LoooSeR Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 https://thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2020/12/close-up-of-newest-iranian-a2g-qaem-114.html https://imp-navigator.livejournal.com/976556.html New Iranian Ghaem-114 air to ground missile/ATGM. Claimed to be already in service. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 Hard to call it news when it's about more than 20 years old situation, but anyway retired Lieutenant Colonel Charlie “Tuna” Hainline, an F-117 pilot, said that in April 1999 his wingman was hit by Serbian SAM over Belgrade but managed to get back to base. According to him he saw two SAMs, one exploded and the other "kind of went into space". According to the article he was awarded DFC for managing the tanker randevous with the crippled bird. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37894/yes-serbian-air-defenses-did-hit-another-f-117-during-operation-allied-force-in-1999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 12, 2020 Report Share Posted December 12, 2020 Not sure where to post - in news or in humour thread... because this shit is both real and so stupid that it is funny. Quote ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 7 - RIA Novosti. Unknown persons opened the cargo hatch and stole equipment from the "Doomsday plane" at the airfield in the Rostov region. Quote As the representative of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the North Caucasian Federal District told RIA Novosti, a representative of the Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex addressed the police. The interlocutor of the agency added that a check is being carried out. A RIA Novosti source said that the matter concerns the Il-80 aircraft, which was undergoing maintenance, radio equipment disappeared from it. Il-80 is a command post created on the basis of the Il-86 airliner. It is designed to control troops in a nuclear war, it is called the "Doomsday aircraft". Beriev Aircraft Company is part of the United Aircraft Corporation and specializes in the development, production, modernization and repair of amphibious aircraft and special aviation complexes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 16, 2020 Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 Russian MS-21-310 with Russian-made PD-14 engines made it's first flight. MS-21-310 is an attempt to re-enter into civilian passangers planes market. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted January 24, 2021 Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 https://vz-ru.turbopages.org/vz.ru/s/news/2021/1/24/1081661.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop New long range interceptor is in development to replace MiG-31. Quote Work is underway to create a long-range interceptor fighter, Rostec said. "The project of a promising long-range intercept aircraft complex (PAK DP) under the symbol "MiG-41" is at the stage of development work," the state corporation's website says. It is noted that the new generation aircraft will replace the long-range fighter-interceptor MiG-31. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted February 5, 2021 Report Share Posted February 5, 2021 Egypt apparently received their first SCALP cruise missiles and Talios targeting pods for their Rafales The sale had been blocked since 2018 by the US through ITAR regulations (some components of the missiles being manufactured in the US). Some sources says that the restriction were lifted by the US, others that MBDA finally managed to bypass the ITAR regulation by developing alternative components (which is an ongoing effort in the French defence industry as a whole). Not sure how many missiles will be delivered, back in 2015 discussions were about 50 missiles. Janes article say that it is likely that the range has been limited to 300 km in order to comply with the MCTR. No idea if this impact the power balance in the region at all, but that will certainly strengthen Egypt position in Lybia against Turkey. Ramlaen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reta Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Turbojet powered Spice 250 ER showcased in Aero India 2021. "A conservatively stated range of at least 150km" via janes Also lots of mumbo jumbo about AI. Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 Vietnam ordered 12 L-39NG trainers. https://www.czdefence.cz/clanek/omnipol-doda-vietnamu-12-kusu-proudovych-letounu-l-39ng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 Some more details about the Vietnamese contract. There were some douts about it due to the fact that not a long time ago Vietnam also announced to buy 12 Yak-130. Per an article in armadninoviny.cz magazin the L-39NG contract is complementary to the acquisition of Yaks. The Vietnamese training pyramide shall therefore be four-level and be very diversified. The first level is represented by American T-6 Texan II turboprops. The second level will be taken by Czech L-39NG. Third level is taken by Russian twin engine combat-trainers Yak-130 and the last one is the heavy multirole fighters Su-30MK2V. Fun fact is that the Czech NGs will go to a 910th training regiment "Julius Fučík" (second oldest Vietnamese airforce unit). Julius Fučík was Czech communist writer and journalist who was executed by Germans in 1943. https://www.armadninoviny.cz/l39ng-pro-vietnam-910.html Clan_Ghost_Bear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 Page 14-15 (slide 15-16) contains quite an interesting article about the L-39NG training system. https://www.arabianaerospace.aero/publications/128/issue1/volume1/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADC411 Posted February 20, 2021 Report Share Posted February 20, 2021 https://iz.ru/1127234/anton-lavrov-aleksei-ramm/vrag-i-gremlin-novuiu-giperzvukovuiu-raketu-ispytaiut-v-2023-godu New hypersonic missile announced, to begin testing in 2023 according to Izvestia. Codename "Гремлин" (Gremlin). Planned to be compatible with Tu-22, Su-35, Su-30SM and Su-57. Supposedly it was a mock-up of Gremlin that was announced to have been tested in the Su-57's internal bays earlier this week. Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted February 22, 2021 Report Share Posted February 22, 2021 RAF is funding a project of a modular training jet : http://aeralis.com/ Basically the idea as I understand it, is to have a common airframe for which you could switch the wings, engines (singe, twin, large single) as well as the cockpit (single/double). Apparently it would allow to use a single platform for all the stages of jet training, reducing possession costs by 30% according to the manufacturer. I don't know if this has been done before, but the idea to make a military jet modular certainly has merits especially for countries that can't afford to have a bazillion of variants in service. Of course there will be limits on performances (the ideal airframe for a fighter-bomber isn't the same than the one for an interceptor) but it is promising. http://www.opex360.com/2021/02/22/la-royal-air-force-finance-un-projet-davion-dentrainement-trois-en-un/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted February 22, 2021 Report Share Posted February 22, 2021 That sounds pretty crazy. I'm no aircraft designer but IMHO you need different shapes for subsonic and supersonic planes (not only for the wings). Im also not sure if trainers use relaxed aerodynamic stability as the fighters do. Every such module you change will move the center of gravity and hence change the stability. Such plane would probably need to be inherently unstable and only mimic the stable behavior if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted February 22, 2021 Report Share Posted February 22, 2021 I don't have the technical know how either to judge how far they can go with this idea. But I have to agree with you that at the very least it's not trivial (or it would have been done before). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 25, 2021 Report Share Posted March 25, 2021 Modern optical systems have very serious capabilities. Very high spotting range, multispectral, image processing tech is pretty impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N-L-M Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 Presumably many of those capabilities (though not the range, as that depends on aperture) could also be fit into gunner or commander optics for armored vehicles. Which is quite a step up from the low res thermals of the 1980s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 Czech AF L-159 canopy (two seater but not sure which variant) in the field. The aircraft lost it mid-air today. The crew returned to Čáslav airbase unharmed. It's second such incident, the first one happened five years ago and it was caused by a human error (since L-159 is rather extremely reliable plane I guess it's same case again). Sadly there is so far no photo/video of the cabrio ride. Source of the photo: https://www.novinky.cz/krimi/clanek/letounu-l-159-pri-letu-odpadl-kryt-kabiny-vojaci-ho-hledaji-40355215#utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sharebt&utm_campaign=web Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted May 19, 2021 Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 Two US test pilots ejected from a (soon to be) Qatari F-15QA in St. Louis. They ejected on the ground. One of them suffered minor injury, the other is unharmed. The plane seems to be quite ok. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40667/crew-ejects-from-qatari-f-15qa-fighter-while-on-the-ground-at-airport-near-st-louis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 26, 2021 Report Share Posted May 26, 2021 Vikhr-1 ATGM test fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted May 27, 2021 Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 Someone made a book about WWII bombing campaigns Maybe I should try taking off with tailwinds next time... N-L-M and Beer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted May 27, 2021 Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 A Swiss F-5 Tiger II crashed today, pilot ejected. It was a plane of Patrouille Suisse used as OPFOR in a dogfight with F/A-18. The interesting thing is that the crash was caught on photos and mainly that the plane landed in a thick snow staying relatively intact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 If the pilot (LNA veteran of brigadier general rank) didn't die, this would be somewhat funny sketch... First Later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanch90 Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 5/26/2021 at 1:57 PM, LoooSeR said: Vikhr-1 ATGM test fire Whats the difference with the original Vikhr? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.T Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 1 hour ago, alanch90 said: Whats the difference with the original Vikhr? From what i can tell they were testing some improvements in targeting when firing at close targets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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