Tests of the Ansat-M helicopter should be completed in 2023, the general director of the Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec) said in an interview with RIA Novosti Andrey Boginsky.

In Russia, the production of modifications of the heaviest helicopter will begin. A permit for serial production of the Mi-26T2B will be issued by the end of 2021. Andrey Boginsky, General Director of the Russian Helicopters holding of Rostec State Corporation, said this in an interview with TASS.

Russia will deliver about 100 military and 85 civilian helicopters to customers in 2021. This was announced on Tuesday, November 23, by Andrey Boginsky, CEO of the Russian Helicopters holding company.

Russian Helicopters Holding Company of Rostec State Corporation delivered the first batch of two Mi-171 helicopters with VK-2500-03 high-altitude engines to China under a contract with QINGDAO civil airline.

The American fifth-generation fighter F-22 Raptor was spotted with a "mirror" coating. The Drive drew attention to the pictures posted on Instagram by aviation photographer Santos Caceres.

Starting next year, parts manufactured in Poland will be installed on F-16 Block 70/72 fighters. November 22, portal defence24.pl He announced that Lockheed Martin has started manufacturing aircraft parts at its subsidiary PZL Mielec.

According to the resource Defencebelgium.com, an A-400M (CT-05) aircraft arrived at the Melsbrek Air Force Base, where the 15th Transport Wing of the Belgian Air Force is located. It became the fourth car delivered to the Belgian Air Force and the fifth as part of a joint unit of the Belgian and Luxembourg Armed Forces.

The British Navy will receive an additional 12 small-sized RQ-20 "Puma" UAVs from AeroVironment to equip main-class warships.

The American company Cleo Robotics has started selling a "donut" drone. November 22, portal dronedj.com he announced that the Dronut X1 is available to everyone who is willing to pay $9800 for it.

The American startup Zeva Aero has built a prototype of a single-seat aero taxi Zero and is preparing to switch to manned flights on it within three to six months, New Atlas reports. It looks like a flying saucer, and is made according to the tailsitter scheme.

The maximum load for it is 8.25 tons

Roscosmos may set a record for the mass output to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Soyuz-2 rocket during the launch of the Berth node module. This was reported to TASS by cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said earlier that the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 telecommunications satellites was postponed to December 12

Specialists of the M. V. Khrunichev Center eliminated the remark identified earlier on the Briz-M upper stage, which will be used to launch the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft into target orbits. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of Roscosmos.

The agreement will allow the countries to develop mutually beneficial cooperation in manned space exploration, the creation of space technology, planetary research, remote sensing of the Earth, satellite navigation, telecommunications and communications.

2600 children from 63 countries of the world took part in the international drawing contest

Eight-year-old Yarina Zakalyuzhnaya from the city of Zhytomyr won the drawing contest of the European Space Agency, now a copy of her work will be applied to the body of the Ariane 5 rocket, which will go into space in 2023. This was reported on Tuesday by the Ukrainian publication "Public".

Scientists believe that it was formed from 1.7 to 2 billion years ago

TASS, November 23. Thanks to seismic data collected by the InSight Martian lander, scientists have discovered traces of an ancient crater under a layer of frozen lava. The description of the work was published by the scientific journal Nature Communications.

The launch of the James Webb space telescope is postponed from December 18 to December 22 due to an incident in the vertical assembly workshop during the preparation of the device for launch, NASA reported.

China has successfully put an Earth sensing satellite into orbit. The Gaofen-3 device is designed to monitor the sea and land, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The radar scans the Earth's surface in 12 modes. From orbit, images with a resolution of 1 m can be obtained. With this technology, the clarity of the shooting is not affected by weather conditions and illumination. The satellite became the second device from the Gaofen-3 series, the first was launched in 2016.

Deputy head of NASA Thomas Zurbuchen said that none of the asteroids known to specialists in the next 100 years threatens to collide with the Earth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma for ratification an agreement with Tajikistan on the creation of a joint regional air defense system of the two countries.

The US Space Forces have published photos of October tests of a promising tactical hypersonic missile PrSM firing at maximum range. According to Breaking Defense, it is not known exactly how much it flew — the military lost contact with the missile after 499.2 kilometers.