Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 / МиГ-105

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105.11 test orbital vehicle, also known as Experimental Passenger Orbital Aircraft – EPOS (экспериментальный пилотируемый орбитальный самолет – ЭПОС), exhibited in the Central Air Force Museum in Monino, Moscow area. The idea of an orbital spaceplane, that could be easily adopted for military purposes, was born as early as 1920s. One of the... Read More

PAK DA engines to be tested this year

According to the information released by ´Rostec´ state corporation, the tests of engines for the new Russian long-range strategic bomber system PAK DA will start at the end of 2020. The engines will be mounted at the Ilyushin Il-76LL test-bed aircraft (´LL´ stands for Летающая лаборатория – ´flying laboratory´) and the contract of value... Read More

100 aircraft for Russian Air Force in 2020

At the beginning of new year 2020, the Ministry of Defence of Russian Federation released an official information regarding the ongoing modernization of the Russian Aerospace Forces inventory. According to this release, in 2020 the Russian Air Force is going to receive approximately 100 new or modernized aircraft. A few other information, focused on... Read More

XIV International Aviation and Space Salon – a short overview of MAKS-2019

XIV International Aviation and Space Salon (Международный авиационно-космический салон), usually also called ´MAKS-2019´, was held at Zhukovsky International Airport / Gromov Flight Research Institute, Moscow area, between 27th August and 1st September 2019. The 14th edition of the biggest aviation event in Russia, being both the air show and trade fair, attracted more than... Read More

Rostec completed the delivery of attack helicopters for 2019

Russian Helicopters company announced that the delivery of over 20 attack helicopters to the Russian Ministry of Defence was finalized recently, and therefore the manufacturing company fully completed the state defence contract for 2019. All rotorcrafts successfully passed acceptance tests and were added to the Russian Aerospace Forces inventory. ´The companies that are the... Read More

State tests of Mi-26T2V started

Russian Helicopters holding company recently announced that, with the participation of representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defence, the joint state tests of Mi-26T2V heavy-lift military transport helicopter just started and are to last until the end of 2020. The first, modernized, Mi-26T2V rotorcraft was produced in 2018, as a part of Russian Helicopters... Read More

´Centre-2019´ – Russia hosted the joint multinational exercise of SCO countries

Between 16th and 21st September, at several locations in Russia and other SCO countries, the multinational Strategic Command and Staff Exercise ´Centre-2019´ (Центр-2019) was held. All eight member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation were participating, deploying almost 130,000 of military personnel, 20,000 vehicles and 600 aircraft. The main part of the exercise was... Read More

Another edition of ´BARS´ joint tactical exercise successfully completed

Another edition of joint Serbian – Russian air force tactical exercise, codenamed ´BARS´ was held between 30th October and 2nd November 2019, at ´Privolzhskiy´ air base near Astrakhan. The exercise was performed with the participation of MiG-29 fighter aircraft and Mi-8AMTSh helicopters from air force and army aviation of both countries. The fifth edition... Read More

The ´Blackjacks´ are visiting South Africa

Exactly on the same day when Vladimir Putin, the President of Russian Federation, opened the first ever Russia-Africa Economic Forum in Sochi, a pair of Tupolev Tu-160 ´White Swan´ strategic bombers (NATO reporting name ´Blackjack´) arrived to Waterkloof air force base near Pretoria, South Africa. Those two supersonic nuclear bombers that arrived at South... Read More

Tactical exercise ´Union Shield – 2019´

Between 13th and 19th October 2019, the joint exercise of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus and Russian Federation, codenamed ´Union Shield – 2019´ (Щит Союза-2019), was held at Mulino training area, located in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. It was reported that more than 12,000 of military personnel participated in the exercise,... Read More