Photo by © Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry The Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ) has manufactured and handed over to the Russian Air and Space […]
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Category: Military aviation
F-16 in Ukraine: the absurd concept of “40-kilometre frontier”
Illustration by © Digital Combat Simulator The delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine is a highly publicised event, but its impact on the course of the war may be […]
Yak-25RV. High-altitude reconnaissance and target aircraft
Yak-25RV – high-altitude reconnaissance and target aircraft / Photo by © Yakovlev Design Bureau archives In the late 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was […]
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Vertical take-off and landing fighter (VTOL). Is there a need for one right now?
Yak-38 and Yak-141 deck fighters / Photo by © Yakovlev Design Bureau archives In the field of military aviation, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft have always attracted special attention […]
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In a collision between two MiG-29s, the pilots’ lives were saved by the K-36DM ejection seat
Photo by © Martin Pole / airliners.net On 24 July 1993, at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) air show at Fairford Air Base of the British Air Force, two […]
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The accuracy of the FAB-3000 has increased considerably. Their combat power cannot be disregarded
Photo by © Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry The Russian Defence Ministry has posted a video on its Telegram channel, which shows in detail […]
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MiG-29Ks forced German Typhoons into the air over the Baltic Sea
Photo by © German Air Force On 10 July 2024, German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon fighters were put into the air to visually identify and escort two MiG-29K/KUB ship-based fighters […]
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Baltic Fleet pilots strike at enemy facilities at a training range in the Kaliningrad Region
Photo by © Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry Crews of the Baltic Fleet’s Su-30SM2 multi-role fighter jets are training at an aviation training range […]
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Military Acceptance TV showed footage of tests of concrete-piercing bombs
Close-up of the video report of the Zvezda TV channel Zvezda TV channel in one of the programmes of Military Acceptance showed footage of tests of new concrete-piercing bombs dropped […]
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Russian special services have prevented the hijacking of a Tu-22M3 bomber to Ukraine
Photo by © Dmitry Pichugin / www.aieforce.ru The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has reported the foiling of an attempt to recruit a pilot of the Russian Air […]
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