Aviation
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Looking through the Syrian and Middle Eastern and Western information resources in the late evening of February 21, it was hard to believe my eyes when the news block of the online tactical map syria.liveuamap.com appeared the first reports on the arrival of a pair of multifunctional
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Su-34 of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the F-15E "Strike Eagle" multipurpose fighter of the 48th tactical fighter wing of the US Air Force, deployed at the Lakenhaes airbase (Great Britain) All those who are even slightly interested in the technical features of modern combat aircraft and other military equipment are far from
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In addition to the standard infrared sensor located on the nose of the fuselage in front of the cockpit canopy, Thunder received a container-type optical-electronic complex WMD-7 "ASELPOD", developed by the Turkish company "Aselsan". This multifunctional complex is
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The image shows the first alleged "stealth" modification of the Sino-Pakistani JF-17 Block II / III "Thunder" multipurpose tactical fighter, indexed JF-17X. The concept, belonging to the 5th generation of tactical aviation, carries 2 short-range missiles on the wingtips
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A very rare sight: Su-30MKI and MiG-25R of the Indian Air Force near one taxiway at one of the Indian air bases In the late 80s, when the Chinese air defense forces did not yet have long-range anti-aircraft missile systems of the upper line S-300PS / PMU- 1 and Chinese counterparts HQ-9, and the fighter
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During the first large-scale exercise of the US Air Force "Red Flag 17-01" in 2017, which started on January 23 at Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada), numerous tactical models of operations to gain air superiority and suppress the air defense of a mock enemy were practiced
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From top to bottom: 2nd and 1st variants of the promising J-10C fighter; from left to right: the project of the promising 5th generation fighter FS-2020 from the SAAB company and the F-22A Raptor Despite the existence of two actively developing projects of the 5th generation multirole fighters for the Air Force
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An assessment of the combat potential of the armed forces of Taiwan (Republic of China) is one of the most interesting and important topics of any forecast review affecting the military-strategic situation in the Asia-Pacific
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On the lower surfaces of the fuselage nose, characteristic light gray structural protrusions are noticeable, in places of which serial vehicles will have a turret with an electro-optical sighting system of the EOTS (Electro-Optical Targeting System) type for detecting and tracking sea
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"Hand Raven" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - UAV RQ-11B "Raven", caught and planted by means of electronic warfare of the Armed Forces of the Luhansk People's Republic A very weighty and interesting, from a tactical point of view, event took place in the Donbass theater of operations in early December 2016. As it became known on December 8, closer to
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A little more than a month and a half remains before the inauguration of a very extraordinary and geopolitically flexible personality, Republican Donald Trump, as president of the United States. And despite all the jubilation of our political scientists, Internet observers, bloggers and other "commentators" regarding the pro-Russian
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Altius-MR Reconnaissance flight of the American strategic unmanned aerial vehicle RQ-4 "Global Hawk" along the Russian borders of the Republic of Crimea, as well as 217 km from the line of contact between the territories of Donbass controlled by the Armed Forces of Novorossiya and the Ukrainian paramilitary formations
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Demonstration of the maneuverability of the F / A-18E / F "Super Hornet" When designing the F / A-18E / F "Super Hornet", the developer was very serious about the need to increase the range of the new machine. For a carrier-based multi-role fighter, this indicator is paramount, since
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The first test launch of the tactical anti-tank missile AGM-114F "Halfire" from the underwing point of the suspension of the light attack aircraft "Scorpion" Reflections and disputes in the defense departments of Russia and the United States regarding the replacement of the outdated attack aircraft Su-25 and A-10A / C do not subside to this day. Initially, this
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The warhead with a semi-active laser homing head of the light tactical guided missile WGU-59 / B APKWS
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The prototype of the long-range high-altitude fighter-interceptor MiG-31 - E-155MP (board "831"), which first took off on September 16, 1975, received all the constructive and conceptual "roots" of the widely known and unique in its kind 3-fly fighter-interceptor MiG - 25PD. "Delivered on
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Getting acquainted with the endless military-technical expanses of the Chinese Internet (including forums, blog platforms, etc.), as well as watching YouTube video content for searches related to J-10A / B multirole fighters, you can repeatedly stumble upon unique acrobatic maneuvers
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The observed trend towards a global aggravation of the military-political situation up to pre-escalation situations, caused by the reluctance of Western regimes to switch to a fundamentally new (multipolar) system of world order, is increasingly pushing defense departments, as well as private and
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Most of the air forces of the Warsaw Pact countries have managed to become very closely acquainted with the unique flight and technical, and therefore the fighting qualities of the advanced twin-engine fighters of the 4th generation MiG-29A ("Product 9-12B"), which began to enter service 1st
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A huge amount of controversy and reflections concerning the development and future application in practice of the American concept of a "Rapid Global Strike" can be found on the Russian expanses of the global network and on Russian-language foreign military-analytical resources. It is not a secret that
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A healthy dose of jingoistic patriotism will never hurt in an analytical review of promising domestic concepts of military equipment, especially when their parameters are at the level or significantly ahead of the capabilities of foreign counterparts. This statement is completely true for a multichannel
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Experienced A-50U, rebuilt according to a serial project and named "Sergei Atayants". Photo Russianplanes.net In the mid-eighties for the USSR Air Force was created the newest aircraft long-range radar surveillance and control (AWACS) A-50. The operation of such equipment continues to this day, and
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Reading much of what appears on the vast network about the military equipment of the past, I made an amusing conclusion. People do not know how to think and reason - this time. And two - I understood why the idea was so tenacious “corpses were flooded.” Indeed, the heyday and formation of the Internet fell on the peak
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The United Aircraft Corporation is moving to a new industrial model, which provides for the transfer of a number of works to outsourcing. These include the development and production of integrated airborne cable networks and aircraft pipeline systems. Near the UAC factories in Ulyanovsk and
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Revitalization of local air lines is an extremely important task for the country. The question is open. There are more than 28 thousand settlements in Russia that can be reached mainly by air. In the USSR, these addresses were successfully served by small aircraft. But it so happened that local aviation
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The commotion around the MiG-29KR fighter-bomber that fell into the Mediterranean Sea has subsided. It makes sense to ask a few questions about the situation. The Ministry of Defense explained that the plane had interrupted the training flight due to a technical malfunction. The pilot managed to eject, was discovered
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The area of the Aviastar workshop can be compared with a small provincial town. Previously, the IL-76 was made in Uzbekistan, at the Tashkent aircraft plant. But in the 25 years that have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the company has managed to lose all its potential. In the end, the production was deprived of the opportunity to do
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On December 22, the date of the start of flight tests of another famous Soviet aircraft, more precisely, of its predecessor, falls. On this day in 1939, the high-altitude twin-engine fighter VI-100 took off for the first time
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Having analyzed in the first part the confrontation between the Polikarpov and Messerschmitt fighters, we turn to the so-called "Soviet triad", the aircraft of a new generation that appeared at the beginning of the war and, together with Polikarpov's fighters, took the first strike of the Luftwaffe
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After the Victory in 1945, there was a direct use by both the Soviet Union and the United States of the intellectual resources of the former enemy. In the USSR, scientists and engineers, exported from Germany in whole teams and individually, participated in the atomic project, the creation of rocket and aviation technology. it
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To deploy planes, you need a dirt pad and some equipment. A number of myths have been created around aviation and ekranoplanes, which openly distort the capabilities of aircraft and create distorted ideas among the population interested in the issue. Alas, sometimes people
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Australia is unlikely to be considered an aircraft building power, and this will generally be true, but there was one interesting period in its history when it could become such - and even almost became. Having started by copying a trainer aircraft, the Australians literally in a few years have gone all the way to
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In the history of World War II at sea, the actions of seaplane aviation are a topic that has been somewhat ignored. At least in comparison with base or deck aircraft. Who, for example, remembers what the Soviet MBR-2s did? And even if some topic is considered "uncovered" - for example, actions
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After heavy defeats in mid-1942, it became clear to many discerning people in Japan that the war would be lost. They, of course, could not imagine how: to imagine the burning of one city after another, hundreds of crews of bombers in one sortie, having orders in large quantities
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When, in the early 1940s, Ed Heineman, Robert Donovan and Ted Smith of Douglas designed their A-26 Invader strike aircraft, they hardly imagined what life was in store for their brainchild. This was all the more surprising since during the Second World War, for participation in which this
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Japan, being a "seemingly" peace-loving state, devoid of any militarism and having a provision in the Constitution prohibiting the use of military force as a political instrument, nevertheless has a powerful military industry and large and well-equipped armed forces, formally considered
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The first thing we decided to start with was aircraft machine guns. Yes, if we talk about an airplane, then it is a very complex thing and consists of many parts. Engines and armaments will be our focus. Let's start with weapons and rifle-caliber machine guns. Understandable, because the machine gun was the main
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MS-21 Developer Corporation IrkutOKB im. Yakovleva First flight 2017 Units produced (2017) 1 (4 experienced on assembly) Unit cost (2017) $ 72 mln. (MS-21-200) $ 91 million (MS-21-300) MS-21 (Trunk aircraft of the XXI century) is a Russian medium-range airliner developed by the Irkut Corporation
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The creation and development of new technologies in the field of aviation can give serious advantages over competitors, and the results of such work should be protected from unauthorized persons. This is exactly the approach that the American company Otto Aviation Group uses in its Celera 500L experimental aircraft project
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In a duel situation, our fighter has more chances Su-27 heavy fighters will be the main tool for the operational maneuver of air defense groups in the most dangerous areas. His opponent will most likely be the main fighter of the United States Air Force, the F-15C