Aviation

The T-50\PAK FA boasts a number of unique features as compared with previous-generation fighters, and combines the functions of a strike aircraft and a fighter. This fifth-generation airplane is equipped with an entirely new set of deeply-integrated avionics featuring a high level of controlled automation and intelligent crew support.    History from UAC: The Su-57 took…

A Sukhoi 30 fighter bomber from the 121st Fighter Squadron crashed in this evening during a routine exercise near a village called Mechta Draa Tafza district of Ain Zitoun, wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi, in the north-east of Algeria. The pilot and the navigator unfortunately did not survive the accident. This is the first time…

Russia’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter is the world’s sole gunship that has received a broadband communications suite, which provides for high-speed data transmission, CEO of RTI Group Pavel Laptayev told TASS: «We are developing a broadband communications system for helicopters. It is mounted on the Ka-52 helicopter as a communications suite. The Ka-52 is the…

January 17, 1970 the first flight of the Su-24 test machine (T-6-2I) took place. The Sukhoi Su-24 is supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft with a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its crew of two. Its modernized versions are still in service with the Russian Air Force. The aircraft with internal name T-6…