Aero Ae-45S Super (DM-SGF, formerly HA-DMD, c/n 04-013), on display at Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, June 2018. A few months ago, within this weekly series, we have already introduced the history of Ae-45 / Ae-145 light utility […]
A joint Russian-Chinese operational and strategic exercise Sibu/Interaction 2021 (Russian: Сибу/Взаимодействие–2021, Chinese: 西部·联合-2021) was successfully concluded last week in China. That training was considered to be another milestone of the military cooperation between those countries, […]
On 10th August 2021, at Harb-Maidon training area in Tajikistan, the main stage of joint Russian-Tajik-Uzbek exercise was launched. That military training of motorized rifle units from all the three participating countries, supported by artillery […]
BAE Systems Hawk Mk 65A (8817, 8811, 8806) of the Saudi Hawks Aerobatic Team at LOTOS Gdynia Aerobaltic 2019 Three of seven BAE Systems Hawk Mk 65A of Saudi Hawks Aerobatic Team ready for take-off […]
At the end of July 2021, Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of ´Gazprom’ Management Committee and Andrey Boginsky, Director General of ‘Russian Helicopters’ holding have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement for supply of the first Russian-made […]
6 August 1941 – night-ramming of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber by V.V. Talalikhin. Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin (Виктор Васильевич Талалихин) was born on 18th September 1918 in Tepolvka village, near Saratov. In 1934, his […]
AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat HMA2 (c/n 481, ZZ396, Fleet Air Arm / Royal Navy), static exhibition during the 100th anniversary of the German Naval Aviation, Nordholz air base, August 2013. Westland Lynx multipurpose military rotorcraft – […]
In July of this year, Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) and Russian Post has concluded an agreement in regard to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for delivering cargo within the Chukotka Autonomous District. […]
In the last days of July, helicopter crews of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defence were deployed to combat forest fires in Karelia. Mi-8 helicopters equipped with water buckets, being a […]
François Durafour, a Swiss aviation pioneer, was born on 27th November 1888 in Geneva. After completing his mechanical studies, Durafour initially worked at Ateliers Sécherons and then in 1910 he was employed as Hanriot aeroplane […]
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