Photo by © UAC The fifth-generation Checkmate light fighter, which Sukhoi is working on, is being prepared for production of the first samples. The design documentation has already been transferred […]
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Category: Military aviation
To the anniversary of the first flight of the Tu-95 strategic missile carrier
Photo by © UAC On November 12, 1952, the first flight of the prototype of the Tu-95 strategic bomber took place. The machine was lifted into the sky by the […]
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The Su-57 has received a long-range cruise missile
© Russian Aviation / Su-57 at MAKS-2021. Archive photo The Su-57 fighter jet has received a long-range cruise missile (LCRM) as part of its armament, which will be placed in […]
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Mikhail Strelets: the sixth generation of aircraft will be specialised in terms of the range of tasks to be performed
© Sergei Alexandrov / Concept of the 6th generation fighter aircraft, 2016. Archive photo The concept of modern multirole combat aircraft is becoming a thing of the past due to […]
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The Russian Air Force has received a batch of new Su-35S fighters
Photo by © UAC The Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has manufactured and handed over to the Russian Defence Ministry another batch of new Su-35S multirole fighters. The aircraft underwent […]
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The Russian Air Force has received another batch of Su-34 frontline bombers
Photo by © UAC The second batch of new Su-34 frontline bombers manufactured at the Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant has been handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defence. V.P. […]
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The Novosibirsk aircraft plant is carrying out repairs and modernisation of Su-34s simultaneously
Photo by © Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the progress of fulfilling the state defence order at […]
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The Russian air forces prevented the landing of the Ukrainian paratroopers in the Crimea
© Vyrtuoz / Military photos / Su-27 fighter jet. Archive photo On the night of 4 October, fighter jets of the Russian Air and Space Forces prevented the landing of […]
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What the F-35 designers were inspired by
Yak-141 – deck plane of vertical take-off and landing. Photo © Yakovlev Design Bureau archive If you compare the Yak-141 vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with the American F-35B, you […]
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UAC has handed over to the Russian Air Force the next series production Su-57 and Su-35S aeroplanes
Photo by © UAC The United Aircraft Corporation’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin has handed over to the Russian Air Force the next serial fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft and […]
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