February 16, 2024 First flight of the Partizan UAV, Novosibirsk, Yeltsovka airfield / Photo: © TsAGI press service On February 16, 2024 in Novosibirsk at the Yeltsovka experimental aviation airfield, […]
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The combination of the S-400 airborne radar and air defence systems allows mass destruction of Ukrainian aviation
Photo by © Department of Mass Communications of the Defense Ministry of Russia On 22 October, Rostec’s press service announced that the Russian Armed Forces had received another upgraded A-50U […]
Read moreHard times of Russian light aviation
© Alexander Markin / russianplanes.net / The SP-30 short take-off and landing aircraft. Archive photo How many domestic types of light aircrafts – up to nine passengers – can you […]
Read moreIn Orel, noise standards on the terrain of a promising supersonic aircraft were discussed
© Russian Aviation / TsAGI supersonic business jet model, MAKS-2017 / Archive photo Creation of high-speed air passenger transport is a topic that is in the focus of attention of […]
Read moreIn 2023, Rolls-Royce achieved what the USSR did in 1988
Photo by Creative Commons license Rolls-Royce has announced that it has reached a major milestone in the development of “cleaner sources of aviation fuel, namely hydrogen”. Tests conducted in partnership […]
Read moreThe Russian Air Force has received another A-50U long-range radar system
Photo by © Rostec press service Roselektronika Holding and the United Aircraft Corporation have delivered to the Russian Armed Forces another modernised A-50U long-range radar surveillance and guidance system. As […]
Read moreIL-76MDK is planned to be used for weightlessness training of cosmonauts until 2030
Photo by © Yuri Kakurkin / russianplanes.net The Cosmonaut Training Centre will use the existing IL-76MDK laboratory aircraft for weightlessness training until at least 2030. This was reported to TASS […]
Read moreBe-200 aircrafts are involved in extinguishing a natural fire in Gelendzhik
Photo by © Ministry of Emergency Situations Press Service The area of the natural fire in Gelendzhik has reached 30 hectares, the aeromobile group of the territorial subdivision of the […]
Read moreBe-12P-200: from anti-submarine to firefighting aircraft
Photo by © Sergei Popsuevich / airliners.net On 9 August 1996, the first flight of the Be-12P-200 aircraft, a flying laboratory designed to test the fire-fighting system of the Be-200 […]
Read moreTo fight natural fires in Yakutia and the Magadan Region, Be-200 and An-26 aircraft are involved
Photo by © Ministry of Emergency Situations Press Service In Yakutia and the Magadan Region artificial precipitation is summoned to fight fires in these regions, special aerial sounding planes which […]
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