Russian Photos (updated on regular basis)

[Raden5]

Of Rub 70.8 bln stipulated to maintain the real sectors of the economy..... the state will give Rub 15 bln as a contribution to the charter capital of Russian aircraft corporation MiG and Rub 13 bln to upsize the charter capital of United Aircraft Corporation...

29.09.2009 Federation Council of Russia has approved...

[He219]

Russian Special Forces soldiers disembark from a helicopter during a military exercises at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia, 28 September 2009. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Kaliningrad Region to attend Zapad-2009 (West-2009) military exercises. The exercises are being conducted with a combined force of Russian and Belarusian troops.

Russian Special Forces soldiers disembark during a military exercise at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia.

A Russian landing craft tank participates in a military exercise at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia.

Russian Army officers watch military exercise at Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia.

(L-R) Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov arrive at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Kaliningrad Region to attend Zapad-2009 (West-2009) military exercises. The exercises are being conducted with a combined force of Russian and Belarusian troops.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) looks at new military equipment at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Kaliningrad Region to attend Zapad-2009 (West-2009) military exercises. The exercises are being conducted with a combined force of Russian and Belarusian troops.

L-R: Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov are seen at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia, 28 September 2009.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (2R) looks at new military diving equipment at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) inspects a ADS, dual-medium amphibious assault rifle, suitable for both surface and underwater combat, at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia, 28 September 2009.

Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov (L) and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov (2R) look on as President Dmitry Medvedev (C) holds an ADS, dual-medium amphibious assault rifle, suitable for both surface and underwater combat, while inspecting weapons and military equipment at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk on September 28, 2009 in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia

Russian External Intelligence Service Chief, Former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov is seen at the Baltic Fleet's Khmelyovka training center near Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia, 28 September 2009. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Kaliningrad Region to attend Zapad-2009 (West-2009) military exercises. The exercises are being conducted with a combined force of Russian and Belarusian troops.

[Nuclear_Warrior]

Damn, well equipped they are. Those headsets look similar to the ones the Americans and so on use, nice gloves btw.

[Leo1]

The missile pods are :
- Sold
- Disabled
- Lost

I assume you're joking, but they generally don't bother fitting the missiles in exercises. There's no point, because they don't plan on shooting them.

[Universals]

The missile containers seem to be detachable.

The missile pods are :
- Sold
- Disabled
- Lost

Thanks guys for the info.

[Derbedeu]

I don't know why, but I always find fighter jets to be much sexier when they're naked (i.e. lack any paint-job).

[TR1]

I assume you're joking, but they generally don't bother fitting the missiles in exercises. There's no point, because they don't plan on shooting them.

Maybe someone sold the missiles to Georgia without alerting the military. Wouldn't be the first case of that happening.

[evb58362]

That's a pair of MiG-29KUBs (in the first picture). The one at the back has test equipment where the second seat should be, though.

The -K and the -KUB use the same "two-seat" canopy.

[Leo1]

The -K and the -KUB use the same "two-seat" canopy.

Whatever for?

Maybe someone sold the missiles to Georgia without alerting the military. Wouldn't be the first case of that happening.

Well I'd like to see them try and fire them without a platform to guide them

[TR1]

Re K: for production line and unit unification I think, make everything interchangeable for one.

[void]

The -K and the -KUB use the same "two-seat" canopy.

Yes, and the K version just fills the back seat space with an extra fuel tank.

[Kutuzov]

I remind...

1 October - Day of Land Forces of the Russian Federation!

Very nice, I shell have a drink or two to that.

[GazB]

How come there is no missile pods on this Tunguska? is this an earlier version or just a Ukrainian version?

The missiles are supplied in their launch tubes. When missiles are fired then the launch tubes are removed to load the new tubes. Often if the testing or operational use is not going to involve using the missiles they don't bother fitting them. A bit like seeing a BMP-1 without an ATGM fitted.

All variants of the 2S6 have missiles though the first, called 2S6 had only 4 missiles with two missiles on each side. It was intended to replace the SA-9 and the ZSU-23-4 so it was replacing 4 guns firing about 4,000 23mm rounds per minute and 4 missiles with a range of about 5km with 2 twin barrel guns firing up to 5,000 30mm rounds per minute and had 4 missiles with a range of 8km. Have only seen the 2S6 in East Germany in the mid 1980s. It was rapidly replaced with the 2S6M that had 8 missiles ready to fire.

Could somebody explain how the jagged geometry of the Mig shown above helps reduce the RCS. I understand the basic theory of angled surfaces to reduce RCS, but don't see how a serration along the surface like this would do any good. Are they just what's visible of some surfaces inside the nosecone, and the cone itself isn't much radar reflective?

Very simply, if you think of a normal saw blade, one side with saw teeth and the other flat and straight. If you shine a radar beam on the flat side when it is at 90 degrees to the radar emitter you get a smooth continuous reflection along the entire edge. If you do the same on the other side, depending upon the frequency it is really only the tips of the teeth that reflect radar energy right back at the target while the edges of the teeth reflect it away from where it came from.

Maybe someone sold the missiles to Georgia without alerting the military. Wouldn't be the first case of that happening.

But why? The missiles used by tunguska are cheap and simple. They have no MMW radar seeker, or IIR seeker that might be worth thousands of dollars. They are a stick of propellent with a warhead attached and a radio command guidance system attached to a rocket booster motor. The whole point of them is to be cheap and simple as possible so they can be mass produced in enormous numbers so they can be used a lot. All the expensive stuff like radars and EO sights and Thermal imager sights are in the vehicle itself and are not destroyed with use. The result is an expensive vehicle with cheap easy to make missiles that can be fired in large numbers during training or in combat without breaking the bank.

Whatever for?

The original Mig-29 and Mig-29UB trainer were quite different aircraft with the UB pretty much being a trainer only with a much smaller ranging only radar and a limited subset of weapons. With the new Mig-29s Mig wanted to make a single standard design where the only difference between the two types was the number of seats where the single seat version has a small extra fuel tank where the second seat was so the single seater has slightly longer range, but otherwise both are fully operational aircraft. The two seater can still be used as a trainer, but can also be used for attacking ground targets in a light strike role, or in other roles where two crew is more useful than just one, as in the SEAD or jammer role with the appropriate equipment and weapons fitted to the pylons.

[fmaster]

You can find quite many 'sawtooth' from US stealth aircrafts.


Canopy of F-117


Bay doors of B-2


Landing gear bay door of F-22


I'm not quite sure, but once read that the F-117 was bright as a lightbulb(compared to the final design, maybe)on the radar screen without those sawtooth in its development phase as the edge of doors reflected the radar beam well.

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**** did he got ran over?