This was apparently being developed for the Soviet T-4 and DSB-LK hypersonic bomber and were also planned for the Tu-160.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-45
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5CYLk6B5Y&t=500s
In the 80s, when the AdA withdrew its Mystère IVAs from service, some of them received somewhat special liveries !o_O
It seems that one was painted in the colours of a fictitious Arab air force.
Is there any picture of it ? :)
View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/34357274081
Many Tu-22M squadron fire cruise missile raid on enemy target and Japanese SHINKANSEN devastation screen shot from Japanese animation ″Future War 198X″.
This post added Japanese SHINKANSEN devastation screen shots.
This thread was created to discuss the projects, plans, facilities, operations, and historical implications of the German interwar flight test center and military pilot training school that was developed in secrecy between the Germans and the Russians. This airfield played an important role in...
Since the end of the First World War, bold attempts were made in the Soviet Union in the field of rockets and various types of weapons, although timid, but existing and somewhat significant for the hard period that the Union was going through at that time, sometimes typically handcrafted and...
I've read numerous books on Cold War histories, which included mention of Soviet air combat tactics, however I've not found one source that described the various air-to-air or air-to-ground tactics that the Soviets employed during the Cold War (either the USSR or their Warsaw Pact allies). This...
Grigorii Ivanovich Bakshayev was interested in the concept of variable geometry aircraft, where the size and/or shape of wings are altered according to the stage of flight, or desired characteristics. There are many methods of achieving this but one of the simplest is the telescopic wing, where...
Pretty simple, what if the Russians don't flip flop around with their 5th gen program and decide to keep developing the Mig 1.44?
Would they have a 5th gen(ish) aircraft earlier? what would it's export potential be? how effective would it be?
my 2 cents are
It would be operational earlier that...
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Ta 183 with fences.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1953-Press-Photo-Russian-Air-Force-MIG-Fighter-Jets-mjc44436/402190624524?hash=item5da46de70c:g:mJgAAOSwC7NegGHY
Hi all,
some time ago I find a very brief description of soviet balloon bombers of the '50-'60; they intended to use them in the same way the American used the GENETRIX and MELTING POT balloons for recce flights over the USSR...
Here is a list of all known M-8 family designations from Catalogue of aeronautical products and systems (it has been translated, reorganized and reordered according to the sequence of the Western alphabet). I am pretty certain however that additions and corrections will inevitably happen!
V-8...
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Hi everybody,
I'm looking for information about soviet decoy missiles launched from bombers, if any.
In the USA during the Cold War there were some projects about decoy missiles (i.e. the ADM-20 Quail or the Convair MX-2223), but I didn't find any info about similar projects in the Soviet Union...
Model of Sukhoi S-90-200 from USSR-Russian Aviation and Space Collectibles.
Description:
Source: http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_39_49&products_id=715
Vladimir Sergeevich Ilyushin was born on 31 March, 1927, the eldest son of leading Soviet aircraft designer Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Ilyushin's father was a favoured member of the Soviet establishment. It may be noted that aircraft designer Tupolev blamed Ilyushin's father for the...
1) The “S” aircraft general arrangement drawings approved in 1937.
Variants of the “S” aircraft proposed in 1937:
2) - reconnaissance aircraft with range of the flight before 2200км
3) – attack aircraft (maximum arms 20 Ultra SHKAS)
4) – near-bomber
5) – heavy fighter (anti-bomber). Soviet...
These drawings were obtained from a book I ordered several years ago from Avia Press. Sorry, I can't identify specific sourse.
They were shown in a book on the T-4 Sotka, and only shpwed the over head view.Thw book was in Russian so I can't give any details.
I would like to know if these are...
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