The development of civil aircraft construction remains one of the most important priorities for Russia with its vast territory. On July 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin said this at a meeting on the implementation of key projects in the field of civil aircraft construction on the sidelines of the MAKS-2021 International Aerospace Salon.

The Baikal aircraft, which is to replace the An-2 "maize", is planned to be retrofitted with an electric motor. This was announced on Tuesday, July 20, by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky.

The new Russian medium-haul aircraft MS-21-300 has the widest cabin in the class of single-aisle aircraft. A correspondent of Izvestia captured the interior of the airliner on video.

It is planned to produce 23 SSJ100 aircraft in 2021, and 18 such airliners in 2022. This was announced on Tuesday, July 20, by Oleg Gulyaev, director of the Regional Aircraft branch of the Irkut Corporation, during the MAKS-2021 air show.

The Mi-35P Phoenix multi-purpose helicopters with a "long" wing and a retractable landing gear began to be exported. At the moment, two international contracts are being implemented.

The Mi-28NM "Night Hunter" attack helicopter is planned to be delivered abroad. The decision on the supply of military equipment will be made following the results of the car's display at the international Aviation and Space salon MAKS-2021.

The power of the installation in take-off mode is 900 kW

The United Engine Building Company (UEC) of the Rostec state Corporation for the first time presented a hybrid power plant for light helicopters and drones at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The Russian Federation and the United States have made great progress in negotiations on the supply of Russian RD-181M rocket engines to Washington, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told Interfax.

The American government supported the purchase of Russian RD-181M engines manufactured by NPO Energomash. This was announced on July 20 in his Telegram channel by the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko.

Roskartografiya noted that they are interested in obtaining remote sensing data from spacecraft for use in operational monitoring of changes in the Earth's surface.

The test took a few seconds

SpaceX conducted static tests of the engines of the Super Heavy launch vehicle on Monday, which is expected to launch the Starship spacecraft into low-Earth orbit for further flight to Mars.

Blue Origin has launched its new spacecraft for the first time. The company's founder, Jeff Bezos, was also on board.

The American company Blue Origin plans to carry out two more launches of its New Shepard spacecraft with passengers on board. This was announced on Tuesday, July 20, at a press conference by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who owns the company.

The observatory is sending images to Earth again, the department stressed

The Hubble Orbital Observatory has fully resumed its work and is sending images to Earth again. This was announced on Monday by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that serial deliveries of the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system to the Russian military will begin this year.

Today, the XV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021 opened in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, and its work will last until July 25. The event is attended by the Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey" - existing and promising samples of civil, dual-use and military products of 14 subsidiaries of the holding are presented at the exhibition sites, according to an official press release.

For the first time, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of test live firing at a high-speed ballistic target, carried out from the Kapustin Yar test site with the latest domestic S-500 anti-aircraft missile system.

The task of the test firing of the S-500 Prometheus missile defense system was to check the launch complex and the rocket. The radar part of the system was tested and adopted by the state commission last year, military expert Sergey Khatylev, who led the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Moscow Air defense from 2007-2009, told MK.

Combat crews of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District hit the equipment and manpower of the "enemy". The exercises were held at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan Region, they fired from the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex.

The project will be ready in the coming months, said the general director of the company Alexander Mikheev

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) will prepare a project for the supply of an additional batch of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Turkey in the coming months. This was announced to journalists during the MAKS-2021 air show by Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport.