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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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).

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.

Thanks to the accident-free operation in 2019-2020, the state corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos saved over 450 million rubles. This was reported to TASS by a representative of the organization.

The situation around the planned frequency of launches of the Soyuz-5 medium rocket created by the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) and the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia remains uncertain, Progress CEO Dmitry Baranov told Russian Space.

Its activities will reduce the" entry threshold " of private players to the space activity market

The Commercial Space Center began operating on the basis of the Samara National Research University. Academician S. P. Korolev from September 1. This was reported in the press service of the university.

The US department reported that the parties, among other things, discussed a common interest in space research

The head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bill Nelson, discussed cooperation between Washington and Kiev in the space sphere, including a common interest in space research, with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Washington on Tuesday.

The document provides for providing Ukraine with the opportunity to receive information and services on "space situational awareness" from the US Space Command

Ukraine and the United States signed a Memorandum in the field of space flight safety, information and services on space situational awareness.

The Rocket Factory Augsburg company conducted strength tests of the promising RFA One rocket. The first flight of the carrier is scheduled for the end of the year.