The Russian Air Force

**zraver** · 05 Jan 11,, 04:58

Originally Posted by xinhui

spend sometime at Fairchild air force base -- the B-52 crews there are trained to be ejected while doing a 300 ft bombing run.....

Eek!

I saw a B-52 do a mock penetration run through Yakima in 1990. it was aswesome. We were suddenly in shadow as the plane went overhead and then the planes shadow and sound hit us like a thunder clap. It then seemed to be floating down the valley as it slightly rose and fell following the terrain.

**xinhui** · 05 Jan 11,, 05:54

Z,

For me, BUFF IS the American air power, by the time it starts to do its business, the game is over.

**xinhui** · 06 Jan 11,, 06:50

back to topic

12:15 29/12/2010
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The Russian Air Force command has grounded the entire fleet of its Antonov An-22 transports and Tupolev Tu-95MS bombers after an An-22 was destroyed in a crash on Tuesday killing all twelve crew on board, the Force says.

The fact that the Air Force has decided to ground all Tu-95s suggests that engine failure is strongly suspected as the cause - both aircraft types share the Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop, the largest engine of its kind in the world.

"In order to maintain safety in using these aircraft, which both use this engine, the air force command has decided to suspend operations until the reason for the accident is clear," an Air Force spokesman said.

The An-22 departed from Voronezh airport at 21.00 on Tuesday for the Migalovo airport in Tver region but disappeared from radar screens a few minutes after departure. The remains of the aircraft were found near the village of Krasny Oktyabr in Tula region, about 100 km from Tula.

The An-22 remains the largest turboprop powered aircraft in the world. Around 45 remain in service with the Russian Air Force and most are over 40 years old.

MOSCOW December 29 (RIA Novosti)

Engine failure suspected as cause of crash as Tu-95 and An-22 fleet grounded | Defense | RIA Novosti

**xinhui** · 15 Jan 11,, 05:45

judging from this released photos, the Russian MI is still in a rather poor state

**Jimmy** · 15 Jan 11,, 05:59

Well, they were effectively decimated for a couple of decades. It's not easy to recover from what they went through.

**nutter** · 18 Jan 11,, 05:53

FYI

the hokum has
- datalink
- better flight characteristics than most conventional tail rotor helicopters due to the coaxial rotor layout

obviously not having to have a gearbox/driveshaft/etc feeding a rotor way off on the tail section has advantages in terms of resistance ordinance and mass centralisation, too

**Andrey Egorov** · 18 Jan 11,, 10:34

Originally Posted by xinhui

judging from this released photos, the Russian MI is still in a rather poor state

It's Kamov plant. The helicopter is mentioned Ka-52.

**highsea** · 19 Jan 11,, 18:30

Originally Posted by zraver

Perhaps an explosives package on the rotor assembly to first "eject" the "quizinart" blades?. Let the craft settle into an autorotation to stabalize the platform then dump the blades followed by the crew?

If you can autorotate you would want to stay with the aircraft.

It's a tractor system. First step, explosive bolts shed the rotors. Next goes the canopies, then a rocket fires and drags the crew out the holes. The seat stays in the aircraft.

You gotta hand it to the Russians, lol. Wouldn't want to be the guy that tests that system out!

K-37

**kuku** · 19 Jan 11,, 19:13

You tube search had these two videos ......

Not too good for the spine i think, i guess given a choice it will be better to be alive than dead.

At the end of the vid (last 30 secs): Are you ready to dispense quick justice, with Plausible deniability in a cost effective way. See you sooner, or later alligator.