Photo by © Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defence The Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft is planned to be upgraded for new means of destruction […]
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Category: Military aviation
How the integrated MiG fighter aircraft simulator works
Photo by © Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG press service Training of pilots for modern fighters costs approximately $5 million but due to development of technical aids this labour cost can […]
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Su-47 – experimental aircraft with forward-swept wing
Photo by Creative Commons license On 25th September 1997, the first flight of the Su-47 Berkut airplane with a forward-swept wing (FSW) took place. The aeroplane was flown by Sukhoi […]
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Belarus is ready to mass-produce Su-25 attack aircraft
Photo by © Alexandr Kharlanov / airplane-pictures.net The Su-25 ground-attack aircraft is not the most widely used combat aircraft of the Russian Air Force – according to various expert estimates, […]
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Su-75 Checkmate – Light Tactical Fighter
Photo by © UAC There is only one machine today in the fifth-generation single-engine fighter class in the world – the F-35 Lightning II, but this fighter is offered exclusively […]
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MQ-9 Reaper vs Su-27: From the screw! Contact! – No contact!
Freeze frame of video of MQ-9 Reaper UAV interception by Russian Su-27 The Pentagon published footage of an alleged collision between a Su-27 and an MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance strike UAV […]
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The MQ-9 Reaper UAV went down in the Black Sea after two Su-27s appeared nearby
Su-27 demonstrates its armament to American pilots. A video shot by a US Air Force pilot in 2016. The U.S. accused Russian Su-27 pilots of “unsafe and unprofessional” intercepting an […]
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From the history of the Soviet/Russian aviation: the first flight of Yak-41
Yak-141 – deck plane of vertical take-off and landing. Photo © Yakovlev Design Bureau archive On 9 March 1987 the Yak-41 prototype vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter made its […]
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U.S. prepares for spring-summer campaign on Ukrainian front
Photo by © Cpl. Ashley Beckett / U.S. Marine Corps In a latest attempt to equip Soviet MiGs with new capabilities ahead of the upcoming AFU offensive on Melitopol and […]
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So what fighter is considered a real fifth-generation aircraft?
Photo by © Aviation of Russia The debate about the Su-57 belonging to the fifth-generation fighter class does not stop in the foreign information space. Such discussions are particularly frequent […]
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