Without maintenance, the helicopter fleet will quickly become unusable

The fleet of more than a hundred Russian-made helicopters delivered to Afghanistan will quickly become unusable without service and repair, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

The Turkish Aviation Association (Türk Hava Kurumu — THK) has signed a contract with the state company Ukrspetsexport for the repair and maintenance of helicopters. After that, Turkey wanted to repair the Russian Mi-17 in the markets of the Middle East and Asia, - reports Daily Sabah with reference to the general director of THK Cemal Balıkçı (Cemal Balıkçı).

At the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" held in Kubinka from August 22 to 28, 2021, JSC Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA, Yekaterinburg) for the first time presented a full-size mock-up of a promising training aircraft UTS-800 proposed by it to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, which should be equipped with a VK-800S turboprop engine developed under the auspices of UZGA.

Testing of the meter that helps the aircraft fly the correct course is planned to be completed in 2023

A prototype of a domestic Doppler speed and drift angle meter for aircraft and drones was presented at the Army-2021 forum. Tests of the product that helps the aircraft fly the correct course are planned to be completed in 2023, the press service of the Rostec state Corporation Roselectronics holding told reporters on Wednesday.

At the moment, the drones are almost ready for testing

JSC "Kronstadt" is negotiating with the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the possibility of using helicopter-type drones in extinguishing forest fires. This was announced to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Sergey Bogatikov at the Army forum.

The Kronshtadt Company and JSC 558 Aviation Repair Plant (Belarus) signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of service and maintenance of unmanned aircraft complexes at the Army-2021 MVTF.

The Russian Defense Ministry has approved the technical specification for the Lancet suicide drones, their state tests will begin at the end of the year, the Kalashnikov Group of companies told RIA Novosti at the Army-2021 forum.

All UAVs will be controlled from a unified ground station, developed and manufactured by the Kronstadt company

The Kronshtadt company will supply the Ministry of Defense with five new unmanned complexes "Inokhodets-RU" and two sets of helicopter-type UAVs "Platforma", the company's press service reported on Tuesday.

Eleven new simulators of the Diamond DA-42T combat training aircraft will be delivered to the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots until 2025.

During the exercises of front-line aviation near Voronezh, an episode was worked out with the relocation of Su-34 bombers to an operational airfield equipped directly on the federal highway E-38 Kursk-Saratov.

Russia can assist Turkey in creating a fifth-generation fighter, but not to the detriment of its national interests, Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), said on Wednesday.

Rosoboronexport is discussing with foreign customers the issue of creating a two-seat version of the Su-57 fighter, the head of the company Alexander Mikheev said.

On Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu arrived at the Kubinka airfield near Moscow. Here he examined the aviation part of the exposition of the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

Israel intends to work on creating a coalition of Arab countries that want to limit Iran's influence in the region. This was stated by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in an interview published on August 24 with The New York Times.

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is being held near Moscow from August 22 to 28, and the exposition of Belarus is one of the brightest.

At the "Army-2021" you can see the best samples of Belarusian military equipment. Various means of communication, military telecommunications, radar equipment, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely represented. Specialists are interested in electronic warfare systems, including those designed to combat drones.

State tests of Lancet barrage ammunition, nicknamed "kamikaze drones", will begin at the end of 2021. This was announced at the Army-2021 forum by a representative of the Kalashnikov Group of companies.

Washington was in no hurry to evacuate from Afghanistan, so as not to provoke a "complete crisis of confidence", but this did not save the country's government. This was stated on August 23 by the US president's national security adviser Jake Sullivan during a briefing broadcast on Twitter.

The United States maintains contacts with the Afghan Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) on a number of issues, but there is no talk of trust or formal relations, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing on Monday.

The problem of Afghan refugees is alarming

The Taliban (the Taliban group is banned in the Russian Federation) got a huge amount of weapons that no one controls, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, answering the question whether the Taliban movement poses a military threat to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will not interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and draw its armed forces into the conflict in this country.