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    Air arms around the world reacted to multiple challenges during 2011, despite fleet and budget cuts. We list the current inventories and procurement plans of 160 nations.


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  • Joint response: World Air Forces Directory introduction

    17:10 14 December 2011

    Air arms around the world reacted to multiple challenges during 2011, despite fleet and budget cuts. We list the...


  • Georgian conflict may trigger Russian fleet upgrade

    17:00 18 August 2008

    Four confirmed aircraft losses during a five-day air war with Georgia suggest that Russia underestimated its former...


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  • Joint response: World Air Forces Directory introduction

    News | 14 Dec 2011 17:10 | Craig Hoyle

    Air arms around the world reacted to multiple challenges during 2011, despite fleet and budget cuts. We list the current inventories and procurement plans of 160 nations.http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Joint-response-World-Air-Forces-Directory-introduction-366005/

  • VIDEO: Su-27 crashes at Radom Air Show

    News | 30 Aug 2009 13:57 | David Kaminski-Morrow

    Two Sukhoi Su-27 pilots have thought to have died after their aircraft crashed while displaying at the Radom Air Show in Polandhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/VIDEO-Su-27-crashes-at-Radom-Air-Show-331659/

  • Georgian conflict may trigger Russian fleet upgrade

    News | 18 Aug 2008 17:00 | Vladimir Karnozov

    Four confirmed aircraft losses during a five-day air war with Georgia suggest that Russia underestimated its former ally's air defence capabilities, and...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Georgian-conflict-may-trigger-Russian-fleet-upgrade-314826/

  • Russian air force suspends Su-25 flights

    News | 03 Jul 2006 23:00

    <P>The Russian air force has suspended all operations by Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft, following the fatal crash of an Su-25 near Bryansk, in western Russia on 28 June, says Russian air force assistant commander-in-chief Col Alexander Drobyshevsky.</P> <P>“Commander-in-chief Gen Vladimir Mikhailov decided to suspend Su-25 flights, until the crash in the Bryansk region has been investigated,” Drobyshevsky says.</P> <P>The Su-25 pilot, Lt Col Andrei Vakhovsky, a deputy regiment commanding officer, with 2,000 flight hours, reported that he felt unwell and stopped responding to ground controllers immediately before the accident, Drobyshevsky says.</P> <P>His wingman told him to eject, but he failed to respond and his aircraft crashed into the forest, killing the pilot.</P> <P>The aircraft was one of four on a routine flight from the Buturlinovka airfield in the Voronezh region. </P> <P>The Russian air force routinely grounds all aircraft of a type following a crash until an explanatiohttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Russian-air-force-suspends-Su-25-flights-207613/

  • NAPO looks to participate in Russian RJ project

    News | 03 Apr 2003 08:01 | Tom Zaitsev

    <body lang=EN-GB style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Russia’s Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Organisation (NAPO) is priming for the manufacture of the Boeing-supported regional aircraft planned by defence concern Sukhoi.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Until recently, NAPO had been a state-owned enterprise with the controlling stake held by the regional government. It specialises in the assembly of Antonov turboprops and Sukhoi Su-24 and Su-34 fighter aircraft.<u1:p></u1:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Last year, Sukhoi acquired a 74.5% stake in NAPO with a view to fitting it into its military-to-civil conversion programme, centred on developing a family of regional aircraft in co-operation with Ilyushin and Yakovlev.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:ahttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/NAPO-looks-to-participate-in-Russian-RJ-project-268080/

  • Russia allocates more funds for equipment acquisition

    News | 20 Nov 2001 00:00

    <p>VLADIMIR KARNOZOV / MOSCOW</p> <p>Russia will allocate 68 billion roubles ($2.3 billion) for equipment acquisition next year, more than envisaged earlier this year. </p> <p>The extra spending will fund the purchase of attack helicopters, communications systems and reconnaissance equipment, says Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov. </p> <p>Meanwhile, finance minister Aleksei Kudrin says: "This year is going to be the first in the new Russian history when the military spending has been provided on time and in full." </p> <p>Although the details of the military budget remain secret, it is understood the bulk of investment will go to acquiring Topol-M mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles to replace ageing silo-based missiles. </p> <p>It is also believed that next year an effort will be made to finish assembly of 12 Kamov Ka-50 attack helicopters, order several new and upgraded MilMi-8MTKO Hip and Mil Mi-24VK Hind helicopters and upgrade TupolevTu-95MS Bear strategic bomberhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Russia-allocates-more-funds-for-equipment-acquisition-139092/

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