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We know that the US has been flying covertly obtained Russian (and possibly Chinese) military aircraft at locations like Groom Lake since the 1950s, but does anyone have any information about US aircraft recovered by the Russians? I know the Russians obtained several intact examples of the F-86...

Before Sukhoi got the nod to build the Russian Regional Jet, I remember seeing a photo in Air International from somebody/something called Irkutsk that was offering a lifting-body short haul jet. Any body have any info?

I've always been interested in the US DoD impressions, mostly paintings during the Cold War, of Soviet aircraft, ships and land-based systems. Often they weren't far off the mark but other times they were widely inaccurate, sometimes for political reasons to justify the DoDs expenditure. The...

Hi, Antonov SKV VTOL aircraft project which led to develope An-14;

It's been great to browse Paralay's new site and be able to pick up things so quickly and easily. This caught my eye; it's half of an image showing preliminary designs for the MiG-29 from 1971 and 1972. Are there any any other sources for these? The clear progression from a -25 to a -29-style...

Big surprise, anther mystery project to me,and I think most of the members don't know it, it was Biesnovat 6 ;an unmanned supersonic aircraft which fitted with U-400-10 engine,it was under construction in 1946.

Hi, somebody have information about this ship. Project 11990 test ship and Project 13040 Anchor. will be escort of nuclear power carrier.

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.........

As requested by styx... The MAZ-7906 and MAZ-7907 were 16x16 and 24x24 wheeled chassis respectively, intended as TELs for the "Tselina-2" road-mobile variant of the SS-24 ICBM. The MAZ-7906 from 1984 had a diesel engine and the MAZ-7907 from 1985 a 1,200 hp gas turbine with electric...

Nice pics and an article here: http://www.from-ua.com/technology/44e58b7566a88/ Will post a translation later...

Hi, a little known aircraft to MiG : MiG-115: was a single-turboprop staggered and unbraced biplane utility aircraft. MiG-125: light business jet powered by two Williams-Rolls FJ-44 turbofans engines.

Dear Overscan, by the way the Ilyushin Il-74 and Il-27 were mentioned in english site, www.mda.org.uk/aircraft/9489.htm

I found two Lockheed projects to start the topic Source: Avion (magazine) January 1959 No more information given ???

For counter Ticonderoga Class, Soviet also want a new class fighting ship which could be build in scores. Afterall, the Kirov class is too expensive. So here we see a new class that looks nuch similar with Ticonderoga. [EDIT: Not a real project - MODERATOR]

Do you know that designer ? Gashulyak,Yaroslav his name isn't mention in the book THE OSPREY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT 1875-1995. He designed and built the G-1 a single seat helicopter, which powered by Irbit two-cylinder motor-cycle engine in spring of 1961.

As freaky as it is it's gotta be Russian ;) (The name probably says it all but any background on this?)

The LFI was supposed to be developed alongside the MFI as a lightweight, single engine, cheaper version. To save money, however, the LFI program was suspended, as it shared the MFI configuration the initial 1.44 prototype would serve to verify the basic airframe design. The intention was that...

TsNII claim to be the institute with "stealth" experience. They claim to have reduced the RCS of Tu-160, S-37, and Kh-101 by factors of 6, 10, and 14 from the original designs. Chelomei are supposed to have intended to use a Plasma Stealth generator called "Marabou" on their 3M25 Meteorit missile.

In the begining of 1980s, when I-90 program was given to MiG without any sign of contest, OSKBES MAI headed by Kazimir Zhidovetzky have to choose if to continue works mainly related to ESUPS (Trust Augmented Wing Concept) , in interests of Sukhoi OKB with their Sh-90 program, or for MiG with...

Well, we all know the 1.44 demonstrator. But how did Mikoyan arrive at this configuration? What was the design evolution? What might the production 1.42 look like? What about the Sukhoi and Yakovlev designs? First- from Yefim Gordon's Nowe Su i MiG published in Polish by PKL, a TsAGI...