According to Moscow's Tass news agency, the first contracts for the export version of Russia's fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet have reportedly been signed. This was also announced to Russian journalists by Rosoboronexport Director General Alexander Mikheev during his visit to…

United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has delivered new Su-35 and Su-57 aircraft to the Russian Aerospace Forces. The fifth-generation Su-57 Felon fighters have been accepted by technical staff, undergone a complete factory testing cycle, and were evaluated in various operational modes…

Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets currently deployed in Lithuania have intercepted a Russian Il-20 Coot-A, ISR radar reconnaissance and electronic intelligence aircraft operating over the Baltic Sea. The Il-20M Coot was monitored, as it flew through the Lithuanian Flight…

MAKS : Международный авиационно-космический салон,  Mezhdunarodnyj aviatsionno-kosmiche ("International Aviation and Space Show") is the international airshow of V-VS (Russian air force) which is hold every two years in the Zhukovsky airport, home of the Gromov Flight Research Institute, around 70km…

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale registered the records set by the test pilots of Yakovlev Design Bureau flying Yak-130 combat trainer. The batch of the record flights was performed at the airfield of Gromov Flight Research Institute from 17 to 26 October…

According to the Russian news agency TASS, Russia’s defence ministry plans to sign a contract for a pre-production batch of fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jets. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said "we are buying Su-57 jets for test combat…

At the end of January 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin was present in Kazan to attend the first demonstration flight of the updated version of the strategic Tu-160 bomber. In 2015, it was decided to resume production of the Tu-160M…

The Su-30M2 fighters and Su-34 bomber of the SMD Air Force and Defence Army’s mixed air formation have practised conveyor aircraft landing on a highway for the first in Rostov region within the flight tactical exercise. Pilots of air task…

Yesterday, Monday 15 January 2018, RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Typhoon aircraft scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth to monitor two Russian strategic bombers approaching UK airspace. The Russian Air Force Blackjack Tupolev Tu-160 long-range bombers were not talking to air traffic…

Russia’s PAK FA (T-50) Sukhoi SU-57 flew on 5th December 2017 for the first time with the NPO Saturn “Product 30” engine, which will be the production standard engine for the new russian fifth generation stealth combat aircraft. The flight, from…

During the month of November Russian Tu-22M3 long-haul bombers delivered several airstrikes on terrorists’ targets and facilities in Syria to destroy their military capabilities. In each mission six Tu-22M3 russian strategic bombers took off from an airfield in Russia and delivered…

The newest multifunctional aviation complex of radar surveillance and guidance (RLDN) A-100 made its first flight. On November 18, 2017, made the first flight from the aerodrome Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex. G.M. Beriev (part of the UAC), the…

As reported by the TASS, the Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber prototype, number 804, originating from Soviet aircraft breakthroughs will take to the skies for the first time from the airfield of the Kazan Aviation Enterprise in February 2018, a source in the…