Aviation
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Record work Soviet "heavyweight" Mi-26. Despite a rather long test period and the state acceptance procedure, the first production Mi-26 had flaws
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The order of the artillerymenThe captured German reconnaissance aircraft FW-189, which fell into the hands of the specialists of the Research Institute of the Red Army Air Force, after testing and careful study, left a positive impression. The reports wrote that the excellent visibility made it possible to quickly detect the enemy, and the high
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Be-200 masters the sky and water The first instance of the Be-200 amphibian reached flight readiness only by the fall of 1998, two years after assembly. This delay was largely due to financial problems both at the development enterprise in Taganrog and at the Irkutsk IAPO. However, the crew
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The younger brother of the Albatross In the mid-1980s, the Beriev Design Bureau worked on the world's largest jet anti-submarine amphibious A-40 Albatross (product B). The possibility of creating a conversion version for passenger transportation, fighting forest fires, patrolling
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How the Germans tried to deceive everyone The Versailles Treaty put the German industry in a very cramped working conditions. In order to avoid military developments, observers of the victorious countries in the First World War kept German factories and design bureaus under control. Engineers
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Winged catamaran The history of the MK-1, or ANT-22, began in July 1931, when TsAGI received a request from the Air Force Directorate to develop an aircraft that in many ways had no analogues in the world. A large machine was required for long-range flights, capable of destroying whole
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The Su-34 met real combat operations in August 2008 during the operation to force Georgia to peace. The scope of the aircraft was reconnaissance and strikes against ground targets. In particular, one Su-34 disabled the Georgian radar station of the Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM complexes. Was also
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The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) is now Germany and France's most modern vision of their own fighter. The German Air Force is currently armed with the obsolete Tornado fighter-bombers, which are constantly in short supply
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UK Secretary of Defense Gavin Williamson opened the presentation of the project on the sidelines of the Farnborough Air Show with the words: “Let's be clear: we are entering a dangerous new era. Therefore, our main focus should be on the future and how we respond to emerging threats. Today
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The world debut of Anthea took place in the summer of 1965 in Le Bourget, France. The car immediately became a real highlight of the exhibition. Still, before the An-22, the most heavy-lifting aircraft were the domestic 3M, which lifted 55 tons into the air, and the state-owned C-141, designed for a commercial load of 40 tons
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In the 1960s, the Antey's predecessor, the An-12, could carry by air only 20% of the weapons and equipment of the ground forces, as well as about 18% of the country's air defense forces. And the An-12 could not at all transport the equipment of the strategic missile forces. It is because of such a rapid development
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In 1958, American J.M. Thompson, on a Douglas C-133, lifted a superload of 53.5 tons into the air, climbing 2 km with it. An-22 exceeded this figure by 34.6 tons in 1966, and the lifting height was an impressive 6,000 meters. Ivan Egorovich Davydov, test pilot of the OKB
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In the Tyumen region, the discovery of the giant Samotlor field coincided with the creation of the An-22. Even now it is not easy to get there, and in the second half of the 60s it was possible only by air. It was "Antey" that took on the main burden in the delivery of large-sized equipment and urgent
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Designers and production workers are sometimes people who defend different interests. A similar situation happened with the An-22, when in Tashkent the director of the plant K. Pospelov and the chief engineer V. Sivets could not ensure the production and assembly of a one-piece wing of the aircraft. They came out with a split proposal
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"Carrier" - such a simple name was given to the aircraft under the designation An-22PZ, intended for the transportation of large-sized parts of other, even larger aircraft. This was a worldwide trend. Aircraft powers acquired wide-body aircraft into which oversized parts were loaded
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One of the most responsible missions at the government level for the An-22 was to ensure the visit of US President Ford to the Soviet Union in 1973. From Moscow to Vozdvizhenka, a vehicle with tail number USSR-09310 of the 81st VTAP transferred government communications equipment necessary for the visit
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In search of the ideal In 1997, the KA-6D Intruder tanker aircraft disappeared from the US Navy aircraft carriers - it was removed from service, and a full replacement was not provided. For this purpose, the F / A-18 Super Hornet fighters were adapted, which received outboard fuel tanks instead of weapons. Of course it was
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Bird strike In world aviation, the term "bird strike" refers to a collision of an aircraft with a bird, which is often an emergency. Here is an example from the history of Russian military aviation. On April 1, 1977, the MiG-15 UTI aircraft piloted by Colonel N.N.Grigorukov and Major G
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Shoot out of here! In the first part of the story, we got acquainted with the history of military and civil aviation ornithology. In the end, we will pay attention to the methods of preventing collisions between aircraft and birds, which, unfortunately, are still far from perfect
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Entertaining numerology The wide-bodied CR929 should be considered Sino-Russian: the letter C stands for China, and the R stands for Russia. The joint venture for the development and assembly of winged aircraft is called CRAIC, China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Corporation Limited. The number 929 also carries
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To replace Novichok The so-called transport division of the United Aircraft Corporation is now the busiest engineering cluster, if not in the entire Russian industry, then in aviation for sure. The lead developer of the direction was rightly chosen "Aviation complex named after S.V
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Drone from Pisa On December 23, 2016, the Italians from Leonardo acquired a small company Sistemi Dinamici SpA (founded in 2006), which has good competence in unmanned technologies. Actually, Leonardo was originally engaged in the development of unmanned helicopters with an office from Pisa, but later
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To be precise, in 2020 the idea and concept of the Mi-38 turns 39 years old. On June 30, 1981, the CPSU Central Committee and the Council of Ministers decided to start work on a new rotorcraft, which received the original name Mi-8M. Until now, opinions about which car to replace
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Photo: Press Service of Russian Helicopters Mi-38T in bright green livery Turbine hearts and hearts In the first part of the story, it was mentioned that the Mi-38 made its maiden flight on Pratt & Whitney Canada PW-127T / S engines, and this is largely due was to ensure the exit of the machine to the international
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The main consumer of aluminum during the Great Patriotic War was aircraft production. The first part of the article about the aluminum industry and its impact on the military potential of the Soviet Union spoke of the country's serious lag behind
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Pathfinder Plus. Source: wikipedia.org Advantageous observation angle Stratospheric heights of about 18-30 kilometers are poorly mastered by humans. In this kind of "near space" planes are taken infrequently, and there are no spacecraft there. But a similar layer in the air layer
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On June 17, 1982, the world's first single-seat coaxial combat helicopter - the future Black Shark - took off for the first time. Russian helicopters, although they appeared a little later than their counterparts abroad, from the very first years won a worthy place in the history of world aviation … Records and
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As you know, the center section is the very part of the aircraft wing that connects the left and right planes and serves, in fact, to attach the wing to the fuselage. In accordance with the logic, the center section should be a rigid structure. But on December 21, 1979, a NASA AD-1 plane took off
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Against the background of the sky and above the water surface, the Su-34 front-line bomber is practically invisible. Painting technology of this aircraft, which is being built at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after VP Chkalova (a subsidiary of the Sukhoi company), solves the problem of anti-corrosion protection of aircraft and its external
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Exactly 60 years ago, on June 22, 1956, the first flight of the modified Il-14T transport aircraft took place. The crew was commanded by Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki. The airborne version was created on the basis of the Il-14M. V
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The concept of a combat helicopter in the process of formation has come a long way of changes and improvements. One of the key issues was the development of ideas about the most effective tactics for using a rotary-wing attack aircraft, the corresponding weapons complex and, consequently, the scheme and
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At the Borisoglebsk aviation base, the active training of the flight crews' practical skills in operating the Yak-130 combat training aircraft (UBS) continued during the investigation of the reasons for the emergency landing of the aircraft in June this year. Airplanes piloted in
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By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, the holiday of long-range aviation pilots appeared in the calendar of military holidays of the Russian Federation. This event happened in 1999, when not only Long-Range Aviation, but the entire Armed Forces of the country experienced enormous difficulties. The country itself experienced difficulties, over
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The adoption of the T-50 into service was again postponed for a year.The program of flight tests of the promising aviation complex of front-line aviation (PAK FA) T-50 is progressing quite successfully, but the aircraft itself is still far from being put into service. In this case, the final technical appearance of the fighter will be
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What should a Russian gunship be like? Recently, TASS, referring to its source in the military-industrial complex at the Army-2019 forum, reported that we have begun developing our own gunship aircraft based on the An-12. Arming him, they say, is planned with 57-mm cannons (which, of course, is very cool). Although the number of guns on
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Each time has its own stories! One, that the proletariat will gain the whole world (modestly keeping silent about what sociopaths with a university degree will lead it), the other - about universal tolerance (as a result, the tolerance turned out to be "West vs East" as a result). But what about the economy? About her in a frenzy of crackling
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Despite the significant progress of recent decades, aircraft of relatively old models are still the main technology of strategic aviation in Russia and the United States. For various reasons, fairly old, but still meeting the requirements, Tu-95MS and B-52H aircraft remain in service. For
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The Be-200 amphibious aircraft with number 301 from the production reserve of JSC Irkut Scientific and Production Corporation (NPK Irkut), completed at the enterprise, flew to Taganrog at the JSC Taganrog Scientific and Technical Complex named after Beriev "(TANTK named after
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Photo by Dmitry Alexandrovich Mott The world-famous An-225 Mriya giant aircraft, created by the OK Design Bureau. Antonov, took off on December 21, 1988. This event is considered one of the most significant in the aviation world, but what happened before the development of this super-large aircraft
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The Russian army is not yet armed with medium and heavy unmanned aerial vehicles of domestic design. All available systems of this class were developed by foreign companies. Nevertheless, the negative situation in this area is gradually improving. I have already been in our country