From Russia with Love: more pictures from the Russian Air Force centenary airshow

October 5, 2012 Airshows, Military Aviation

David Cenciotti

On Aug. 11 and 12, where the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary with a pyrotechnic airshow that featured mass flybys, heavy formations of Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers, Su-27s, MiG-29s, Su-24s and the new Sukhoi PAK FA (T-50) that you can see in the gallery of all the most interesting aircraft of the “Resurgent” Russian Air Force on display.

In this new gallery, you’ll find more pictures of the static display taken by The Aviationist’s Tony Lovelock at Zhukovsky, Moscow.

Image credit: Tony Lovelock

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About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.