Aviation 2024, November

USAF's Newest Hope The battle for air supremacy over the western Pacific Ocean off the coast of China has definitely reached a new technological level. In a previous article on this topic, I already wrote that the United States is faced with two factors that significantly weaken them

New times Since 1991, the process of degradation of the armed forces of the USSR, and then of Russia, began. All subsequent processes negatively affected all types of aircraft of the Air Force, Air Defense and Navy, but the MiG-29 received the most painful blows. Except, of course, for those types that were just

1943 year. The turning point in the course of the war In 1943, the survivability of the main striking force of the Red Army Air Force, the Il-2 aircraft, reached 50 sorties. The number of combat aircraft in the active army has exceeded 12 thousand vehicles. The scale has become gigantic. The number of Luftwaffe combat aircraft on all fronts was 5400

Recently, a controversy has escalated on the Internet around the current state of affairs in the field of equipping the Russian Air Force with combat aircraft. At the same time, special emphasis is placed on the obvious advantage that the Sukhoi Design Bureau has, and the almost complete loss of the once strong positions of the MiG Design Bureau. Disputes are ongoing

Now there is no shortage of photographs of the MiG-31K with the Kh-47M2. Hypersonic weapons have long taken pride of place among other types of Wunderwaffe, which are supposed to plunge the enemy into dust with lightning speed. Here are the recent tests of the Kh-47M2 "Dagger" rocket in November 2019, when the MiG-31K with

Bell Helicopter Textron is currently testing and fine-tuning the promising V-280 Valor tiltrotor intended for participation in the US Army's Future Vertical Lift competition. The prototype V-280 has been undergoing flight tests for a long time and since then

Work on the Lasta trainer project has been carried out in the former Yugoslavia since the mid-80s of the last century. After the bloody collapse of the country, a series of civil wars and NATO aggression, a new version was created by the now Serbian aircraft factory UTVA and was named Lasta-95

As it became known back on September 21, 2018, one of the episodes of tactical flight exercises that took place in Transbaikalia was the interception of a rather complex ballistic air target of the RM-75V "Armavir" type of high-altitude type ("B") by the forces of the long-range interceptor MiG-31BM link, using long-range

The first prototype of the YF-23 "Black Widow II" on the runway during tests (summer-autumn 1990) If you plunge headlong into the design period of the 5th generation of American tactical aviation, rooted in the early 80s ., you can pay attention to the fact that

While at the "Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunov "the assembly of the first prototype of the deeply modernized strategic bomber-missile carrier Tu-160M2 is in full swing, the management of Tupolev PJSC has finally decided on the timing of the rollout of the first flight prototype

Model for aerodynamic testing of the XQ-222 "Valkyrie" long-range stealth UAV

A fairly large number of tactically significant events have taken place in the Syrian theater of operations in recent months. This is a massive attack by Tomahawk cruise missiles on the Shayrat airbase (some of which were planted by Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems near Tartus), and

British concept of the shuttle for suborbital flights "Ascender" Extremely entertaining information continues to come from the Western European information space regarding new methods of countering the ground component of the Strategic Nuclear Forces of the Russian Federation. Seems to be

In the extremely unstable geopolitical and economic environment of the second decade of the 21st century, any detailed forecasting analysis is a very difficult and thankless task, especially when it comes to assessing the future technological potential and the numerical strength of the armed forces

We can say for sure that the level of hopes placed by the Russian Aerospace Forces on a deeply modernized version of the strategic bomber-missile carrier "White Swan" with the Tu-160M2 index is clearly not inferior to the level of interest in the project of a promising aviation complex

Almost 28 years have passed since the first flight of the prototype of the B-2 “Spirit” stealth strategic bomber. Despite this, at numerous military-analytical forums, very heated discussions continue about the combat effectiveness of this vehicle in the most difficult conditions

Over the past few years, a lot of information has appeared on Western and Asian military-analytical resources regarding the development and integration of specialized suspended "stealth" containers on tactical fighters of the transitional and 5th generations, designed to accommodate

The cost of one copy of the "Textron AirLand Scorpion" combat trainer is approaching $ 20 million Despite the impressive combat load of 7260 kg, massive armor protection of the cockpit, represented by the size of titanium armor plates on screw mounts, and high survivability

RVV-AE-PD model presented at the MAKS-2001 aerospace exhibition. In the tail section, developed lattice aerodynamic rudders are visible, maintaining efficiency at a 40-degree angle of inclination relative to the normal. Thanks to this, the overload of the rocket can reach 35 units

One-keel modification of the JH-7B stealth tactical fighter (draft) Almost all existing

I would like to initially say that quite often the hype in the media does not always correspond to the real state of affairs in such complex issues as the export deliveries of 5th generation tactical aircraft from manufacturing states to third countries. Sales contracts for these

This photo of J-20 on the deck of the aircraft carrier Liaoning is pure high-quality computer-generated editing, but it may soon become a real reality. At the suspension point of the side internal weapons compartment, you can see the super-maneuverable BVB PL-10 missile with an ultra-high IKGSN

The only heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser of the Russian fleet, project 1143.5, "Admiral Kuznetsov"

Joint flight of the long-range patrol aircraft P-8A "Poseidon" and its good old turboprop analogue P-3C "Orion". Being in more than 30 years of temporary break in the peak of combat activity, one and the second cars will continue to patrol the seas and oceans together until almost the middle of the 21st century

The fifth prototype of the stealthy super-maneuverable multi-role fighter of the 5th generation PAK FA - T-50-5R. The aircraft received one of the most beautiful camouflages in the Russian Aerospace Forces "Shark" Since the first flight of the prototype of the Russian super-maneuverable multipurpose fighter of the 5th generation T-50-1

The highest functionality of the Alligator / Katran attack helicopters is assured by a large combat load of the helicopter, exceeding 2000 kg. One vehicle can take on a combat mission simultaneously several types of missile weapons at 4 (at upgraded and more) points

Having won in January 2012 the "legendary" by the standards of all known defense contracts, the Indian MMRCA tender for the production and supply of 126 Rafale multi-role fighters to Delhi, the French company Dassault Aviation continues to "rake a lot of problems" associated with the promotion of machines

In service with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces, several two-seat modifications of the F-2B multipurpose fighter continue to consist. The machine has a significantly expanded survivability and productivity due to the presence of a systems operator, but for the sake of the fuselage volume spent on the co-pilot's seat

Most modern tactical fighters are multipurpose aircraft, thanks to which they perfectly cope not only with the tasks of gaining air superiority, suppressing air defense, anti-ship defense or delivering pinpoint strikes against the enemy, but also adapted for

As a radical upgrade of China's J-10A / B light multirole fighters, the more promising tactical fighter-interceptor J-10C is being developed under strict secrecy. It owes its appearance to the Israeli concern IAI, which in 1987 transferred the entire

A unique feature of the N035 Irbis-E airborne radar installed on the super-maneuverable Su-35S fighter is the ability to detect and track hypersonic aerospace targets flying at speeds up to 1527 m / s (5.17M). At one time, numerous bloggers and amateurs combat aviation

In conditions of a large number of modern air defense systems in the theater of operations, which are network-centrically connected both with each other and with various aviation air defense and radio intelligence systems, the use of standard military transport aircraft faces enormous danger

An active naval confrontation for control of the Spratly archipelago continues today between the leading "players" of Southeast Asia and part of the Asia-Pacific region. The entire Spratly island chain is split between Vietnam, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia, with Vietnam owning

In the photo, the strategic bomber-missile carrier B-1B "Lancer" and the strategic air tanker KC-10A "Extender" are following along the runway. These types of strategic aviation may soon be deployed to Australian air bases in order to "contain the Chinese threat." But for carrying

The emergence of a full-fledged unmanned aviation complex of the 6th generation, capable of performing the full range of combat missions solved by pilots today, should be expected no earlier than the end of the second half of the 21st century. The service life of the F-35A / B / C alone was recently extended to 2070, not to mention

The complete shutdown of the Lockheed Martin production line for the serial production of the 5th generation F-22A Raptor multipurpose stealth fighters in 2008 was a real strategic failure for both the US Department of Defense and Washington as a whole. The decision to stop production significantly

Having been in service with the US Air Force for almost 60 years, the U-2 strategic high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, which received new capabilities in the U-2S version, will continue their operational deployment at the strategically important NATO and US Air Force bases in Osana (Republic of Korea), Al-Kharj (Saudi Arabia ), Akrotiri (Cyprus)

A very impressive "stratospheric photoshop" of the future project of the early warning and control aircraft from Saab AB - "GlobalEye AEW &C". Due to its excellent flight performance, the Canadian-Swedish radar patrol and guidance aircraft is capable of operating

The occupation of the northern part of Iraq, the continuing oil traffic from the territories controlled by ISIS across the Syrian-Turkish border, the strengthening of Turkish army units on the SAR border, as well as the openly arrogant and unsubstantiated statements of the top officials of Turkey commenting on their "blinkered"

In more than one of our materials, the issues of the operational-strategic alignment of forces in the Asia-Pacific region, where China does not yet have any military-technical advantages over the US Navy and Air Force, as well as the navy of the "anti-Chinese bloc"