The Yak-18T aircraft, which is powered by an engine based on the Aurus car engine, will go on its first flight in late 2021 or early 2022. This was announced on Wednesday, September 1, by Mikhail Gordin, General Director of the Central Institute of Aviation Motor Engineering named after P. I. Baranov.

Tests of a hybrid power plant based on a gas turbine engine and a superconducting electric motor at the Yak-40LL flying laboratory will be completed in 2022.

The promising Russian Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a domestic engine as an analogue of the German RED A03T V12, the general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after P. I. Baranov (part of the N.E. Zhukovsky Institute)told RIA Novosti in an interview Mikhail Gordin.

The promising Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a Russian engine not as a replacement for the German RED A03T V12, but as its analogue, Mikhail Gordin, general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after Pyotr Baranov, explained to RIA Novosti.

It became known about the cause of the crash of the Il-112B light transport aircraft in the Moscow region. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to specialists of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).

On August 27, 2021, during the visit of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S. K. Shoigu and the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R. N. Minnikhanov to the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S. P. Gorbunov (KAZ, a branch of PJSC Tupolev), the first sample of the modernized Tu-160M2 strategic bomber, which is under construction at the enterprise, was publicly demonstrated for the first time.

The Kronstadt company has signed export contracts for the supply of attack drones to countries of the far and near abroad, deliveries will begin next year, the press service of the enterprise reported on Tuesday.

Russian operational-tactical complexes (OTRK) "Iskander-M" can strike almost the entire territory of Ukraine, writes Defense Express.

The Pentagon told about a new package of US assistance to Ukraine, which will include the supply of Javelin anti-tank missile systems. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

The Defense Ministers of Ukraine and the United States, Andriy Taran and Lloyd Austin, signed an agreement on the strategic foundations of the defense partnership in Washington on Tuesday. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called this agreement "a new stage in cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in the defense sphere."

At a meeting with Ukrainian President and Defense Minister Vladimir Zelensky and Andrei Taran, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin confirmed that Washington will continue to support Kiev in countering Russia's policy, and approved Ukraine's desire to join NATO.

Russia will supply Belarus with dozens of planes, helicopters, air defense systems (air defense) and, possibly, S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs). This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on September 1.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered to involve officers from the troops in the training of cadets of departmental universities. "For the training of military personnel - including for practical training, internships, exercises, classes at training grounds and military equipment - in addition to teachers, military officers should be involved," the minister ordered at a conference call yesterday.

Among them are 967 girls, 7 thousand foreign servicemen and 15 thousand pupils of pre-university educational institutions

More than 63 thousand people, including 967 girls, started classes at universities and pre-university educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on September 1, the head of the Russian military Department Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday during the celebrations dedicated to the Day of Knowledge and the beginning of the school year.

The army Corps of the Russian Black Sea Fleet held exercises in the Crimea, where tasks for comprehensive support of troops were worked out, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

The revenue from the export of weapons and the production of civilian products allows Rostec to cover losses from low profitability when fulfilling the state defense order, said the head of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov.

Modern devices for conducting radiation reconnaissance and dosimetric control – IMD-7 dose rate meters-have been received by the units of the RCHB protection of the combined-arms army of the VVO stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

The militants of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) will not be able to use for military purposes the abandoned American military equipment at the Kabul airport, said Pentagon press Secretary John Kirby.

The representative of the Afghan Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation), Zabiullah Mujahid, proclaimed the victory of the movement in the war against foreign forces, but at the same time noted that the Taliban intend to build good relations with the United States and other countries.

Son of the founder of the terrorist movement "Taliban "(banned in Russia) Mullah Yakub Akhund has been appointed as the Minister of Defense of Afghanistan. This was reported on August 31 by an informed source.