Thursday, September 17, 2015

Tu-160 above Scotland

On 13.09.2015, British warplanes Eurofighter Typhoon with air bases in Scotland, intercepted two Russian supersonic strategic bombers Tu-160, in the airspace above Scotland.
The bombers were on a routine flight in the area of their interest.

Monday, September 14, 2015

MAKS 2015

Last week in Russia held the super aero show and market weapons MAKS 2015. The stars were the latest stealth Sukhoi T-50 and the last version of supermaneuvering Su-27 Flanker fighter jet, Su-35S Super Flanker.  
Sukhoi T-50 flew more common and as it is still in the prototype stage was not able to compete in maneuvering with SU-35S, which in essence is his predecessor. The most interesting is that the Su-35 3D thrust vectoring nozzle, with new ALF-41 turbojet engine, working independently of each other.
Also, they was shown and the MiG-29K, which is designed to work on aircraft carriers.



Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Mozambique modernize MiG-21

Mozambique has completed overhaul and modernization of eight MiG-21 in the Romanian military and civil MRO, Aerostar S.A. In the same package are included and repair of one L-39 as well as personnel training for maintenance techniques and pilots.
In this project, which lasted about a year, repaired and modernized six single-seater and two-seater.
Every MiG received his basic modernization in the form of GPS system and modern digital flight data recorder.