Legendary Airplanes (2000). Combat Jets (magazine) Legendary aircraft of the USSR

A documentary series from a series about the legendary Soviet and Russian aviation technology and people whose goal in life was to create the best airplanes and helicopters. The series will tell about the history of the creation, testing, combat use and operation of these unique winged machines. It included materials from flight tests, interviews with test pilots, aviation historians, and military pilots.

List of episodes:

SEASON 1:

1. TU-95. Strategic bomber
The Tu-95 became the first Soviet intercontinental bomber and, at the same time, the last aircraft created on Stalin’s instructions. This vehicle is the main carrier of nuclear weapons as part of the nuclear triad. Tu-95 holds many world records. This is both a world speed record for propeller-driven aircraft - 945 km/h, and a non-stop flight record for production aircraft - 30 thousand km. However, the most important record of the Tu-95 is its longevity. Entered into service in 1956, it is still in service.
The film will tell about the history of the creation, testing and operation of this unique helicopter. It will include flight test materials, interviews with test pilots, designers, and military pilots.

2. IL-76. Sky Truck
March 25, 1971 from the Central Airfield named after. M.V. A huge plane took off from Frunze. The sight of this giant over the city struck the imagination of Muscovites - they first saw the Il-76, which later became legendary. The IL-76 became the main military transport vehicle of the Air Force. These aircraft took an active part in the war in Afghanistan and showed their high efficiency there. During the fighting, only two vehicles were lost. The IL-76 is also in service with the CIS countries, Algeria, India, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, China, Libya, North Korea and Syria. In addition, these machines are the main civil air cargo carrier in our country. The film tells about the history of the creation, testing and operation of this unique aircraft.
It includes unique materials from flight tests, interviews with designers, military pilots and engineers. The history of the Il-76 is told by its main creator, later the General Designer of the Design Bureau named after. Ilyushin, twice Hero of Socialist Labor G.V. Novozhilov.

3. Mi-26. The Ultimate Heavy Truck
Created at the Moscow Helicopter Plant, the Mi-26 is the largest mass-produced transport helicopter in the world.
Having replaced its predecessor Mi-6, this rotary-wing heavy aircraft is known on all continents. He has dozens of world records that have not yet been broken. The film tells about the history of the creation, testing and operation of this unique helicopter.
The film includes unique materials from flight tests, combat footage of the Mi-26 in Afghanistan, interviews with test pilots, designers, and military pilots.

4. Su-25. Fire-breathing Rook
Su-25 aircraft. Today, these are the only machines that represent attack aircraft in the Russian Air Force. Powerful weapons and good flight performance allow them to fully carry out missions to support ground forces. Destruction of enemy personnel, defensive structures, armored vehicles and artillery. In some cases, these vehicles can also conduct air combat. The history of the creation of the Su-25 was not easy. Born underground, created on the enthusiasm of several designers, it was able to defend its right to exist. Having walked a thorny path, the fire-breathing Rook took its place in the sky.

5. Tu-22M. Supersonic evolution
For rapid serial production of the Tu-22M aircraft, its first copy was built at the Kazan Aviation Plant named after Gorbunov. At the same time, a series of aircraft were laid down. Tupolev Design Bureau specialists had to constantly travel from Moscow to Kazan on business trips. On August 30, 1969, the Tu-22M0 took to the skies of Kazan for the first time.
Aircraft of the Tu-22M series are large and complex machines, which later gave numerous developments in both passenger and combat vehicles, across all aviation design bureaus of the USSR (4th generation aircraft). For the first time in the USSR, the aircraft received a very complex, but fully operational complex of interconnected both digital and analog critical systems of aeronautical and radio-electronic equipment.
Born as a modification of the Tu-22 bomber, the Tu-22 M is in fact a completely new aircraft.
Our film tells about the history of the creation, testing, and operation of the aircraft. It includes unique materials from flight tests, interviews with test pilots, historians, and military pilots.

6. Mi-28. Rotary wing tank
The development of the Mi-28 helicopter was carried out at the Moscow Helicopter Plant named after. M. L. Mil since 1980 in the conditions of creative competition with the Kamov Design Bureau, which was creating an alternative combat helicopter, the Ka-50. The concept of a combat helicopter in the process of formation has gone through a long path of changes and improvements. What should be the tactics of its use, what kind of weaponry should it have? The appearance of the future combat vehicle depended on the answers to these questions.
The first prototype of the Mi-28 helicopter made its first flight on November 10, 1982. The Mi-28 is an attack helicopter designed to search and destroy tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as low-speed air targets and enemy personnel in conditions of active fire resistance.

7. Su-34. Universal weapon
The first prototype T-10V1 (now called Su-34-1) was converted from the serial Su-27UB combat training aircraft at the pilot production of the Machine-Building Plant named after. BY. Sukhoi and transported from Moscow to Zhukovsky, to the LII airfield. On April 13, 1990, it was lifted into the air by honored test pilot A. Ivanov. The first production aircraft SU-34 took off in 1993. Su-34 should replace front-line bombers SU-24. The Su-34 is designed to destroy ground and surface, including small-sized, mobile and stationary targets in the enemy’s tactical and operational depth, as well as air targets, day and night, in simple and adverse weather conditions. One of the important features of the new aircraft is on-board electronics, providing the crew with complete information about flight parameters, the state of all aircraft systems, air and ground targets, on the surface of the water and under water, about enemy radar detection equipment, about enemy air defense and the degree of threat they pose. The aircraft has a variety of weapons. 12 external hardpoints can accommodate high-precision air-to-surface guided missiles. Another precision weapon in the SU-34's arsenal is guided bombs. To destroy enemy radars, as well as to combat enemy long-range radar detection aircraft, the bomber can be equipped with anti-radar missiles. To combat fighter jets, the Su-34's armament includes medium- and short-range air-to-air missiles. Another element that increases combat survivability is the presence of a second control for the navigator-operator. Our film tells about the history of the creation, testing, and operation of the aircraft. It includes unique materials from flight tests, interviews with test pilots, historians, and military pilots.

SEASON 2:

1. I-16 fighter. Member of seven wars
In the distant thirties, this aircraft was the most recognizable in the Soviet Union and had the title “first” multiple times. The first high-speed fighter. The first mass-produced monoplane fighter. The first production combat aircraft with retractable landing gear. I-16 fighters were the first to fight the Nazis in the skies of Madrid. We met the enemy with fire over Brest. They rammed German Junkers in the sky of Moscow. I-16s went through seven wars with valor and in battles earned the right to be called legendary.

2. Il-2 Sturmovik
The film tells about the Victory Il-2 attack aircraft. About the prerequisites for its appearance, and how the course of the war influenced its development and improvement. It also talks about the various weapons of this aircraft. The film includes interviews with leading aviation historians and pilots.

3. La-5 fighter
The film tells about the legendary La-5 fighter designed by Semyon Lavochkin. About the history of its creation, improvement and combat use. About the pilots who fought on it. The film also features its predecessor, the LaGG-3 fighter, and the pinnacle of its development, the La-7. The film includes interviews with leading aviation historians and pilots.

4. Yak fighters
The film tells about the family of famous Yak fighters during the Great Patriotic War: Yak-1, Yak-7, Yak-9 and Yak-3. The history of their creation, development and combat use is shown. The film includes interviews with leading aviation historians and pilots.

5. An-2. Big legend of small aviation
The amazing fate of the An-2 has repeatedly confirmed that it is worthy of such a high rank. Perhaps the word “most” would suit him best. And not only because it is the world's largest single-engine piston biplane. It is much more important that the An-2 is the most versatile aircraft in the history of aviation. It is no coincidence that it has been in production for almost 70 years! On its sides there were identification marks of more than 50 countries. The An-2 has visited almost all points of our planet.

6. Tu-144. Looking to the future
Tu-144 is the world's first supersonic passenger airliner. It took off before its Anglo-French brother, Concorde, and opened a new era in world civil aviation. The creation of the Tu-144 brought domestic aviation science to new frontiers. For its production in the aircraft industry, new materials and technologies were used, which also affected related industries. The Tu-144 became a source of pride for the entire country, but never became a mass-produced aircraft for transportation. He was ahead of his time. However, the scientific and technological groundwork acquired during its creation will be used more than once in the creation of new aircraft - both civil and military.

7. “Ilya Muromets”. Winged hero
The Ilya Muromets aircraft first took to the skies in 1913 and became the world's first multi-engine combat aircraft. Having appeared, he surpassed his predecessors many times over.
The creator of this air giant was the outstanding Russian aircraft designer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky. During the First World War, the Muromets served as the basis for the formation of the Airship Squadron, the prototype of modern strategic bomber aircraft. Today - in memory of this aircraft - one of the supersonic missile carriers Tu-160 also bears on its board the name of the epic hero.

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Episode 1 I-16 fighter. Member of seven wars

In the distant thirties, this aircraft was the most recognizable in the Soviet Union and had the title “first” multiple times. The first high-speed fighter. The first mass-produced monoplane fighter. The first production combat aircraft with retractable landing gear. I-16 fighters were the first to fight the Nazis in the skies of Madrid. We met the enemy with fire over Brest. They rammed German Junkers in the sky of Moscow. I-16s went through seven wars with valor and in battles earned the right to be called legendary.

Episode 2. Sturmovik Il-2

The film tells about the Victory Il-2 attack aircraft. About the prerequisites for its appearance, and how the course of the war influenced its development and improvement. It also talks about the various weapons of this aircraft. The film includes interviews with leading aviation historians and pilots.

Episode 3. La-5 fighter

The film tells about the legendary La-5 fighter designed by Semyon Lavochkin. About the history of its creation, improvement and combat use. About the pilots who fought on it. The film also features its predecessor, the LaGG-3 fighter, and the pinnacle of its development, the La-7. The film includes interviews with leading aviation historians and pilots.

Episode 4 Yak fighters

Episode 5 An-2. Big legend of small aviation

The amazing fate of the An-2 has repeatedly confirmed that it is worthy of such a high rank. Perhaps the word “most” would suit him best. And not only because it is the world's largest single-engine piston biplane. It is much more important that the An-2 is the most versatile aircraft in the history of aviation. It is no coincidence that it has been in production for almost 70 years! On its sides there were identification marks of more than 50 countries. The An-2 has visited almost all points of our planet.

Episode 6. Tu-144. Looking to the future

Episode 7 "Ilya Muromets". Winged hero

Episode 8. Legendary planes. IL-18. Flagship of the "Golden Era"

More than fifty years have passed since the first flight of the Il-18. During this time, the aircraft has traveled a bright path from birth to worldwide recognition. In the 60s, it was the workhorse of Aeroflot, and eventually entered the fleet of sixteen countries. Hundreds of millions of passengers around the world have traveled by air on its wings. IL-18 flew over all continents, including Antarctica. And military modifications of the aircraft still serve in the Armed Forces of modern Russia. The half-century-long flight continues.

The film contains two parallel lines: the history of the creation of the Il-18 aircraft and the flight full of surprises to set a women's world record on the airliner in 1967.

Legendary aircraft

Description:
Documentary series about Soviet legendary aircraft. The series will tell about the history of the creation, testing and operation of these unique winged machines. It will include flight test materials, interviews with test pilots, designers, and military pilots.

List of issues/series
1 film - TU-95. Strategic bomber
The Tu-95 became the first Soviet intercontinental bomber and, at the same time, the last aircraft created on Stalin’s instructions. This vehicle is the main carrier of nuclear weapons as part of the nuclear triad. Tu-95 holds many world records. This is both a world speed record for propeller-driven aircraft - 945 km/h, and a non-stop flight record for production aircraft - 30 thousand km. However, the most important record of the Tu-95 is its longevity. Entered into service in 1956, it is still in service.

2 film - IL-76. Sky Truck
March 25, 1971 from the Central Airfield named after. A huge plane took off from Frunze. The sight of this giant over the city struck the imagination of Muscovites - they first saw the Il-76, which later became legendary. The IL-76 became the main military transport vehicle of the Air Force. These aircraft took an active part in the war in Afghanistan and showed their high efficiency there. During the fighting, only two vehicles were lost. The IL-76 is also in service with the CIS countries, Algeria, India, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, China, Libya, North Korea and Syria. In addition, these machines are the main civil air cargo carrier in our country.

3 film - Mi-26. The Ultimate Heavy Truck
Created at the Moscow Helicopter Plant, the Mi-26 is the largest mass-produced transport helicopter in the world.
Having replaced its predecessor Mi-6, this rotary-wing heavy aircraft is known on all continents. He has dozens of world records that have not yet been broken.

4th film - Su-25. Fire-breathing "Rook".
Powerful weapons and good flight performance allow them to fully carry out missions to support ground forces. In some cases, these vehicles can also conduct air combat. The history of the creation of the Su-25 was not easy. Born underground, created on the enthusiasm of several designers, it was able to defend its right to exist.

5 film - Tu-22M.
Supersonic evolution. For rapid serial production of the Tu-22M aircraft, its first copy was built at the Kazan Aviation Plant named after. Gorbunova. On August 30, 1969, the Tu-22M took to the skies of Kazan for the first time. Aircraft of the Tu-22M series are large and complex machines, which later gave numerous developments, both in passenger and combat vehicles, across all aviation design bureaus of the USSR (4th generation aircraft).

6th film - Mi-28. Rotary wing tank.
The development of the Mi-28 helicopter was carried out at the Moscow Helicopter Plant named after. M. L. Mil since 1980 in the conditions of creative competition with the Kamov Design Bureau, which was creating an alternative combat helicopter, the Ka-50. The concept of a combat helicopter in the process of formation has gone through a long path of changes and improvements. The first prototype of the Mi-28 helicopter made its first flight on November 10, 1982.

7th film - Su-34. Universal weapon.
The first production aircraft SU-34 took off in 1993. Su-34 should replace front-line bombers SU-24. The aircraft has a variety of weapons. 12 external hardpoints can accommodate high-precision air-to-surface guided missiles. Another precision weapon in the SU-34's arsenal is guided bombs. To destroy enemy radars, as well as to combat enemy long-range radar detection aircraft, the bomber can be equipped with anti-radar missiles. To combat fighter jets, the Su-34's armament includes medium- and short-range air-to-air missiles. Another element that increases combat survivability is the presence of a second control for the navigator-operator.

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Magazine series (partwork)

This test series has been out for quite some time, there is no information about the main one yet. Perhaps it will appear after DeAgostini's Legendary Airplanes.
Unlike “Legendary Airplanes” (their scale is not strictly fixed), here it is exactly 1:144, and this is important for collectors and is a plus of the series.

Publisher - Eaglemoss.
Number of rooms - 52.
Frequency - once every 2 weeks.
Price: 1 room - 149 rubles, then - 299 rubles.

Combat Jets magazine - the best combat aircraft from World War II to the present day. Collection of aircraft models in scale 1:144.

The test series was released in 2012 in Arkhangelsk.

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