Aviation
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India In this country there is a paradoxical situation, there is a very significant number of modern aircraft to be based on aircraft carriers, in the absence of the latter. The Indian Navy is in service with 15 MiG-29K / KUB carrier-based fighters purchased in 2004. These planes will
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The tradition of massively painting planes black appeared during the Second World War. It was assumed that this would make it difficult for the enemy to detect at night, this applies both to night bombers and to those who were supposed to fight them - night fighters
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In 1933, in the UK, based on the Fairy Queen biplane, the first unmanned, radio-controlled reusable aerial vehicle was created, called the H.82B Queen Bee. H.82B Queen Bee It was then that the era of drones began. Subsequently, this device
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Accumulating and developing the experience of waging local wars, by the beginning of the 60s, the US Air Force command paid serious attention to the low effectiveness of traditional tactics of using aviation, especially when operating against ground targets in small armed clashes and conducting anti-guerrilla warfare
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By the beginning of the 90s, the Russian fleet had 2 air divisions, 23 separate aviation regiments, 8 separate aviation squadrons, and the 1st air group. They included: 145 Tu-22M2 and M3.67 Tu-142.45 Il-38.223 Ka-27, Ka-25 and Mi-14.41 Ka-29. More than 500 combat aircraft and
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The very first airfield appeared in Mojave in 1935 for the needs of local mines, where they mined silver and gold. During World War II, the airfield was nationalized and turned into an auxiliary airbase, where pilots from the Marine Corps practiced cannon firing techniques. After in 1961
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Using helicopters UH-1 "Iroquois" in Southeast Asia, the Americans came to the conclusion that with all their many advantages, this machine is of little use for use as a fire support helicopter. The Iroquois was too vulnerable to small arms fire and in particular
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The Boeing 707 is a four-engine passenger airliner designed in the early 1950s. One of the first jet passenger airliners in the world, along with the British DH-106 Comet, the Soviet Tu-104 and the French Sud Aviacion Caravelle. The prototype 367-80 made its maiden flight on July 15, 1954
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Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in California, USA. It was named after US Air Force test pilot Glen Edwards
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Air command posts are intended to control strategic forces in the event of a breakdown of ground command posts and to withdraw the country's top leadership from attack in the event of a nuclear conflict. The first such aircraft appeared in the United States, these were specialized machines, with
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As of the beginning of 2012, the number of personnel of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces was about 43,700 people. The aircraft fleet numbers about 700 aircraft and helicopters of the main types, of which the number of tactical and multipurpose fighters is about 260 units, light
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In the mid-40s, Douglas began work on the creation of an aircraft to replace the Dauntless, which had shown itself well in battles - later historians ranked it among the best carrier-based dive bombers of the Second World War
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The experience of the successful Douglas A-20 was a feat of the Douglas Aircraft Company to create an improved aircraft that would combine the characteristics of a day attack aircraft and a medium bomber. The plane was supposed to replace not only the A-20, but also medium bombers
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The most famous American combat aircraft of the 1960-1980s, the name of which has long been a household name for all fighters of the US Air Force and Navy. The world's first truly multipurpose supersonic fighter. Was the same symbol of the Cold War as the strategic
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Sweden was and remains one of the few countries in the world capable of independently creating first-class aviation technology. The combat aircraft of this Scandinavian country have always been distinguished by some kind of "zest"; they cannot be confused with the machines of the same type from other countries. There are enough similar friends in the world
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The Iranian air force is considered an independent branch of the armed forces, which also includes air defense forces. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) also has its own Air Force. The Air Force has 12 air bases, including ten
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In the late 60s, the United States began designing a long-range carrier-based interceptor to replace the F-4 Phantom-2. In the final of the competition were projects McDonnell Douglas and Grumman. The McDonnell-Douglas firm had a fixed-wing design, and Grumman's wing sweep changed
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Aircraft R-51 "Mustang" during the Second World War were used almost everywhere. In Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, the aircraft was primarily known as an escort fighter due to its long range. In England, "Mustangs" were used as interceptors
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The LOCKHEED T-33A two-seater trainer aircraft is one of those long-lived pilots that began the careers of several generations of pilots. It was based on the F-80 Shooting Star first-generation jet fighter, but managed
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The RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV program was launched in May 1995, when the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical (TRA) project was declared the winner in the competition for the best UAV under the Tier II + program. The competition lasted 6 months, five firms - applicants took part in it. New drone among
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At the time of the German attack on the USSR, our aviation was armed with two types of aircraft guns: 20-mm ShVAK (Shpitalny-Vladimirova large-caliber aviation), the design of which was in many respects similar to the 7.62-mm ShKAS aircraft machine gun and 23-mm. VYa (Volkova-Yartseva) .20 mm ShVAK cannon
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Bell UH-1 Iroquois is an American multipurpose helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter Textron, also known as Huey. This is one of the most famous and mass-produced aircraft in the history of helicopter engineering. The history of the UH-1 began in the mid-fifties, when it was announced
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July 8, 2013 marks the 65th anniversary of the first flight of the Il-28 jet bomber. The creation of an aircraft of this class became possible due to the fact that in 1947 in the USSR, a reliable, with a large resource, English turbojet engine with a centrifugal compressor was launched into licensed mass production
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Created in the late 1950s by Lockheed, the P-3 Orion BPA (base patrol aircraft) aircraft belongs to those aircraft that are considered to be "eternal". Its progenitor appeared in 1957, when the L- 188 Electra - one of the first aircraft in the United States with a turboprop
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Despite attempts to simplify and reduce the cost of the strike "Mirage" 5, it remained too expensive, complex and vulnerable to use it as a massive low-altitude attack aircraft designed to provide air support for ground forces. In 1964, the headquarters of the French Air Force
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In 1940, the Su-2 (BB-1) bomber, designed by Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, was put into production. This aircraft was created as part of the Ivanov program, which implied the creation of a single-engine, mass multipurpose aircraft capable of performing the functions of a reconnaissance and light
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After the end of World War II, the French had to rebuild the fleet and naval aviation from scratch. France received four military-built aircraft carriers on lease from the United States and Great Britain. Ships, mostly obsolete, transferred to France by the Allies and received as reparations
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In the early 1920s, a discussion broke out among the aircraft designers of the young Soviet republic about what aircraft should be built from. The abundance of forests in the USSR, it seemed, should have led to the conclusion that Soviet aircraft should be made of wood. But there were among the Soviet aircraft designers and those
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There is much in common between these two aircraft, both of them appeared at the height of the Cold War, becoming part of the national air defense system for many years. At the same time, for a number of reasons, they failed to displace other aircraft used as fighter-interceptors in this field. Aircraft were created
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In 1967, ten years after the start of production, export supplies of the specialized Su-7B fighter-bomber in the export modification Su-7BMK began. The planes were supplied both to the Warsaw Pact allies and to the "developing countries of a socialist orientation." By
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With the liquidation of N.S. Khrushchev of assault aviation as a class, writing off the existing piston Il-10M to scrap metal and refusing to release the unparalleled Il-40 jet attack aircraft, this niche was occupied by the MiG-15 and MiG-17 jet fighters. These aircraft had quite powerful cannon armament and
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In 1982, at the time of the outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon, the Syrian Air Force had Su-20 fighter-bombers, as well as one squadron of the latest Su-22M at that time. From the first days of the war, these aircraft were actively used for bombing Israeli positions. ten
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By the mid-60s of the last century, the Israeli aviation industry had reached a level of development at which it became possible to serially build its own aircraft. In 1966, IAI (Israeli Aircraft Industries) began designing a light transport and passenger aircraft with
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Unlike many other facilities of the US Air Force, closed or mothballed after the end of World War II, the demand for the Eglin airbase and the nearby training ground only increased in the post-war period. In the 50s, after the Air Force Armament Center moved to Eglin, at a nearby training ground
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Eglin airbase in the 50s of the last century became one of the main test centers of the US Air Force. In Florida, they not only tested aircraft and missile weapons, but also tested very unusual aircraft. In mid-1955, the airbase employees and the local population were surprised
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In the early sixties at the Eglin airbase, intensive tests of air-launched cruise missiles were carried out. The apotheosis of these trials was Operation Blue Nose. On April 11, 1960, a B-52 from the 4135th Strategic Wing, taking off in Florida, headed for the North Pole, carrying two
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Despite the efforts made, the Americans did not manage to turn the tide in Vietnam. The use of the slow B-52 strategic bombers was too expensive, not only in terms of operation. In the late 60s, in the sky of Indochina, they were opposed by 85 and 100-mm anti-aircraft guns
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Il-2 attack aircraft proved to be a powerful means of destroying enemy personnel, equipment and fortifications. Due to the presence of powerful built-in small arms and cannon weapons, a wide range of suspended aircraft weapons and armor protection, the Il-2 was the most advanced aircraft
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The American state of Florida, due to its geographical location and climate, is a very convenient place for the deployment of military bases, test centers and proving grounds. First of all, this applies to airfields and training grounds for the aviation of the Navy and the Marine Corps. Of the 10 operating in the United States
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After the end of the Cold War, US defense spending in the 1990s underwent significant cuts. This affected not only the scale of arms purchases and new developments, but also led to the elimination of a number of military bases in the mainland and outside the United States. The functions of those bases that succeeded