russian air force

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/sukhoi-unveils-modified-s-71-attack-uav-concepts Sukhoi has received approval from the Russian Defense Ministry to begin producing the S-71 air-launched UAV, which has undergone significant design changes based on lessons from the...

Apparently, Russian AF and helicopter crew members prefer the Japanese Yaesu VHF AM handie-talkies over the R-855 ELT's. Does it mean that the R-855s are unreliable? Photo below found somewhere on the web.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/20/ukraine-news-russia-war-putin-martial-law-strikes-drones/ Apparently a genuine malfunction, but the incident hasn't helped present tensions any.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57583363 Article update:

While scrolling through wikipedia, something caught my attention. A Russian aircraft project named "PAK ShA" a proposed replacement to the aging Su-25. It was also called "??? PSS". Since there's literally no info on the web, i wonder if anyone has any information about it, it would be...

Not sure you’d see many western aircraft transported like this. https://theaviationist.com/2019/10/31/wait-what-what-is-a-russian-sukhoi-su-34-doing-driving-along-the-road/

Let the fun begin :) Source: http://paralay.iboards.ru/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2683&start=150&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Russians Scramble To Edit Wikipedia So The Kremlin's Claims Make Sense I note that on the English-language Wikipedia page for the Su-25, there's this bit of wisdom: Does the exchange rate between feet and meters change at lower altitude?

The Russians appear to be saying that LO/stealth technology is not worth the time and investment--or they have given up on developing it into a "Next Generation" bomber for industrial and technical reasons...

http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-797.html

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/russia-considers-funding-mig-29-successor-394022/ Russia is to build a new lightweight fighter, deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin told parliamentary deputies on 11 December. “There already is the task in our rearmament programme of creating a...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/25/russia.uk.intercepts/index.html?hpt=T2 Is this just payback for all the times we did it to them over the years?

Model of Ilyushin Il-112V on display at MAKS 2007. Source: http://www.avia-n-aero.ru/photo.php?category_id=587&parent_id=564

Last month's DTI carried a blurb on the Mig-31 BM . the last line talked about the Mig-31 BM's ability to counter stealth cruise missiles and Hypersonics. In this context I propose to start a discussion as to how the Mig-31 BM may indeed accomplish the same.

Interesting. I seem to recall there was a proposed Russian cruise missile design that also used a propfan. The ol' memory is a bit fuzzy on the details, but I seem to recall some sort of mid-fuselage mounted prop.........

I am new, and an fan of airplanes since I was a little child. First of all congratulations to everybody for the great posted subjects. Now I would like to open a new topic to discuss about the following: Thread to discuss Tu-160 avionics. I am particularly keen to learn about navigation and...

Thread to discuss Tupolev Tu-160 based projects.