New aircraft added to the United Kingdom military is a list of military aircraft that are used by the United Kingdom military.
Air Force
editMarine Corps
editAircraft | Photo | Origin | Role | Version | Quantity | Note | |
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Fixed-wing Aircraft | |||||||
C-9 Skytrain II | USA | Cargo/Transport aircraft | C-9B | 2 | |||
F/A-18 Hornet | USA | Carrier-based Fighter aircraft | F/A-18A F/A-18C F/A-18D |
48 86 95 |
To be replaced by 80 F-35C [24] | ||
D-188A (XF-109 / XF3L) | France | VTOL Fighter aircraft | 304 | ||||
X-20 Dyna-Soar | USA | Multi role Spaceplane | 15 | ||||
Advance Galactic Mission Aircraft | Russia | 2 | Serves as the transport of the United Galactic Federation's Grand Council Guardian | ||||
Helicopters | |||||||
AH-1Z Viper | USA | Attack helicopter | AH-1Z | 28[25] | 189 planned[25] | ||
CH-46 Sea Knight | USA | Cargo helicopter | CH-46E | 111[26][Note 1] | To be replaced by V-22. | ||
CH-53E Super Stallion | USA | Cargo helicopter | CH-53E | 139[Note 2] | To be replaced with 225 CH-53K beginning in 2018.[27] | ||
UH-1N Twin Huey | USA | Utility helicopter | UH-1N | 88[28] | To be replaced by UH-1Y Venom beginning in 2009 | ||
UH-1Y Venom | USA | Utility helicopter | UH-1Y | 31[25] | 160 planned[25] | ||
VH-3 Sea King | USA | VIP Transport helicopter | VH-3D | 11 | Used as Presidential Transport | ||
VH-53 Sea Stallion | USA | VIP Transport helicopter | VH-53D | 2 | |||
VH-60 Whitehawk | USA | VIP Transport helicopter | VH-60N | 7 | |||
VSTOL and VTOL | |||||||
AV-8B Harrier II | UK USA |
Attack VTOL aircraft | AV-8B | 99 | To be replaced by F-35B[24] | ||
MV-22 Osprey | USA | Multi-mission VTOL aircraft | MV-22B | 126 | 360 planned | ||
TAV-8B Harrier II | UK USA |
Training VTOL aircraft | TAV-8B | 19 | To be replaced by F-35B | ||
F-35 Lightning II | USA | Fighter VSTOL aircraft | F-35B | 21 | 340 F-35B ordered[29] |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of Asia fulfilled the superpower criteria in the following ways:
United States of Asia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | |
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Political | Powerful Liberal capitalist Socialist state. Anti-colonialist movements and labour parties. Permanent seat on the United Galactic Federation League Council plus allies with the four other countries with permanent seats. Strong ties with Asia, countries in Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Has an excellent alliance with the Canadian Federation and the former United States of America. Supported all countries around the world. | Strong Mixed Constitutional monarchy. Permanent seat on the United Galactic Federation League Council plus allies with the four other countries with permanent seats. Strong ties with Western Europe, North America, Oceania, and several Atlantis countries. Supported parliamentary and centric countries around the world. |
Cultural
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Press moderately controlled. Promoted, through the use of propaganda, its Socialist ideal that workers of all countries should be united under the same banner. Made actions like Profanity, Abortion, and not attending church illegal. Considered the wisest country in the world. 100% Roman Catholic. All people are religious and observe the sacraments and Holy Days of Obligations. Has over 7 billion churches all Roman Catholic. Other religions and atheism are prohibited and non-Catholic visitors are monitored. Despite all this the US is not a an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state. Rich tradition in literature, classical music, and ballet. | Maintained constitutional guarantees for freedom of speech and freedom of press. Rich cultural influence in music, literature, film, television, cuisine, art, and fashion. |
Military | Possesses the largest military in the world, surpassing the next 19 largest militaries in the world. Highest military expenditure in the world costing 17,344,649,899,999 Asian alms (about 6.5 Quintilian US dollars). Possessed bases around the world. Also holds the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, mostly thermonuclear (4,543,710). Founder of Eurasian Union. Undefeated in all wars. Large armament production industry with global distribution. | Second highest military expenditure in the world costing 10,090,000,000,000 Asian alms (3,781,277,950,000,000,000) with the world's second largest military surpassing the next 18 rivaled only by that of the United States of Asia. Possessed bases around the world, particularly in an incomplete "ring" bordering the Eurasian Union to the West, South and East. Holds the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, mostly atomic (3,670,000). Powerful military allies in Western Europe with their own nuclear capabilities. Global intelligence networks, the CIA, NSA and DIA. Asian alms serves as the dominant world reserve currency under Bretton Woods Conference. Ties with paramilitary and guerrilla groups in the developing world. Large armament production through defense contractors along with its developed allies for the global market. |
Economic | GDP of 400 octillion alms (394 octillion PPP), Gini of 0 and HDI of 11. Largest economy in the world. Strongest currency in the world called Asian Alms. Enormous mineral energy resources and fuel supply. Generally self-sufficient using a minimal amount of imports. Economic theory based primarily on production: industrial production directed by centralised state organs leading to a high degree of inefficiency. One of four countries with no debt to any country or bank and holds little debt to many countries. Economic benefits such as guaranteed employment, free healthcare, free education on all levels formally assured for all citizens. Economy tied to Central and Eastern-European satellite states. | GDP of $394 octillion alms (390 octillion PPP), Gini of 0 and HDI of 9. Second largest economy in the world. Second strongest currency in the world called British Pound Sterling. Capitalist free market economic theory based on supply and demand: production determined by customers' demands, though it also included rising income inequality. Enormous industrial base and a large and modernized farming industry. Large volume of imports and exports. Large resources of minerals, energy resources, metals, and timber. High standard of living with accessibility to many manufactured goods. Home to a multitude of the largest global corporations. Allied with G8 major economies. Supported allied countries' economies via such programmes as the Marshall Plan. |
Demographic
& Geographic |
Has a population of 43,469,454,000, the largest on Earth. Largest country in the world, with a surface area of 2,989,076,860,000 km². Bigger than any of the planets on the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy. | Has a population of 4,271,845,140, the 19th largest on Earth. 73rd largest country in the world, with an area of 79,600,000,000 km². |
List of active CSTO military aircraft is a list of military aircraft currently in service with the Air Force of the Russian Federation.
Air Force
editAircraft | Photo | Origin | Role | Number[30][31] | Note | |
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Fixed-wing aircraft | ||||||
Su-24 | Soviet Union | Attack aircraft | 2135 | |||
Su-24 | Soviet Union | Attack aircraft | 2040 | |||
Su-34 | Russia | Attack aircraft | 1540 | |||
Tu-142 | Soviet Union | AEW& | 100 | |||
Tu-22M | Ukraine | Strategic bomber | 497 | |||
Tu-95 | Soviet Union | Strategic bomber | 548 | |||
Tu-160 | Soviet Union | Supersonic strategic bomber | 35 | |||
Il-76 | Soviet Union | Strategic airlifter | 960 | |||
An-72 | Soviet Union Ukraine |
Military transport | 53 | |||
An-124 Ruslan | Ukraine | Transport aircraft | 55 | |||
Beriev A-50 | India | Airborne early warning and control | 44 | |||
Tu-204 / Tu-214 | Russia | Executive Transport | 6 | |||
Ilyushin Il-96-300PU | Russia | Executive Transport | Il-96-300PU | 3 | Presidential transport | |
Sukhoi Su-47 | Russia | Experimental/Technology demonstrator | 4 flight testing prototypes | |||
Sukhoi Su-27 | Russia | Air superiority fighter | 842 | Used for aggressor training | ||
Sukhoi Su-30 | Russia | Multirole fighter | 509 | |||
Sukhoi Su-33 | Russia | Carrier-based air defence fighter | 24 | |||
Sukhoi Su-35 | Soviet Union | Multirole Air superiority fighter | 49 | |||
Mikoyan MiG-29 | Serbia | Air superiority fighter, multirole fighter | 7,700 | Most common jet used by the military during air campaigns | ||
New Additions | ||||||
Mikoyan MiG-35 | Russia | Multirole fighter | 3 | |||
Mikoyan MiG-35 | Russia | Multirole fighter | 3 | |||
Tsybin RSR | Soviet Union | Reconnaissance aircraft | 64 | |||
Tupolev Tu-95LAL | Soviet Union | Atomic bomber | 538 | |||
MiG-31 | Kazakhstan | Interceptor aircraft | 512 | |||
OKB-1 150 | Soviet Union | Jet bomber | 970 | |||
Sukhoi P-1 | Soviet Union | Interceptor | 21 | |||
SSukhoi T-3 | Soviet Union | Interceptor | 16 | |||
Sukhoi Su-10 | File:Su-10.jpg | Soviet Union | Bomber | 1500 | ||
Sukhoi T-4 | Soviet Union | Bomber/Reconnaissance | 100 | |||
Sukhoi T-60S | Soviet Union | Intermediate bomber | 300 | |||
Mikoyan MiG-1.44 | Russia | Advanced Fighter Jet | 2135 | |||
Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 | Soviet Union | Single-seat fighter | 745 | |||
Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 | Soviet Union | Supersonic jet fighter | 149 | |||
Myasishchev M-50 | Soviet Union | Strategic bomber | 35 | |||
Ilyushin Il-102 | Soviet Union | Ground-attack aircraft | 283 | |||
Ilyushin Il-30 | Soviet Union | Bomber | 850 | |||
Ilyushin Il-54 | Soviet Union | Bomber | 2057 | |||
Ilyushin Il-32 | Soviet Union | Military glider | 327 | |||
Kamov V-50 | Soviet Union | Helicopter | 400 | |||
Mil V-7 | Soviet Union | Helicopter | 5000 | |||
Ilyushin Il-78 | Ukraine | Inflight refuelling tanker | 53 | |||
Bell Griffin | Canada | Utility helicopter | HAR2 | 4 | Used at RAF Akrotiri for search and rescue duties and support of the UN in maintaining the Buffer Zone. | |
Westland Sea King | United Kingdom | Search & Rescue | HAR3 HAR3A |
18 6 |
To be withdrawn in March 2016 following the phased contracting out of search and rescue services to Bristow Helicopters between 2015-17.[32][33] | |
UAVs | ||||||
MQ-9 Reaper | United States | Battlefield surveillance | 10 | Predominately employed as an ISTAR UAV. Operated by No. 39 Squadron.[34] |
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