Category Aviation

After two decades of oblivion, Russian aircraft endures the financial petrodollar Renaissance.

In 2010 of the Air Force and sea aircraft bought only 19 new planes with a motionless wing. The number of new planes increased to 24 in 2011, 35 in 2012, 51 years later, and enormous 101 in 2014. This year the Kremlin expects to get 91 new planes. But for this modernization, there is one important thing which cannot still make the Air Force of Russia.

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The Russian aviation group placed in the Syrian airfield Hemim, struck the first dot blows to objects of the international terrorist organization «Islamic state».

«Planes of the shock aircraft equipped with modern complexes of defeat, struck blows to eight objects are armouries and ammunition, combustive-lubricating materials, military equipment, management points, communication centers, vehicles of fighters of IGIL. All purposes are struck, – Continue reading →

The representative of concern «Radio-electronic technologies» Vladimir Mikheyev reported that in new updating of a strategic rocket carrier of Tu-160М2 the principle of integrated and modular avionics allowing components of onboard electronics to replace and restore each other will be used.

«In Tu-160М2 each electronic block of the plane will be capable to prosecute if necessary all subjects – for example, the complex of electronic fight can carry Continue reading →

The bomber with a wing of a changeable strelovidnost of Su-24 – the checked fighting vehicle which is capable to provide to the Russian aviagroup in Syria efficiency of distant shock operations, is told in article published in the National Interest magazine. The translation of article gives RIA Novosti news agency.

«On some Su-24 parameters (on codification of NATO of Fencer, "Fencer") can appear for carrying out operations even more Continue reading →

The light excursion airplane was gone in Nepal with the Russian pilot.

Today representatives of city airport of Pokhar in Nepal reported about loss of the light excursion airplane. According to preliminary data, plane the Russian pilot operates, onboard there is a tourist from the Republic of South Africa, reports Associated Press.

Staff of the airport tries to contact the pilot within four hours. It is thus emphasized that the plane of this Continue reading →

Probably, the passenger plane, capable to overcome a route of any extent less than in three hours, becomes reality by 2030, the correspondent of BBC Future came to a conclusion.

«It is the magic plane… from flight on it you receive almost physical pleasure», – so the stewardess of Air France airline Dzhoel Korn-Temple once expressed the British-French Concorde – one of first-ever supersonic airliners who was in operation from 1976 to 2003 and Continue reading →

The employee of Boeing aviaconcern found a way to benefit by a roar of jet engines of planes. Noise can be transformed to an electricity, it is told in the new patent. About the invention reports Gizmodo.

«Acoustic energy from flying-up and sitting-down planes dissipates in air and represents the resource lost for the person», – the engineer Chin Tokh (Chin Toh) writes.

The inventor suggests to reconstruct runways, having established on their Continue reading →

The 28th World Cup which has come to the end recently in the French city of Shatora in aerobatics in the category Unlimited appeared completely ignored by the Russian mass media. Perhaps because on present superiority of the best pilots of the world, passing time in two years, the Russian athletes the second time in a row conceded leadership to Frenchmen? To comment on last championship and the competition of pilots we asked the pilot-athlete, the Continue reading →

The aircraft of the international coalition participating in drawing of blows on positions «Islamic state» in Syria, was compelled to change a route to avoid dangerous rapprochement with the Russian plane. About it reports Reuters referring to the statement of the representative of the Pentagon Jeff Davies.

Incident, according to Davies, occurred after October 1 when the videoconference between the American and Russian military, devoted to safety Continue reading →

Washington warned Moscow from participation in the Syrian war.

The United States are concerned messages on carrying out by Russia of power operations in Syria and consider such actions "destabilizing". It to journalists was declared by the official representative of the White house Josh Ernest. «We in a course of messages that Russia, probably, developed the military personnel and planes in Syria, and we watch closely these reports. Continue reading →