Aviation 2024, November

Big and Small This winter, the Russian Aerospace Forces received the first production-produced Su-57 fighter, opening a new chapter in their modern history. This could have happened before, but the very first of the built production fighters crashed in December 2019 while passing

The carrier force led by the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier (of the Nimitz class) left the base in San Diego on the Pacific coast and headed across the Pacific Ocean to the Middle East. protect US interests in

Technological demonstrator of a promising airborne radar with an active phased array "Zhuk-AME". A 50% longer range will be realized thanks to the advanced technology for manufacturing transmit-receive modules based on a low-temperature co-fired ceramic substrate. Thanks at times

Sparrowhawk from General Atomics. Source: thedrive.com A drone that could die History evolves in cycles. More recently, combat drones have appeared in the armies of the world, the main task of which is to save the lives of military personnel. The first drones came to aviation. First, the conditional value of life

A variant of the appearance of the LAW ship. Graphics US Navy In the United States, work continues on the promising program for the development of "light amphibious assault ship" Light Amphibious Warship (LAW). Its goal is to create a landing craft of reduced size and displacement, capable of transporting people and equipment, as well as

The most massive, the most controversial from the moment of its appearance, which went through all the main battles of the aviation of the imperial fleet - this is all about our hero. Indeed, this is a very controversial plane. But this is not the fault of the designer's idea, not the orders of the fleet aviation command, but the fatal confluence

Currently, the Russian aircraft industry is developing a strategic bomber-missile carrier "Perspective Long-Range Aviation Complex" (PAK DA). The construction of the first prototype is already reported, and in the near future it will be tested. However, complete and detailed

Early draft G.20. The helicopter is still capable of carrying bombs and has an upper firing point. At the very end of the thirties, the French naval forces ordered the development of a promising helicopter that could be used for reconnaissance, patrolling and combating

Oddly enough, the United States is also thinking about what will happen in 20-30 years in terms of weapons. And not only because many projects, for which billions fly away, end in nothing. Simply because, indeed, technology is not eternal, and sooner or later it will have to be changed either to a more modern one

Ka-52 / © Russian Helicopters In addition to it, only a few countries in the world can offer something in this regard, including the United States and China. In recent years, Russia has developed two conditionally new helicopters - Mi-28NM and Ka-52M. In 2020 source

Rocket S-13B at the MAKS-2021 exposition. Photo TASS For several decades, Soviet and Russian military aircraft have been actively using unguided missiles of the C-13 "Tulumbas" family. At the same time, the development of the family does not stop, and in recent years several new products have been created. So

MiG-31K with missiles "Dagger" - the first hypersonic air-based complex in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces Several days ago it became known that our country is developing a promising long-range hypersonic missile for arming strategic

Three variants of convertiplanes on the HSVTOL platform American company Bell Textron Inc. has extensive experience in the field of vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Right now it is being used in the development of a new concept project for a tiltrotor family with a number of characteristic features. On

IL-80 air command post. Photo by Wikimedia Commons A few days ago, domestic media reported the start of construction of the first air command post (VKP) based on the Il-96-400M aircraft. This machine is intended to support the activities of the highest military and political leadership

One of those aircraft of the Second World War, about which we can safely say "with a difficult fate." In reality, this plane could not take place at all, or become completely different, because it was conceived as anything, but not as a naval patrol attack aircraft. And to be very specific - how

The Air Self-Defense Forces have 12 combat squadrons equipped with fighters capable of solving air defense missions. These squadrons are operatively subordinate to the regional air command and are distributed approximately equally among them. For a country with an area of 377,944 km², Japan has

The Ka-62 is a civilian version of the long-suffering Kamov's B-60 helicopter, which was later transformed into the Ka-60 Kasatka. The Kamov Design Bureau began developing a new military helicopter B-60 back in 1984. For the design bureau, this was the first rotary-wing machine made on a single-rotor

General view of the layout for MAKS-2021 At the last MAKS-2021 air show, the Russian United Engine Corporation (UEC) presented a number of promising developments in different directions. One of the most interesting exhibits of her stand was a model of a hybrid power plant (GSU)

On February 29, 2020, in the capital of Qatar, a peace agreement was signed between the United States and the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation). The key provisions of this treaty are the following points: - The United States must refrain from the use of force; - The Taliban must lay down their arms and stop terrorist and

The only image of an F-X aircraft. Perhaps the real fighter will look different. Japan plans to create its own next-generation fighter F-X, which in the future will replace some of the existing technology. Design work started at the end of last year, and the first flight is still a long way off

Photo © Michael JerdevNew International Aviation and Space Salon in a good way stands out from the previous ones. At least when it comes to ordinary aviation enthusiasts. Earlier exhibitions have become something like "the attraction of unfulfilled hopes." MAKS-2019 stood apart, at which

From a bird flying through the air, no sign of its path remains, but the light air, beaten by its wings and dissected by the speed of movement, passed by the moving wings, and after that there was no sign of passing over it. Book of the Wisdom of Solomon 5:11 Alternative combat technique. Hardly

Test aircraft Lockheed Duo-4. Photo Oldmachinepress.com In the early decades of aviation, the choice of power plant was one of the main problems. In particular, the issue of the optimal number of engines was relevant. The single-engine aircraft was simpler and cheaper to manufacture and operate, but

Render of the SR-72 hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft Many countries around the world have developed or continue to develop projects of hypersonic aircraft. IN THE USA

The prototype of the AIM-68C missile in the late fifties was in service with the US Air Force, the MB-1 / AIR-2 Genie air-to-air missile. She carried a nuclear warhead, but did not have a means of guidance, which limited combat capabilities. In the early sixties, work began on a homing missile for

D-21A on a transport trolley. Photo US Air Force In the early sixties, the CIA and the US Air Force ordered Lockheed to develop and build a promising reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle with high performance characteristics. The task was successful

The creation of turbojet engines (turbojet engines) for modern combat aircraft is a technology that is not available to every country. Only the leading technological powers have the ability to design and manufacture turbojet engines, since this requires advanced design schools

The first Orion / Pacer complex handed over to the armed forces The Russian industry has mastered the production of Orion reconnaissance and strike UAVs for our army and is now preparing to fulfill orders from third countries. In the near future, the production of such

Lord Beaverbrook said that "We won the Battle of Britain with the Spitfires, but without the Hurricanes we would have lost." A matter of taste. Personally, I do not like this more than controversial device at all, but … In spite of everything, this plane left in history such

It's not a secret for anyone that in the American state not everything is beautiful with aviation. Or vice versa, everything goes according to plan. Instead of new developments of the fifth generation, the production and re-release of aircraft of the fourth generation continues. Like in Russia. How our method was written off. Today we will think about

Paying attention to the ships of the Second World War, willy-nilly, you come across planes. Indeed, almost all self-respecting ships (we do not take into account floating aircraft carriers) were carried by planes until a certain moment. A certain moment is before its death or until the moment the plane

The first F-15EX in the assembly stage, July 2020 The development processes of the tactical aviation of the US Air Force are leading to interesting results. Despite the presence of two fighters of the current 5th generation and a project of a fundamentally new aircraft, the Pentagon intends to purchase a large number of modernized machines

Passions in previous materials about the new prototype on our pages flared up serious. Unfortunately, many readers are unable to understand the difference between a test mock and a real aircraft. And ahead of time they began (as always, however) to celebrate the victory in a hurray-style. Though

The news of the demonstration of a new Russian aircraft at MAKS, supported by photographs leaked to the Internet and a video from Rostec, stirred up the world's aviation circles. For a long time, you must admit, there were no new products, so the video "came in" and caused a very violent reaction. This is good, because you yourself know

General view of the "Lancet" In recent years, the so-called. loitering ammunition - special unmanned aerial vehicles capable of attacking targets with a direct hit. Several such products have been created in our country, and they are already demonstrating their potential. So, two

Guest from the Past There have been attempts (and, I must say, not unsuccessfully) to use the carrier aircraft for the air launch of other winged vehicles in different years. If we talk about the USSR, then one of the brightest representatives of this direction is the "Link" project. TB-1 was initially used as carriers, and then

Something went wrong. Obviously not, because even the foreign press started talking about the fact that the F-35 is "not cake." colleagues, not so long ago

It's time to hunt Ukraine for a long time hoped for rapid economic growth, which did not happen, and then - for Western partners, who, as it turned out, were not very eager to help Ukraine. First, Joe Biden reduced the amount of military aid to Ukraine, which they wanted to allocate under Trump, but how

So, the Americans were right: it's a layout after all. Which, as we are promised, should fly in 2023. But we will look and talk about it in 2023. It is clear for now: a mock-up, which will not fly in the near future, because this is clearly associated with certain problems. However, first things first

While we were talking about promising defense systems that will 100% protect our promising PAK DA bombers, which will appear in the future by 2030, the United States assembled the first two copies of the newest strategic bomber B-21 aka B-3, aka “Raider ". Index" 21 "is