Humanity has long dreamed of individual aircraft, but only in the last century it was able to come closer to the realization of such desires. In the late forties, the original design ...

The US state of Florida, due to its geographical location and climate, is a very convenient place to house military bases, test centers and training grounds. First of all it is ...

At the Borisoglebsk aviation base, the Yak-130 practical training of the flight crews in the operation of combat training aircraft (UBS) continued in the course of investigating the causes of the emergency ...

Today it is expensive to fight. To fight with aviation is doubly expensive. Airplanes have become a real destroyer of the budgets of the leading world powers. For the money for which 1 was dropped in Vietnam ...

The pilots of the Russian Knights aerobatic team have long been welcome guests of any aviation festival. As part of the campaign "Service under the contract - Your choice!", Held in Rostov-on-Don, ...

Westland Whirlwind (Whirlwind) - British-made twin-engine fighter of the Second World War. This single-seat fighter was created by Westland Aircraft experts under ...

The British Air Force is already in the coming years waiting for a real rout. He will not be on the battlefield. Britain is simply unable to maintain its navy ....

In Soviet times, the design of the world's largest supersonic bomber Tu-160 worked several thousand designers for a decade. Today, to provide ...

At the very end of August 2017, the first photos of the prototype of the new American aircraft Bell V-280 Valor appeared on the network. This model is called the third generation convertiplane ....

In the first part, perhaps even too thoroughly, we examined the types of aircraft with which our Air Force and Luftwaffe approached the start of the war. In fact, the aircraft of both countries developed in one direction, ...

It is difficult to say where the development of modern aviation engineering will lead. But once the fifth generation took place, it means that in the race for the championship sooner or later the sixth one will appear ....

Naval Air Station Key West naval aviation base is located in the southwestern part of Florida. A naval base was established in the area to counter piracy in 1823. She was essentially ...

Today we can say that that terrible decline, in which our air forces found themselves after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was left behind. And the last 5-7 years we are seeing steady progress, if not ...

Currently, we, Russians, continue to fly on Boeing and Airbus, which form the basis of the fleet of domestic airlines. And at every step continues advertising "foreign" aircraft ....

A fair share of hurray-patriotism will never hurt when analyzing a review of promising domestic concepts of military equipment, especially when their parameters are at or significantly ...

After the liquidation of the Warsaw Pact Organization and the collapse of the USSR, Soviet military equipment and armament swept across the American polygons in a wide stream. Especially Americans were interested in the system ...

The heavily armed aircraft or ganships (owing their appearance and development - like many of today's weapons systems - to the bloody lessons of the Vietnam War) have always been something ...

It seems that the Russian military industrial complex plans to create a device that can finally correct the most important shortcoming of the Russian Navy - the lack of a target designation system. The most powerful Russian anti-ship in the world ...

In 80, the Eglin airbase was one of the largest American aviation test centers. In March, a prototype McDonnell Douglas F / ... arrived in 1981 for testing in a climate chamber.

During the recent international military-technical forum "Army-2017" a lot of statements were made on the topic of the further development of domestic weapons and equipment. Much attention was paid ...

While at the "Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunov "assembly of the first prototype of a deeply modernized strategic bomber-missile carrier is in full swing ...

Despite the efforts being made, the Americans did not manage to turn the tide in Vietnam. The use of sluggish strategic bombers B-52 was too expensive, not only in ...

In the early sixties, intensive testing of air-based cruise missiles was conducted at the Eglin airbase. The apotheosis of these tests was the operation "Blue Nose". 11 April 1960 year B-52 of ...

Before the advent of sensible alternatives, the creators of the first experimental aircraft often tried to use steam engines. However, such devices did not differ high ...