The Russian intelligence aviation is so weak that it is not able to "reciprocate" the flights of reconnaissance aircraft and drones of NATO countries along the Russian borders, according to the Polish publication Defence24.

The US Navy has lost one of its helicopters. According to the press service of the 3rd Fleet of the US Navy on August 31, a multi-purpose helicopter MH-60S Knighthawk with six servicemen on board crashed off the coast of California. The incident occurred at 16: 30 local time (at 2: 30 on September 1, Moscow time).

On September 1, 2021, the Airbus Group announced the conclusion of a contract for the supply of two A400M turboprop four-engine military transport aircraft to the armed forces of Kazakhstan. The first of them should be delivered in 2024.

The US Congress wanted to allocate additional funds for the modernization of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II multifunctional fighter-bombers. Additional money was proposed to be allocated for the creation of an improved power plant of the aircraft, according to the portal Janes.

The Turkish Aviation Association and Ukrspetsexport Group of Companies signed an agreement on joint maintenance and repair of Mi-17 helicopters during the IDEF-2021 exhibition.

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.