Category Aviation

One of the last American fighters of the fifth generation of Lockheer Martin F-35 cannot sustain air fight with Russian Su-35, writes the The National Interest edition.

While F-35 should become the main tactical fighter of the USA, far not each country presumes to itself a set similar expensive fighters of the fifth generation. Even Russia and China, possibly, will not try to put such fighters in a basis of the Air Force. In the Russian Federation Continue reading →

Inspectors understood the reasons of an April fire onboard the prospecting plane of the U.S. Air Force, reports CNN referring to the report published by command of military and air forces of the USA.

The carelessness of repairmen became the reason of ignition which cost to the Pentagon 62,4 million dollars. «Inability of a repair brigade to tighten the lock nut fixing an oxygen pipe with a connecting tube over onboard kitchen, led to leakage of Continue reading →

In the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain disowned from messages of a yellow press that to the British military pilots granted the right to attack the VKS Russian Federation plane in the sky over Iraq. In the press service of the British Ministry of Defence declared TASS that «do not make comments on similar statements of the press», having let know that this information is not true.

Earlier today the London tabloid of Daily Star Sunday referring Continue reading →

The Russian aircraft destroyed a congestion of armored machinery and tanks on the basis of terrorist group "Islamic state" (YOKES, the organization is forbidden in the Russian Federation) in Syria. About it on Monday, October 5, the official representative of the Ministry of Defence major general Igor Konashenkov reported.

As told in military department, about 30 units of various equipment, including grasped by fighters at the Syrian Continue reading →

Movement "Taliban" assumed responsibility for death of the American Oat-flakes S-130 plane in Afghanistan. About it reports Yahoo News.

The representative of Talibs Zabiulla Mudzhakhid declared: «Our Mujahideens brought down the four-motor American plane near Jalalabad. On reliable information, 15 interventionists and some soldier of puppet forces» were lost.

In NATO did not confirm that movement "Taliban" is involved in Continue reading →

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In Yury Lyamin’s blog the material in which it is told about typology of the ammunition applied by VKS of the Russian Federation and the Air Force of Syria around Aleppo is published. According to the blogger, it is a question of aviation bombs with self-aiming anti-tank fighting elements – RBK-500 SPBE.

Such ammunition is intended not only for effective defeat of tanks, but also for blows on BMP, the armoured personnel carrier and Continue reading →

The American pilots could observe for the first time visually the Russian colleagues on screens of an onboard radar in the sky over Syria, reports Interfax referring to the statement of the commander of the U.S. Air Force of general Charles Brown.

«Only some miles with our bespilotnik, as to piloted planes were the most short distance, distance was not closer than 20 miles (32 km)», – Brown told.

He also specified that the aircraft of the USA Continue reading →

Lukashenko publicly disavowed arrangements on creation of the Russian air base in Belarus, than cast the Kremlin management into a stupor. Creation of the Russian air base if is not cancelled finally, removed for the postelective period.

Russia opened the Syrian front on which the attention of the whole world concentrated. But when the situation will calm down, under thin ice there will be very deep water. The conflict in Donbass goes to freezing, Continue reading →

Contours of a bomber remind a huge slope which hid on depth…
I managed to visit on Novosibirsk aircraft factory of Tchkalov (NAZ), branch of JSC «the "Sukhoi" Company where make legendary SU – 34.
On March 20, 2014 Su-34 became the first warplane officially taken advantage in Post-Soviet Russia.

NATO officials call this Fullback bomber ("Defender"), our pilots, tenderly call him "Duckling" and for certain to it Continue reading →

The perspective aviation complex of front aircraft (PAK FA) T-50, the answer of Russia American F-22 and F-35, will be taken advantage in Armed forces of the Russian Federation in 2017, the commander-in-chief of department colonel general Victor Bondarev declared on days off.

«According to the plan we will finish tests next year, and in 2017 we will start to accept T-50 planes», – Bondarev told to the international news agency Sputnik News. In Continue reading →