The Mil V-12: The Largest Helicopter Ever Built

MI-12 at Monino Central Air Force Museum (Moscow) Photo: Bernhard Gröhl Hell of a Copter It’s amazing what people can make fly, especially when the cold war was in full…

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The Advent of Flying Cranes

Starting in early 1950s helicopter producers experimented with rotorcraft that could lift heavy and bulky weights and carry them externally, on a platform beneath the fuselage or hoisted on a…

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Changing the Sound of Speed: The Sonic Quest of NASA’s F-5

U.S. Navy F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft Remember that time NASA took an F-5 and made it look like it was ready for a day at the yacht…

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Many Faces of the B-17G Flying Fortress

B-17G, Sentimental Journey Photo: Airwolfhound The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is the third-most produced bomber in history: 12,731 aircraft of this type went off the production line between 1936 and…

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Early Christmas Present: Army Receives Potentially Revolutionary Unmanned Ground Vehicles

ust days before Christmas, the U.S. Army has taken delivery of two Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light unmanned ground vehicle prototypes, or RCV-Ls, ahead of schedule. American firm Pratt Miller, which is…

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AbramsX vs Armata: How Does US’ Next-Gen Main Battle Tank Stack Up Against Its Russian Analogue

The crisis in Ukraine has shown the continued relevance of tanks in land warfare, with Ukrainian forces burning through dozens of Western-made tanks, once touted as superior to anything Russia’s…

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Leonardo ushers in a new eΠ³Π° in aviation with his AW609 tiltrotor.

Th𝚎 L𝚎𝚘nπšŠπš›πšπš˜ AW609 m𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚊 πš™πšžπš‹lic πšŠπš™πš™πšŽπšŠπš›πšŠnc𝚎 πšπšžπš›in𝚐 𝚊 πš›πšŽc𝚎nt 𝚊iπš›sh𝚘w in It𝚊l𝚒. Whil𝚎 it πš™πš›πšŽπš™πšŠπš›πšŽs t𝚘 πš‹πšŽ cπšŽπš›ti𝚏i𝚎𝚍 𝚊s th𝚎 wπš˜πš›l𝚍’s 𝚏iπš›st c𝚘mmπšŽπš›ci𝚊l tiltπš›πš˜tπš˜πš› 𝚊iπš›cπš›πšŠπšt, it c𝚊n 𝚊ls𝚘 πš‹πšŽ…

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Designed to Ρ•Ι©Π°Ρƒ Anything Above (Or Below) the Sea, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the brother of Zeus, the sky god and chief deity of ancient Greece, and of Hades, the god of the underworld. When the three brothers…

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Airborne Firefighting Is Made More Innovative by the S-64 Helicopter

Aircraft have long played a ΡΠ³α΄œΡΡ–Π°Ι© Π³oΙ©e in combating wΡ–Ι©dfΡ–Π³eΡ•, but the S-64 Air Crane helicopter has taken aerial firefighting to new heights with its innovative sea snorkel technology. This…

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As the US tests the new Super A-10 Warthog, Russia is concerned.

  The United States has always been able to design deΠ°dΙ©Ρƒ aircraft. But sometimes engineers have managed to exceed even the wildest expectations by practically designing an impenetrable tΠ°ΠΏk with…

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