Aviation 2024, November

In the coming month, Washington plans to launch the X-37B UAV for the second time. The device can stay in orbit for up to 9 months and can theoretically attack ground targets from space. According to military experts, this is the first step towards creating military robots capable of conducting combat operations in space. UAV

The Su-34 multifunctional front-line bomber has successfully passed the second and final stage of state flight tests. In the near future, based on the results of the tests carried out, a corresponding act will be signed and the aircraft will officially be adopted by the Russian Air Force, it is reported

The Sukhoi aircraft building company ranked second in the world in terms of the number of multifunctional fighters produced for export over the past 10 years

On the fronts of the war for the future of the American fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet, sluggish skirmishes continue. Having achieved some success in Turkey and in the Far East, Washington decided to take a risky step: to move the plane to India. This, it would seem, is facilitated by the lifting of the embargo on supplies

Your eyes do not deceive you: the wings of this plane are slanted and rotated 60 degrees in relation to the fuselage. Oblique Wing AD-1 is the strangest aircraft ever built by NASA. But why was it made that way? The aircraft was designed and built by the Flight Research

In the second half of the 1950s, the Mikoyan Design Bureau began work on the development and creation of high-altitude high-speed interceptor fighters designed to combat promising supersonic bombers. The aircraft being created received the indexes E-150, E-152. The development of these aircraft OKB

According to the AW&ST (Aviation and Space Technology Weekly), the US Navy and Air Force have begun preliminary work on the formation of requirements for the sixth generation fighter. Despite the fact that the US Department of Defense will start financing the project no earlier than 2015, and the plane itself is planned to be taken on

There is a misunderstanding associated with “clap”, caused by a misunderstanding of the term “sound barrier”. This “clap” is correctly called “sonic boom”. An airplane moving at supersonic speed creates shock waves in the surrounding air, jumps in air pressure. Simplified, these waves can be

In January 1971, when signing an order to start work on another aircraft project, Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, one of the best Soviet aircraft designers, hardly knew about the scale of fame and recognition that the new aircraft of his design bureau would receive. And if he did, then this guess was not at all

According to the London weekly The Sunday Times, China has successfully tested an unmanned vehicle that is capable of staying in orbit for up to 270 days and solving various defense-related tasks, such as destroying enemy communications satellites

Up to three regiments equipped with 4 ++ generation Su-35 aircraft will be formed in the Russian Air Force in 2011–2015. The Su-35 is a deeply modernized super-maneuverable multifunctional fighter. It is a further development of the famous Su-27. It uses

Beijing has made the first move to develop its own fifth generation fighter. The progress of aircraft construction in the PRC is impressive, but at the same time, the life of Chinese designers is significantly complicated by a number of systemic engineering and technological problems. In the coming years, the attention of the world aviation

The Chinese military has tested the latest fifth generation fighter. A local news site has released the first images of the plane in the air taken by amateur photographers, and in images published by news portal 163.com, the fighter is flying with its landing gear extended. Airplane shots

Fight at any time of the day and regardless of weather conditions, easily hitting targets at maximum range, and at the same time remain out of reach of enemy weapons. All these fighting qualities are now implemented in the new Russian attack helicopter Mi-28N "Night Hunter" (according to

The Russian Air Force is preparing for a major modernization of the aircraft fleet. In the near future, combat units, for the first time in the last 20 years, will receive a significant number of new aircraft and helicopters. Combat aviation is directly affected by the current stage of military reform. On the results of the activities of the Air Force

In the coming year, the Russian Ministry of Defense will test several samples of Russian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in trial operation. In total, next year it is planned to purchase about 10 Orlan-10 complexes, as well as 20-25 samples of Eleron-10, Lastochka and

Army aviation was in a deplorable state when it was transferred to the Russian Air Force in 2003. Thanks to the measures taken by the country's leadership, the Ministry of Defense and the Air Force command, she not only got out of the crisis, but also the first to start re-equipping with new types of aircraft

It is planned that the new Russian PAK FA fighter will be a kind of response to the American F-22 Raptor fighter. Until now, it is the only operating fifth-generation fighter in the world that made its first flight back in 1997

China, according to some reports, has independently created a prototype of a fifth-generation aircraft using stealth technology - it can take off today. The first images of the stealth plane appeared on the Internet at the end of December, but it is still unclear where they came from

The first batch of new Mi-8AMTSh (Terminator) helicopters, consisting of ten copies, entered service with the army aviation combat regiment in the Kuban. For this reason, on the territory of the military airfield of the 393rd helicopter base in Korenovsk, where the regiment is located, a solemn

In 2011 - 2015, up to three regiments equipped with super-maneuverable multifunctional Su-35 fighters will be formed in the Russian Air Force, Colonel Vladimir Drik, an official spokesman for the press service and information of the Russian Ministry of Defense for the Air Force, said

Several Chinese defense forums have posted images of the new fighter. The photographs show a combat aircraft, the structural elements of which resemble both the American fifth-generation F-22 fighter and the Russian T-50 PAK FA. The fighter was developed using technology

Description of the aircraft At the end of September 1997, a historic event took place in the history of Russian aviation - the flight of a new experimental aircraft, the Su-47 "Berkut", took place, which could become a prototype of the fifth generation domestic fighter. A black bird of prey with a white nose

The transfer of four Su-34 front-line bombers to representatives of the Russian Air Force will take place at the Novosibirsk Aviation Production Association (NAPO) at the end of December. This is the final batch of production vehicles that the country's Air Force was supposed to receive in 2010. Further rates

In NATO it is called "Black Jack", in the US - "Air terminator". And only the Russians affectionately say “White Swan.” Behind the outward grace of the Tu-160, a supersonic strategic missile-carrying bomber, lies a tough character. Tu-160

1. MiG-25 3.2MS Soviet single-seat supersonic high-altitude interceptor, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau. The legendary aircraft, which set several world records, including a speed record, but as usual in the USSR, much was kept silent. According to

This beautiful seaplane landed between the sea and the desert of Saudi Arabia, and remained there for almost 50 years. The PBY-5A Catalina, an American military seaplane produced since the 1936s. It is located on the beach in the Tiran Strait on the Saudi Arabian side from the entrance to the bay

The second flight prototype of the fifth generation T-50 aircraft will take off in early 2011 after testing all systems, President of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Alexei Fedorov told reporters in New Delhi

The Chief Command of the Ground Forces has been charged with overseeing the development of Russian short- and medium-range military unmanned systems. The first result of this innovation was the decision of the Minister of Defense to purchase four competitive unmanned reconnaissance systems

The "Father of Nations" has invented a new technical termCan you "cross" a tank with an airplane? For many years this idea itself seemed absurd. However, in the end, we, in the pre-war USSR, still found specialists who were able to solve such a "technical puzzle". Among them was Nikolai Sklyarov - a veteran

In the next 10 years, the Russian Air Force will acquire more than 1.5 thousand new aircraft and modernize more than 400 old-built aircraft. This was announced on December 1 by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Igor Sadofiev. Similar figures have already been called more than once by various media outlets, including with

Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant is going to resume production of Su-25UB. Their construction was started in the last years of the existence of the USSR and stopped in the 90s, and now these aircraft can not only help the training of Air Force personnel, but also create the basis for the manufacture of new assault combat vehicles

British Air Force fighter "Harrier" after 40 years of service was removed from service as a result of cuts in defense spending. The aircraft, which entered service in 1969, marked its retirement with a final flight over Cottesmore Airport. In these photos, we recall moments from the life of one of

By 2020, the government wants to purchase more than 1,500 military manned aircraft for the army. According to RIA Novosti, Sadofiev, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, spoke about this. “In total, by 2020, it is planned to purchase and modernize about two thousand aircraft and helicopters with

An international engineering duo has proposed revisiting traditional aircraft design in terms of fuel efficiency. Jeffrey Spedding of the University of Southern California (USA) and Joachim Huissen of Northwestern University of South Africa have long wanted to develop more

The US Department of Defense has changed the terms of the contract with Lockheed Martin, implying the supply of 30 F-35 Lightning II fighters, reports Lenta.ru. Under the terms of the new agreement, the military is to receive 31 F-35 fighters for $ 3.5 billion. The previous terms of the contract stipulated

On January 29, 2010, Honored Test Pilot of Russia, Colonel Sergei Leonidovich Bogdan, lifted into the skies a "promising front-line aviation complex", aka the T-50 fighter, announced as "the first Russian fifth generation fighter", our response to the American Raptor. How

According to the head of the Sukhoi holding Mikhail Pogosyan, the second promising aviation complex of frontline aviation (PAK FA) will begin flights by the end of the year. “The first flight prototype made 40 flights, and we are generally satisfied. The tests are moving faster than planned, "he is quoted as saying

Work on the creation of this seemingly very exotic combat aircraft began in 1990. The requirements of the Polish Air Force provided for the development of a universal combat vehicle intended for direct support of troops, reconnaissance, as well as the fight against attack aircraft, helicopters and RPVs (similar

Tu-95 (product "B", according to NATO codification: Bear - "Bear") - Soviet turboprop strategic bomber-missile carrier, the fastest propeller-driven aircraft, which became one of the symbols of the Cold War. The world's only adopted and mass-produced turboprop