The growing need for reservation systems for helicopters protecting crew members and passengers from small arms fire is driven by recent and current conflicts in Iraq, Syria and the Middle East ...

In the post-war period, with the advent of the “reactive era”, combat aircraft with piston engines remained in service in the United States and Great Britain for a long time ...

As is known, in the Anglo-American Air Force, which committed raids on Germany during the Second World War, there was a certain "division of labor" ...

In the context of modern high-tech war, characterized by the large-scale use of various means of aerospace attack, especially such as “invisible planes” and ...

New military transport aircraft IL-112 is preparing to make the first flight. Developed for the army and the average turbojet IL-276 ...

Cierva W.9 is a British experimental light auxiliary helicopter developed by engineers of the Cierva Autogiro Company in the first half of the 1940-s.