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Category: Special aircrafts
In 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 […]
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The 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 […]
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IL-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 […]
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Be-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 […]
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Be-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 […]
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To 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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Radar Reconnaissance and Guidance Aircraft Tu-126 Liana
Photo by Creative Commons license On July 4, 1958 was issued the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers 608-293 on the development of the airborne radar search and aiming […]
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Anniversary of the first flight of the IL-78 refueller
Photo by © UAC June 26, 1983 made its first flight fuel IL-78, created by the Experimental Design Bureau Ilyushin. Took off the aircraft crew honored test pilot of the […]
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An An-26 aircraft caused nine artificial rains in two days in Tomsk region
Photo by © An-26 Zyklon aircraft. Photo: © press service of Tomsk Oblast administration The number of forest fires in the Tomsk Region has increased to 41. In addition to […]
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