Aviation
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Rome. Airspace denied. Madrid. We intend to act within the framework of the established international legislation. Airspace denied Paris. The French government is extremely concerned about the current situation and intends to
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The fighter was misdiagnosed. Contrary to the verdicts of false doctors, the fighter is young, strong and perfectly healthy. Does not fly! Guided by unknown considerations about the beauty and correct layout of the fighter, the venerable public has long passed the F-35 a death sentence. Eagerly quoting opinions
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
So soft and pliable, this time she was harder than concrete walls. But the “Pike” was even stronger: tearing off, like skin, bits of the fuselage, it rushed under the water at a speed of 200 meters per second. Unable to withstand such a fierce pressure, the incompressible medium parted, letting the super-ammunition pass to its
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Modern combat aviation goes back to a common ancestor - A-5 "Vigilent", in the design of which such elements as were for the first time combined: "high-wing" scheme; fly-by-wire control system (ESDU); trapezoidal wing of medium aspect ratio and sweep; - rectangular in cross section
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
A bold hypothesis or an attempt to look into the future? When the Raptor remains the only combat-ready fifth generation fighter, and most tasks in modern wars are successfully solved by generation 4 aircraft, how timely are the dreams of generation 6? We have no clear idea of the appearance
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The world's largest aerospace museum, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, has a notable display area. Side by side, slightly turning the nasal air intakes towards each other, are two irreconcilable opponents: the American Phantom F-4 and the Soviet MiG-21. Eternal
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
A robot cannot harm a person or, by its inaction, allow harm to be done to a person. - A. Azimov, Three Laws of Robotics Isaac Asimov was wrong. Very soon, the electronic "eye" will take aim at the person, and the microcircuit will dispassionately order: "Fire to kill!" The robot is stronger
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Below were the bony ridges of the chains of the great Hindu Kush range, the "killer of the Hindu." Rows of rocky treeless mountains are strictly parallel to the main ridge. Artsybashev looked at the horizon. There, ahead, the main ridge of shining peaks should rise, and the onboard radar, glowing green, showed
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
If ours is so good and theirs is so bad, why are they so good and ours so bad? Articles about the problems and shortcomings of the F-35 are no longer perceived as they used to be. Instead of gloating, there is only dry irritation with the progress of work on the creation of fifth-generation domestic fighters
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The demonstration of the Yak-141 at the Farnborough Air Show became the “swan song” of a unique fighter. OKB im. Yakovleva did not receive a single order from either domestic or foreign customers. Potential customers did not see the need to purchase a VTOL aircraft. With all the advantages of the "vertical" does not
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
All week on the pages of "VO" they argue about the tactical bombers Su-34 and F-15E. Whose winged ship turned out to be cooler? The battle-hardened “Strike of the Eagle” or our “duckling” who plowed the whole of Syria and showed the whole world what a real air war is. Some aesthetes are convinced that the best are
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
In the midst of the war, the US Air Force completely abandoned camouflage. Instead of the traditional light tones (the color of the sky) on the underside of the wing and green paint on the top (to blend in with the ground), there is only a dazzling shine of aluminum. Only identification marks and a dark stripe have survived from the painting
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Britain rules the seas, but air is more important than water. In battles with the Luftwaffe, a superhero was born, who ground a good third of German aircraft in the sky in World War II. His name is “Supermarine Spitfire” (“Ardent”). It is curious that the creator of the legendary aircraft, aircraft designer Reginald Mitchell, is not
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
“You will never solve the problem if you think in the same way as those who created it.” The “real combat conditions” in which the aircraft-carrying cruiser operates compare favorably with the training ground in the Barents Sea. Mediterranean Sea. With good
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
This is the law of the airways: When we rise to the top, we look down. And day after day, the hot whistle of steel turbines worries us. Those who observe flights from the ground are worried about other issues. For example, how long can the combat mission of a fighter continue. Note that we are focusing on tactical
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
It took him eight minutes to fly over Israel from north to south (470 km). At that moment, the leading edge of the wing was heated to 250 ° C, and the fuel consumption was half a ton of kerosene per minute. An indestructible scout is scary. But worse is the unbreakable bomber. The only plane in the world
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Within the framework of the prevailing stereotype, the Hornet was recognized as a successful bomber, but a very mediocre fighter. The same applies to the modernized F / A-18E, which received the prefix "super."
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
After reaching the maximum speed, pull the handle towards you and set the lift angle to about 60 degrees. At a speed of 270 km / h on the device, smoothly press the plane with the handle into horizontal flight or turn with a roll of 15-20 degrees in the desired direction. The climb over the hill is about 1000 meters. Time
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The story is about an elementary error of the command, which threatened a waste of resources and almost cost the lives of many pilots. A story about missing holes and a mystery that means more than the obvious. Hidden meaning? Rather, a typical delusion inherent in human imperfection
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Junkers Story Ju-88A-4, wingspan - 20.08 m, takeoff weight - 12 tons. But is such a story worthy of the most sinister front-line bomber? infantry. Yes, it was a formidable plane. Length and
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The main weapon of Gripen is the adequacy of its creators. The art of cutting off obviously impossible requirements, focusing on real tasks and opportunities. According to the generally accepted theory, the 4th generation of fighter aircraft should be followed by the “fifth” with a prescribed set of certain
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The rapid development of aircraft construction in the thirties brought fame to the American firm Seversky. It was founded in 1928 by engineer and pilot Alexander Seversky who left Russia. The company of this Russian emigrant was mainly engaged in the development and production of amphibious aircraft
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
In July 2015, Airbus patented the design of the CONCORDE-2 aircraft, which, according to the project, should fly at a speed of 3,435 miles per hour (about 5500 km / h). "Extract" from patent information: It seems to be nothing unusual: well, a hypersonic passenger aircraft, well, a patent (how
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Fighting fan gumbai utiva. They could give signals, fan themselves, but on occasion, reflect an arrow or even a sword blow, because it was made of … iron! Pole arms that had no European counterparts were also gekken and jagara-mogara. Gekken had a point in the shape of a crow's beak and another in the shape of a
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
"1" Introduction The first experience of modern civil war has been accumulated, of course, in Afghanistan. And he immediately showed the insufficient effectiveness of aviation. In addition to the unpreparedness of the pilots and the shortcomings of tactics, the aircraft themselves did not correspond to the nature of the counter-guerrilla war. Supersonic
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
A convoy of cars was moving along the road leading to the test airfield, in the middle of which a platform with something bulky, carefully covered with a tarpaulin was crawling behind the tractor. Only by looking closely, it was possible to guess the contours of a small plane. The column turned onto a country road, then to the edge, there is a tractor
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
After the end of the Second World War, which radically changed the balance of power in the world, there was an increase in national liberation movements. The peoples of countries that had been colonies of European powers for a long time began to struggle for independence. In states that are not formally
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
Lightweight, simple and relatively inexpensive, the F-5 fighter clearly stands out among its counterparts in the US Air Force. American fighters of the second and third generations were distinguished by their large mass, design complexity and, as a result, high cost. Heavy machines
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
In addition to the United States, the creation of a specialized "anti-security" attack aircraft began in Argentina. The aircraft, named IA-58 "Pukara", was created according to the concept adopted in the OV-10 "Bronco". But it differed from it in the tail unit and more powerful small arms and cannon armament. IA-58
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The global war against "international terrorism" that began in the 21st century has greatly fueled interest in light "anti-insurgency" attack aircraft. In many countries, work has begun on the creation of new and adaptation for shock purposes of already existing training, light transport and
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
During the fighting in Vietnam, the American military leadership came to the conclusion that the jet supersonic combat aircraft created for the "big war" with the Soviet Union were ineffective against partisans operating in the jungle. The problem was partly solved with the help of those who remained in the ranks
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
In the 1930s, the leadership of the Air Forces of many countries adhered to the concept of creating a universal multipurpose biplane suitable for reconnaissance, bombing, and also use as an attack aircraft (in the USSR, such an aircraft was the R-5, created at the Polikarpov Design Bureau). UK on
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
During the Vietnam War, a unique type of specialized combat aircraft was created in the United States, the main task of which was to fight partisan formations, mainly at night. The concept of this armed aircraft, which received the name "gunship" (eng. Gunship
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
The formation of the appearance of the Chinese combat aircraft, the development of which began more than 30 years ago, was greatly influenced by the Vietnam War. The "protagonist" of this war on the part of the US Air Force was the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter of various modifications. Within the concept
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
In the 1950s and 1960s, the aviation of the United States and Kuomintang Taiwan violated the air border of the PRC many times. Chinese fighters have repeatedly risen to intercept intruders. There was a real air war over the Taiwan Strait, and in this situation, China was in dire need of a long-range radar aircraft
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
On October 30, 2014 in the "News" section of the "Military Review" there was a publication about the disaster in the United States, in Ventura County, California, of the Hawker Hunter MK.58 jet fighter. Taking off from the Point Mugu Air Force Base, the plane crashed to the ground at about 5:15 p.m. during the landing approach. As a result
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
After the defeat of Imperial Japan in World War II, the country under American occupation was prohibited from having its own armed forces. The Japanese Constitution adopted in 1947 proclaimed the renunciation of the creation of the armed forces and the right to wage war. However, in 1952
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
In 1977, the Maritime Self-Defense Forces began to receive the first P-3C Orion patrol aircraft, which were intended to replace the aging Japanese P-2J. The first three R-3Cs were manufactured by Lockheed, the next five were assembled in Japan from American components, and the remaining 92 were built and
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
To date, France has the second largest and most effective carrier-based combat aviation. "Charles de Gaulle" (FR.Charles de Gaulle, R91) - the flagship of the French naval forces, the only operating aircraft carrier of the French Navy, the first French surface combat ship with a nuclear
Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01
November 18, 2012 40 years have passed since the first landing on the deck of the Moskva helicopter carrier, the Yak-36M vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It was this date, November 18, 1972, which is considered to be the birthday of Russian carrier-based jet aircraft. In 1974, serial production began