At the Army – 2022 exhibition, Russia will present a new MiG capable of launching spacecraft

The new version of the MiG-31I is designed to launch small spacecraft into orbit, thanks to which the Russian Air Force will receive unique capabilities, writes MWM. The MiG-31 glider has no equal abroad in carrying capacity, size, speed and altitude.

The Rostec United Engine Corporation has completed the completion of the NK-32 02 series engines of the fifth board of the Tu-160M strategic bomber, which is in service with the long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

The Russian Ministry of Defense at the Army-2022 forum on Wednesday, August 17, for the first time demonstrated the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle, shot down during a special military operation to protect civilians in Donbass.

A Latvian charity organization has announced a collection of 5 million euros for the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drone for Ukraine, according to the organization's website.

Why the US military does not want to transfer the MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone to the APU

The APU wants to get medium-altitude General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle ("Gray Eagle") American-made UAVs to strengthen their strike and reconnaissance capabilities. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why the Pentagon is still refusing Kiev.

The first mainline narrow-body Tu-214 aircraft for Russian airlines will appear in 2023. This was announced by the General Director of the UAC Yuri Slyusar within the framework of the international military-technical forum "Army-2022".

Rosoboronexport is closely monitoring the movements of Russian military equipment supplied for export, a gross violation of contractual obligations has been committed by the United States, the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

On August 15, 2022, the official ceremony of handing over the first Eurofighter Typhoon fighter, out of 24 of these aircraft ordered by Qatar under the 2017 contract, to the Qatar Air Force took place at the enterprise of the BAE Systems Corporation in Wharton (Great Britain). The ceremony was attended by British Defense Ministers Ben Wallace and Qatar Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah. The first transferred single-seat fighter (serial number MS001, Qatari tail number QA404, temporary British military number ZR505) is scheduled to fly to its base in Qatar at the end of August.

The high demand on the world market for Turkish attack drones, observed after the Karabakh war in 2020, has fully loaded the production capacity of UAVs.

The British Embassy called the violation of the Russian border by a reconnaissance aircraft a "routine" operation

The British Air Force Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft performed a "routine operation" in international airspace in the Norwegian and Barents Seas on August 15, the British Embassy in Moscow said.

An international team of researchers has developed a new way to produce oxygen on the Red Planet using gases from the local atmosphere and cold plasma. The technology can play a crucial role in the development of human life support systems, since it allows you to get a lot of oxygen for breathing, the production of rocket fuel, fertilizers and building materials with minimal equipment weight.

In the video report "The crews of the Su-25 aircraft of the Vostok group carried out air strikes on the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" on the Rutube channel of the Izvestia newspaper, you can see footage of the launchers of the S-350 anti-aircraft missile system placed around the perimeter of the military airfield.

Statement of the Turkish Defense Industry Department on the S-400: the information is not true

The reports that appeared in the media about the new purchase and production of the S-400 in Turkey do not correspond to reality, Haber7 reported. A discussion broke out among the readers of the site.

The Western press has published material on the prospective development of new AML MLRS based on HIMARS installations, which are capable of operating without a crew, and are also equipped with twelve missiles instead of six. Interestingly, the authors began the article, apparently, with the phrase mandatory for Western media: "HIMARS multipurpose rocket launchers demonstrate their high efficiency on the Ukrainian front."

The US is conducting missile tests, creating a huge risk of military escalation

The United States has created a huge risk of military escalation by testing Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, writes the Daily Express. Readers of the publication are concerned that such a "dangerous type" as Biden disposes of a nuclear button.

About domestic shipbuilding in the conditions of a special military operation in Ukraine

The task of achieving technological sovereignty has been set for the domestic shipbuilding industry. This requirement is fixed not only in the new Maritime Doctrine, the design bureaus and shipyards of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are working to achieve this goal.

Vasily Boytsov, Deputy General Director for Innovation and Technical Development of USC, confirmed USC's readiness to participate in the creation of a unified information environment for unique equipment at the Army-2022 forum.

While the military is arguing about the need to build new aircraft carriers and continues to expect the return of the only aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to combat, the Nevsky Design Bureau presented a project of the light non-nuclear aircraft carrier Varan within the framework of the Army-2022 forum.

On the first day of the Army-2022 forum, important statements were made regarding the development of the military-technical cooperation system, plans for rearmament, export sales of VIVT, and the situation around Ukraine.

On August 16, the Head of the Main Department of Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Alexander Osadchuk, summed up the results of the first day of the work of the Army-2022 MVTF at a briefing for journalists.