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2024
The crash of the Tu-22M3 bomber in the Irkutsk region
The Tu-22M3 bomber crashed on August 15, 2024 in the Cheremkhovsky district of the Irkutsk region near the village of Mikhailovka. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the crew members ejected, there is no threat to their lives.
The plane crashed in a deserted area outside the boundaries of the village. According to preliminary information, the cause of the accident was a technical malfunction. It is known about three ejection crew members, the fourth pilot was found at the local viaduct, he got in touch on the radio, his leg was broken.
The crash of the Su-34 in the Volgograd region
On July 27, 2024, the Su-34 fighter crashed in the Serafimovichi district of the Volgograd region during a planned training flight. Local residents posted personnel of the fire at the crash site.
The crew ejected, there is no threat to the life of the pilots. The plane crashed in a deserted area. According to preliminary data, the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction.
Su-34 crash in North Ossetia
In the highlands of the Alagir region in North Ossetia, a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed during a planned training flight.
The plane crashed in a deserted area, there is no destruction on the ground. There were two pilots on board - they died. According to preliminary data, the cause of the plane crash is a technical malfunction.
The crash of the IL-76 transport aircraft near Ivanovo
On March 12, 2024, an IL-76 transport plane crashed near Ivanovo near the Severny airfield. Judging by the personnel on the Web, the cause was the fire of one of the engines: the fire was extinguished, but then it fell off in flight.
According to preliminary data, the crew tried to reach the runway, but, unfortunately, could not. A major fire broke out at the scene of the fall. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, there were eight crew members and seven passengers on board.
The reason, most likely, was a technical malfunction.
Ukraine shoots down the Russian Il-76 with 65 prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, transported for exchange
On January 24, 2024, a Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 crashed in the Korochansky district of the Belgorod region.
A fire broke out at the scene of the fall. On board were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, whom on that day, as part of the planned exchange with the Ukrainian side, they were preparing to exchange.
The launch of an anti-aircraft guided missile on the Russian board of the Il-76 was from Kharkov from a distance of 130 km.
Ministry of Defense of Russia:
"The defeat of the Il-76 was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the area of the village of Liptsy, Kharkov region, using an anti-aircraft missile system.
Radar means of the Russian Aerospace Forces observed the launch of two Ukrainian missiles.
The Ukrainian leadership knew perfectly well that according to the established practice, today Ukrainian servicemen will be transported by military transport aircraft to the Belgorod airfield for exchange.
Nevertheless, the Nazi Kyiv regime took this step, pursuing the goal of accusing Russia of destroying the Ukrainian military. "
2023
IL-76 crash in Tajikistan
On the evening of October 20, 2023, near the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, the Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 crashed.
One of the engines caught fire at the plane, and it rolled out of the runway of Aini Airport near the city of Gissar. The crew was not injured, but the board was completely destroyed.
Video from the cockpit of a Su-25SM attack aircraft during a special operation in Ukraine
Speed - about 900 km/h, height - no more than 25 meters. In such conditions, the crews of the Su-25SM attack aircraft of the Center group perform combat missions to destroy fire weapons and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction.
The combat pairs approached the front line and struck 80 mm cumulative fragmentation unguided missiles against militants, artillery and lightly armored enemy vehicles. Launches against area targets with cabling, accompanied by sharp climb and lifting of the aircraft nose above the horizon to set the required angle to the extended missiles.
In the Bryansk region of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two Mi-8 helicopters, one Su-35 and a Su-34 fighter-bomber of the Russian Air Force were shot down in one day
On May 13, 2023, two Mi-8s, one Su-35 and one Su-34 were shot down in the Bryansk region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a planned operation, making a massive launch of missiles from the territory of the Chernihiv region.
Lost helicopters of electronic warfare Mi-8MTPR-1 with stations of active interference "Lever-AV" - used to interfere with enemy guidance stations of air defense systems and aviation, their task is to interfere with attacks of anti-aircraft and aircraft missiles at a distance of more than 150 km. But on this day, electronic warfare helicopters were sent too close to the border.
Apparently, the Mi-8MTPR-1s showed attacks by the Su-34 bomber with "smart bombs" on enemy targets in the Chernihiv region, and the Su-35 fighter carried out air cover.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot resist with the help of standard air defense methods the new tactics of Russian aviation, which massively use planning guided bombs. Therefore, Ukraine applied a new tactic of ambush on the air group.
9 soldiers died. On the outskirts of Klintsy, the fall of the Mi-8 transport killed all 3 crew members.
In the Unechsky district near the village of Volkustichi, 3 more crew members were killed in the crash of the second Mi-8 helicopter.
Under the city of Starodub, 2 pilots of the Su-34 bomber were killed.
In the village of Suretsky, Ant of the Klintsovsky district, a pilot of the Su-35 fighter was killed.
The crash of the Mi-28 helicopter in the Crimea. Two pilots died
On May 12, 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a Mi-28 combat helicopter crashed in the Dzhankoy district of the Republic of Crimea near the village of Svetloye.
According to preliminary data, the reason was the failure of equipment. The board performed a planned flight without ammunition, there is no destruction on the ground. Unfortunately, both crew members died in the crash.
2022: The first Tu-160 bomber built in the post-Soviet time "from scratch" took off
On January 12, 2022, the first bomber built in Russia in the post-Soviet time "from scratch" took off. We are talking about the Tu-160M model developed by the Kazan Aviation Plant - a branch of the Tupolev company (as part of the UAC of the Rostec state corporation). Read more here.
2021: The Russian Air Force began equipping aircraft with a domestic collision prevention system instead of the American
In May 2021, it became known about the introduction in the Air Force aircraft Russia of the domestic air collision prevention system (SPSV), which replaced the American TCAS. The technology is used to perform flights in airspace in most countries of the world. More. here
2019:806 fighter planes
1997: An-124 transport crash in Irkutsk
The An-124-100 transport aircraft 566 of the Russian Air Force operated a flight on the route Moscow - Irkutsk - Vladivostok - Kamran, but during its departure from Irkutsk, three of the four engines failed. Having risen to a height of 66 meters, the plane lost control and fell on the residential buildings of the Aviastroiteley microdistrict and completely collapsed. 72 people died (49 of them on the ground).
1990: An-124 round-the-world flight
1952: The Korean War
1941: World War II
Main article: World War II
1919
1910: The Hawk Airship
Later, on August 20, 1912, in the sky over Tsarskoye Selo, the Hawk crew consisting of: pilot staff captain Shabsky, lieutenants Tikhonravov and Kzhichevsky with mechanics, raised it to a height of 1800 m, setting a world record in the class of light airships (the volume of the Hawk is 2700 m³). Not a single light airship in Russia or abroad at that time had yet risen to such a height. The record was attested by members of the international aeronautical federation.
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