The chief designer of the Il-76 and Il-78 aircraft, Andrey Yurasov, has died at the age of 59. This was announced on Tuesday, August 17, according to the Telegram channel "Il-novosti".

The prototype of the latest Russian military transport aircraft Il-112B, which crashed in Kubinka near Moscow, has already had engine problems several times before. This was reported on Tuesday, August 17, by the Telegram channel WarGonzo, citing a source in the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).

On August 17, 2021, the first and so far only flight prototype of the Il-112B military transport aircraft (serial number 01-01, tail number "01 yellow", registration number RF-41400) crashed in the Moscow region near the Kubinka airfield. The crew of three people, led by the commander of the Hero of Russia, test pilot Nikolai Kuimov, was killed. The cause of the disaster, apparently, was a fire in the right engine of the TV7-117ST.

One of the most important promising areas of activity of the production unitary enterprise "Plant of Precision Electromechanics" (Republic of Belarus) is the creation of aviation weapons for UAVs.

The use of long-range Tu-22M3 bombers as a "long arm" will be Russia's response to the possible aggression of the Taliban against the CSTO countries, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Yuri Baluyevsky, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers performed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the duration of their raid was about nine hours. On the route, long-range aircraft were accompanied by Su-35S fighters of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District.

The construction of the fifth-generation Checkmate light fighter demonstrator cost about $30 million, a source in the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) told Interfax.

PJSC "Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company "(part of PJSC" UAC " of Rostec State Corporation) has changed its legal status from a public joint-stock company to a joint-stock company.

A record budget of 133.9 trillion rubles will be allocated for the needs of the Indonesian Defense Ministry in 2022. rupees ($9.318 billion), according to the resource Kumparan.com.

Looking at the weapons available to the United States, their opponents should, when talking about a possible attack on the country, say to themselves: "Not today." The main goal of the Pentagon was named by the deputy chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the United States, General John Hyten. This is reported by The National Interest.

The modernization of a section of the state highway that will connect a number of military bases between Texas and Georgia was included in the US infrastructure bill for $ 1 trillion. This legislative act was adopted by the country's Senate in early August and provides for the extension of the highway to connect 12 military bases located in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

The competent authorities of the CIS countries will work out issues of preventing terrorist attacks on the objects of marine infrastructure and the oil and gas industry, as well as their suppression during the exercises "Caspian-Antiterrorism 2021".

Within the framework of the competition, participants will have three stages: "Obstacle course", "Survival Trail" and "Relay race"

Marines from China, Iran, Venezuela, Abkhazia and South Ossetia arrived in Vladivostok to take part in the final stage of the competition of the Army International Games ("ArMI-2021") "Marine landing". This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF).

Rosoboronexport will organize a single Russian exhibition at the International Defense Industry Exhibition IDEF 2021, which will be held in Istanbul from August 17 to 20, the company said earlier.

The militants of the Palestinian group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, congratulated the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) on the rapid capture of Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

The United States military will respond in a mirror manner to any manifestation of aggression by the militants of the radical group "Taliban" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) against the American population. This was announced on Sunday, August 15, by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

Two pilots are in a serious condition in the hospital

An Afghan Air Force plane that crashed in Uzbekistan was shot down while trying to illegally cross the border, two pilots are in a serious condition in hospital, the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan reported on Monday.

The Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan on Monday, August 16, confirmed the fact of the crash of an Afghan Air Force plane in the Surkhandarya region of the republic.

US President Joe Biden, having failed to cope with the situation in Afghanistan, suffered one of the most brutal defeats in American history, former President Donald Trump said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said that after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the British military had no real opportunity to stay there alone, without allies, Sky News reports.