Russia's largest air show in post-Soviet history, MAKS-2007, opened yesterday, to display the  growing military power of the nation and seek lucrative deals. President Vladimir Putin, who recently ordered to resume the flights of long-range bombers to patrol the world's oceans, stressed Russia's prominence in production of military aircraft

Russia demonstrates its growing military muscle and to try to boost the country's sagging civilian plane-making sector in the country’s largest post-Soviet air show.

President Vladimir Putin had ordered to resume regular long-range flights of strategic bombers.

Vladimir Putin let rescuers use his helicopter during the recent visit to the republic of Tuva to save a ten-year-old girl, a daughter of local shepherds. The girl was flown from a remote town to the Republican Hospital for Children. The girl’s father asked for help when he saw the chopper flying above his home

With the same aerodynamic shape, typical for the Su-27/30 family, Su-35 (sometimes called Su-27M) is a qualitatively new complex. It has new radar (Irbis), more powerful engines (14 tons thrust) and the latest complexes of communication and radio-electronic equipment

Russia's Sukhoi, the world’s only competitor of America in  aircraft technologies of the fifth generation, started the construction of its first PAK FA (perspective aviation compl ex of front air force). The construction will take place at two plants simultaneously

Vladimir Putin currently participates in military exercises of Russia's Northern Navy, which started in the Barents Sea today
Vladimir Putin's day yesterday was filled with adventures in the sky and on the ground. Putin personally tested the Tu-160 strategic bomber plane. Vladimir Putin spent five hours on board the bomber and landed at an air base in the Murmansk region in Russia's north. A curious occurrence took place with Vladimir Putin yesterday as the president was leaving the international MAKS-2005 air show. Driving from one stand to another, the president stopped his vehicle near an ice cream stall