Aviation 2024, May

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Record work Soviet "heavyweight" Mi-26. Despite a rather long test period and the state acceptance procedure, the first production Mi-26 had flaws

Tragedies of the 76th Squadron The 76th Separate Guards Leningrad Red Banner Military Transport Squadron in its best years had 29 "Anteyevs" in service at once. The squadron's vehicles and crews took part in many landmark operations. So, in 1982, board 09338 was transferred to Baikonur orbital

Such a heavy machine as the Mi-26 must be lifted into the air by a propeller of a classical design, which will ensure its reliability and durability. At the time of development, KB Mil had very little experience in creating fiberglass blades, so at first it was decided from them in the new transport helicopter

The full name of the combat unit sounded like this: 556th Solnechnogorsk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov III degree military transport aviation regiment. The flight crews began to get to know the An-22 directly in 1972 at two sites at once: in Tashkent and Kuibyshev. By the end of the year, the 1st

Created from scratch, the XXI aircraft turned out to be one of the most advertised technical projects in modern Russia. He had to show that our country is still in the game and is capable of taking serious positions in the global aviation industry. However, more than 10 years have passed since the first flight, and a small

If the Mi-26 did not exist in the USSR, it should have been invented. With the advent of a rotorcraft of this class, it turned out that everyone needed it: border guards and army aviation, rescuers and builders, civil aviation and firefighters. Mi-26 passed Afghanistan, Chechen conflicts, liquidation

Illegal military formations in Syria have created a whole state with a mass of fortified and disguised objects - from operational command posts deep underground to warehouses and workshops for the manufacture of explosives. The militants adopted many tactical methods of fortification from

The Ukrainian Air Force, created on March 17, 1992, inherited three (!) Air armies from the Soviet Union, which allowed the country to become the strongest in Europe and the fourth in the world by this indicator. Fighters - more than 340 units

The history of the future "Japanese breakthrough" began in 1994, when the Technical Research & Development Institute (TRDI) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) launched the TD-X (Technology

October 1952. In the village of Tomilino near Moscow, an experimental plant No. 918 is being organized to create means of ensuring the safety of crews and increasing the survivability of combat aircraft. The decision was not made by chance - the massive transition of aviation to jet thrust and a natural increase in speeds and

Su-30SM fighters of the Russian Air Force built in 2014 (red side numbers "24" and "25") during the Russian-Indian exercise "Aviaindra-2014". The aircraft were delivered to the Russian Air Force on 07.19.2014. Lipetsk, September 2014 (c) Evgeny Volkov / russianplanes.net

At the HeliRussia-2012 exhibition, Rosoboronexport is presenting a wide range of Russian-made helicopters in military and military transport versions. For the opening of HeliRussia-2012, TsAMTO publishes statistical data on the global military helicopter market

The team of authors 2Business Insider "in the American edition" We are The Mighty "reflects on the prospects for the fifth generation fighter F-35, around which so many spears have already been broken that it is possible to fence off more than one land airfield. clear and understandable

On the evening of November 29, residents of the southern regions of Great Britain and the east coast of the United States heard strange sounds. People heard a series of loud noises similar to gunfire or explosions. Soon, a recording of this noise was published on the Internet, made by a resident of London using a mobile phone

We often hear that in terms of bribes, our country is ahead of the rest of the world. Nevertheless, they also know how to give and take bribes abroad, and very often huge sums appear in scandalous news. This time the scandal turned out to be international: high-ranking

A few years ago, a set with a loud name appeared on the shelves with prefabricated models of military equipment. The boxes with the inscription "Ka-58" Black Ghost "" were supplied with parts of a certain helicopter with a fantastic appearance and mysterious characteristics. Shortly after the release of these models

In the past 2012, more than 900 billion rubles were spent on the purchase of new equipment and weapons for the Russian army. In the current 2013, it is planned to allocate 1.3 trillion for these needs. Thus, defense spending is constantly increasing, which simply cannot but lead to positive

Just a couple of days ago, Lockheed Martin published new photos from the workshop of the plant, where the latest F-35 Lightning II fighters are assembled. The wing assemblies of the next aircraft captured on them are notable for the fact that it will already be the hundredth fighter in the series. All in all, now at the factories of the company

The other day unpleasant news came from India. It was not the Russian Mi-28N that won the tender for the purchase of attack helicopters, but the American Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow. The "long-suffering" competition, despite some unfavorable forecasts regarding its outcome, nevertheless ended, even if not in

In April of this year, a number of mass media reported about the order by the Russian Ministry of Defense of a new type of aviation equipment. The domestic military intends to receive a heavy unmanned aerial vehicle designed for air strikes. Has appeared before