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Deino said:

Probably doesn't quite fit here, but I didn't want to start a new topic!
At first glance, it seems like a bad joke, but the site is official after all: So, does anyone know what's behind it?

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Deino said:

But - at least by my understanding and what others say - why then did the Embassy of Russia in South Africa make such an either stupid claim or stupid mistake? They surely know to speak English in a proper way.

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It is certainly no stupid claim when the Soviet Union was one of the few countries to actually develop a supersonic passenger aircraft. And the organizations which did both the airframe and engines for the Tu-144 are all located in the Russian Federation. Namely Tupolev and Kuznetsov. As for the new supersonic aircraft they want to develop, I have shown artist pictures of its intended fuselage here before.



Several configurations of the airframe are being wind tunnel tested.





This is a scaled model of a concept design showing several technologies being developed.



Back when the decision for Tupolev to restart production of the Tu-160 bomber was made, a long time ago, Putin asked United Aircraft Corporation to also make a supersonic aircraft product for the civilian market. TsAGI has been working doing wind tunnel testing of airframes and creating computer models for the effect of supersonic aircraft noise on the ground. Airframes with low supersonic boom characteristics are being developed. So this is pretty serious work. It wouldn't be surprising if a product eventually showed up.

There was also this press release last year.


In 2023, work on a supersonic aircraft demonstrator will begin in Novosibirsk
12/14/2022



"Siberian Research Institute of Aviation (SibNIA) named after S.A. Chaplygina plans to begin creating a demonstrator of a passenger supersonic aircraft in 2023. About this at a press conference at the Novosibirsk TASS press center reported General Director of the Institute Vladimir Barsuk.
“Next year it is planned to work on a supersonic civil aircraft, in which the institute will also take part in creating technology demonstrators and testing these demonstrators. This year it was drawn up, now we have made a decision, next year we will conclude a contract,” Barsuk said.
According to him, the design of the aircraft has a new fuselage, a new wing with a reduced sound boom. “Modern research has made it possible to configure the aircraft in such a way that the sonic boom will be significantly reduced. SibNIA will be engaged in flight tests,” explained the general director of the institute.
He clarified to reporters that the flying laboratory is planned to be deployed on the basis of the Mig-29 light fighter. The institute will take two to three years to complete the project.
In January 2022, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the Russian authorities intend to set the task of creating a high-tech supersonic passenger aircraft that will reduce flight time, in particular to the Far East."

The United States has a similar program:

Video of Putin's flight to the UAE escorted by 3 Su-35S. We can see the Flankers with their formation lights on, which isn't that common

That's 3662 Km from Moscow. Actually impressive if the Su-35 take no mid air refuelling.

Stealthflanker said:

That's 3662 Km from Moscow. Actually impressive if the Su-35 take no mid air refuelling.

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I was thinking that, considering they aren't clean either, even if 2 R-77-1 and 2 R-73 isn't that big of a load.

Stealthflanker said:

That's 3662 Km from Moscow. Actually impressive if the Su-35 take no mid air refuelling.

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Assuming they actually flew all the way from Moscow, and not somewhere in southern Russia, which is "only" a bit over 2000 km

Rostec announced plans to increase the production of Russian Obereg body armor several times. In 2024, the production volume of body armor will increase multiple times compared to the previous year.” Technical information about the body armor in the link to the video in the comments to the video. Unlike its Western counterparts, the body armor is not only much lighter, but is also capable of withstanding a direct hit even from a sniper rifle, as previously confirmed by tests. In the near future they also plan to reduce the weight of the “Obereg” body armor by at least 0.5 kilograms, without losing the body armor’s protection class and plate area. Production of the Obereg body armor was launched in the spring of 2023 at the Tula Oktava plant. Initially, the enterprise's capacity allowed it to produce up to two thousand products per quarter, but now it has increased significantly.

The Russian design bureau MiS showed a new drone MiS-35. The drone is currently undergoing testing and is designed according to a hexacopter design with a folding mechanism. MiS-35 uses an analogue video communication system and is equipped with a 4K camera with 6x magnification. The drone uses non-standard control channel frequencies, which allows it to achieve high noise immunity without significant loss of quality. Thanks to the implementation of stabilization and flight algorithms similar to DJI drones, training operators to control MiS-35 drones is faster. The drone has a camera gyrostabilizer and is equipped with an autopilot complex and a payload release mechanism. The drone can be equipped with a thermal imager with a matrix resolution of 384x288. The drones come with an FPV helmet with an enhanced receiver. The maximum speed of the drone is 63 km/h, the range of the radio control channel is 9 km, the payload of the drone is up to 4.5 kg. The drone's flight time is up to 45 minutes, with a load of 4.5 kilograms up to 21 minutes. The price of the MiS 35 drone is from 468,000 rubles to 634,000 rubles. Or from $5000 to $6800.

Russian pilots began to be massively trained in the use of glide bombs. Previously, we talked about the FAB-500 M-62 and KAB 1500 glide bombs; now they are the main strike weapons of Russian aviation, the link to the video is in the comments to the video. Using the wing and rudders, the module installed on the FAB bomb allows you to adjust the flight path to the bomb target and makes it highly accurate. Russia has a colossal number of FAB bombs weighing 250, 500 and 1500 kilograms, so apparently mass training of pilots has begun. To train pilots, a batch of Su-34 bombers was transferred to one of the training centers of the Russian Air Force, which will be used for training pilots. At the same time, the software of the Su-34 aircraft is being finalized, which will make it possible to drop bombs from all types of aircraft maneuvers.

Russian troops began to receive sets of Strelok combat equipment produced by the Triada-TKO company. There is no video of the kit at the moment and it is large enough to find out the details and advantages of the combat equipment, press pause. The Strelok combat kit is a comprehensive solution for protecting military personnel. It is based on the Corset Plus body armor with protection class Br5 and a weight distribution system, due to which the back muscles and spine are relieved. The Strelok equipment set is made of several layers of non-woven material and is equipped with bulletproof protection in the chest and back sections. The body armor weighs about 12 kilograms, with additional protection modules the weight is about 20 kilograms. Combat equipment consists of a set of pouches, a 30-liter backpack, an additional transport bag, as well as additional protection modules. It is expected that by the end of 2023, more than 25 thousand sets of the new model of combat equipment will be supplied to the Russian army.