
Initially, Beriev Design Bureau had an intention to develop a special Search and Rescue (SAR) aircraft, based on Be-12. The design works began in...


In the beginning of 1956, the “OKB-155”( Mikoyan-and-Gurevich ) Design Bureau began developing new supersonic interceptor under designation I-7U....


The issue in November 1951 of a specification for an all-weather fighter capable of mounting standing patrols led the Lavochkin bureau to underta...

The Ye-152M was intended to be the prototype of a new air defense interceptor with advanced avionics. It was based on its predecessor –Ye-152-2,...


racing experimental aircraft


(Long-range ground-attack version of Yak-9)

The Su20 was an export version of the Sukhoi Su17M, developed for sales to the Third World countries. It differed from its predecessor by the c...

The Su-17 is a Soviet fighter-bomber with variable-sweep wing, further development of Su-7 by the Sukhoi Design Bureau. Apart from the new wing,...

The Su-7U (“U” stands for “Trainer” in Russian) was trainer aircraft, designed in 1965 on Su-7B basis. It has 2 separate pressure cockpits and...

The Sukhoi Su-17M (NATO reporting name: “Fitter- C”) was a Soviet ground attack aircraft with variable wing geometry, developed in 1970. The plan...

The Su-7BMK (K" standing for "commercial" in Russian) was an export version of the Su-7BM fighter-bomber, equipped with additional brake parachut...

Su -7BM was an upgraded modification of the Su-7B ground-attack aircraft, developed in the early 1960s. The plane has improved aerodynamics, addi...

The Tupolev Tu-91(NATO reporting name:Boot) was a prototype of Soviet naval attack aircraft, designed in the early 1950s.The turboprop bomber was...

The Sukhoi Su-7 was a swept wing, supersonic fighter, developed in USSR in mid in 1950s. It was the first Soviet aircraft in which have been impe...

During development of the firefighting variant of a new Be-200 amphibious multipurpose aircraft, designers had to solve a wide range of technica...


The Yak-140 was a Soviet experimental light-weight supersonic fighter developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau in the middle 1950s. The prototype...

The Yak-1000 was experimental fighter, built in 1951, following Soviet intention to create supersonic fighter with the rhomboid wing, having maxi...


The Be-12 "Chayka"( in English “Seagull”) was an anti-submarine amphibious aircraft, successor to the obsolescent Be-6. The turboprop plane enter...