Preparation to the international aviation show MAKS is now at its final stage. New participants keep coming every day and aerobatic teams are busy with training. Airbus A-380, the largest passenger airplane in the world, is going to arrive today.
The giant will land at the air field in Zhukovsky. This very liner is used for teaching pilots and testing perspective airplane systems.
A. Bunka here. What, no Boeing planes were there?
There was a b-52 actually… so there was a boeing.
Boeing will arrive, en masse, just before the show.
Better that way. Less chance for espionage
The F-22 knock off is the most intereting one there.
What makes you think its a knock-off! If you really looked closely you would find nothing from the F-22 that was crudely copied on the Pak Fa.
It def. looks better than f-22
Just for you knowledge russians had sold Yak engines to USA, and YAK = F, surprise!
Read about it before posting – http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2010-01.html . Pak Fa is entirely different than F22. F22 gets a critical failure every 1,7 flight hour, is vulnerable to rain and so forth.
Well,if Russia can ever produce enough to field a squardron we may see how good it is. I am sure the bulk of the production will be sold to Iran or Syria. I am sure they will preform as well as the rest of the Russian aircraft those type of countries purchase.
yada, yada, yada…
“PREPARATION to the international aviation show MAX is now at its final stage.”
The show is from the 16th to the 21st of August this year.
Is the first picture of a Beriev A-40 of the Russian Navy? That is the largest amphibious plane I have ever seen.
Appears as though it is going to be a very interesting air show. Good Luck!!!
I thought that the airshow is usually transliterated as MAKS.
I wish them all “BLUE SKIES”.
Russians, masters of the skies!
When was the last time the Russian Air Force fought a serious foe? Perhaps when their pilots were flying for the Vietnamese or the north Koreans. The Russian Air Forces haven’t faced a serious test since WW2
You can say the same about US pilots fighting Iraqui and Afghan pilots (?). In your own words, the Russian (and American) Air Forces haven’t faced a serious test since WW2.
And what serious enemy has the USAF faced since WWII. None.
If you are contemplating a US vs Russia scenario then you are talking about a full-scale global war. The last one ended in 1945. After that the USAF has never faced a serious enemy in actual air-to-air combat.
And no, the Iraqis don’t count because they had, what 500 fighters, most of them dating back to the late 60′s and early 70′s.
Impressive look of A380, nice airliner!
@testicules: You’re hilarious! The F-22′s budget breaking production was cancelled because it has to be grounded most of the time for reparations! (er, maintenance)… Nobody wants to copy that. So much for your tax slurping goose. The weird F-35 will be the real “rival” of the Su-T50. Good luck.
Well at the moment the F-22 and the F-35 are both grounded at the moment due to technical problems…….
You can hate all you want. It is still better than anything anyone has in the air and it is deployed en masse. What price is air superiority worth? By the time Russia and China deploy squadrons of their new fighters, the US will be in the next generation and will be using air superiority drones with better capabilities. Russia has been and will remain behind the curve. Sorry to burst your bubble
I hope you can balance your budget. Otherwise, the only next generation you’ll see will be of Chinese Bankers.
I don’t think your government can borrow more mpney from the Chinese to make new gadgets that don’t fly. Sorry to burst your bubble.
sorry to pop your bubble. But there are just a 180 or so F-22s, and no more are coming. And F-22s are so accident prone, they have to be serviced after what, every 2 hours of flight time?
Check out some info about a RAND Corporation analysis on Raptors vs Flankers. I think it was a exercise called the Pacific Vision or something like that, I’m not sure.
“The weird F-35 will be the real “rival” of the Su-T50″
… have to wait till Dec. 2015.