Category Aircrafts

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation confirmed officially that in Syria on border with Turkey the Russian fighter Su-24 was wrecked.

Let’s remind, messages that planes of the Turkish Air Force lined on border with Syria broken air space of Turkey the plane earlier arrived. Soon it became known that the fighter which has fallen to the territories of Syria, near the mountain the Turkmen, is the Russian Su-24 plane.

In the Ministry of Defence officially declared that the Russian plane Continue reading →

Four links of transport and assault Terminator Mi-8AMTSh helicopters will arrive within state defense order on arms of air base of army aircraft of "Tolmachevo" (The Novosibirsk Region), the press service of the Central military district reports

The flight and technical structure of a part already started to pass retraining on this updating.

Arrival of the first party of helicopters as a part of one link from Uhlan Udensky plant is planned in April, the others – within a year.

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In Tuva started searches of the missing on Friday, October 10, the Mi-8 helicopter. As reported RIA Novosti news agency a source in power structures of the republic, operation becomes complicated weather conditions.

«On a route of missing Mi-8 of flight bad weather – low overcast», – the interlocutor of agency told.

According to the senior assistant West Siberian transport prosecutor Oksana Gorbunova, onboard the helicopter there were 12 people: seven passengers-vakhtovikov, three crew members Continue reading →

For the last two decades the market of passenger planes was accurately divided. In a segment of distant aircraft the market is supervised by Airbus and Boeing, the small competition is observed and in a segment of regional planes, that is planes by capacity to 130 passengers and range of flight to 3000 km. The Canadian producer of Bombardier, the Brazilian Embraer and the French-Italian concern ATR strongly took the positions.

And here to join in game one more applicant wants. This week the first Continue reading →

The observer of The National Interest Deyv Majumdar made the list of the most killing fighters which are at war in Syria into which two Russian planes entered at once, writes RIA Novosti news agency.

In particular, Russian Su-34 who replaced the predecessor – Su-24 is called one of the most powerful. According to Majumdar, this fighter possesses powerful possibilities of self-defense "air-air", besides, along with R-73 short-range missiles it is equipped with long-range missiles and Continue reading →

This year the Ministry of Defence of Russia will receive the first set of the pendant equipment, allowing to turn the front Su-34 bomber in the specialized plane of radio-electronic fight (REB). It in interview of RIA Novosti news agency was declared by the first deputy head of KRET concern Igor Nasenkov.

«[Plane] can protect not only, but also to provide effective radio-electronic suppression of radar-tracking complexes and antiaircraft missile systems, planes of distant radar-tracking patrol Continue reading →

Helicopters of the 201st Russian military base were lifted on educational fighting alarm in the sky over Tajikistan, reports Zvezda TV channel.

The main objective of fighters consisted in search of a shelter of the conditional opponent who has been cunning disguised in a mountain landscape. Pilots operated fighting vehicles at extremely small heights. Performance of a task was complicated by deep gorges and sharp differences of heights.

Besides other, participants of maneuvers fulfilled landing Continue reading →

In the flight qualities of a humming-bird surpass helicopters, scientists found out. They compared birds to the tiny – is powerful in only 16 grams – bespilotniky Black Hornet Nano which is used by army of Great Britain for investigation. Results of tests are presented in the last issue of Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Researchers from Stenfordsky and Vageningensky universities tested flight characteristics in a soaring mode in air at 26 birds representing 12 different types, in the Continue reading →

The American fighter of the fifth generation of F-35 Ligthing II got to a rating of the most unsuccessful fighters of the USA, made by the military-political The National Interest edition.

This plane is issued for years later, than it is necessary, the budget on its creation is unreasonably inflated, and the car will not combine all characteristics promised by designers, writes the edition. It was supposed that multipurpose F-35 will replace at once some types of highly specialized planes, the Continue reading →

The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic intends to declare the tender for purchase of new transport helicopters which will replace out-of-date Mi-17, Mi-171 and Mi-24 of the Soviet and Russian construction in 2015. About it as reports Defense News, head of department Martin Stropnitsky declared.

He told to journalists that the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic is ready to pay to 350 million Czech korunas (15,8 million dollars) for the helicopter. Deliveries it is planned to carry Continue reading →