The US Air Force intends to reduce its fleet of fighter and attack aircraft from seven to four types. The F-22 Raptor will not be on the updated list, said the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Charles Brown, at the McAleese and Associates conference.

Chinese jet engines have reached the level when they began to be installed on single-engine fighters. May 11 portal defensenews.com He reported that the first production Chengdu J-10 fighters with locally produced engines entered service with the PLA Air Force.

American engineers reported that for the first time they managed to develop an engine with an oblique detonation wave, which is able to accelerate the aircraft to Mach 17, or about 20 thousand km / h. This is written by New Atlas.

The company Regent (Boston, USA) received pre-orders in the amount of 465 million dollars from those wishing to purchase high-speed electric ekranoplanes "Seaglider", capable of flying over the water surface at a speed of about 300 km / h for a range of almost 600 km.

The exercises will be attended by about 1.5 thousand military personnel, including pilots from Japan and South Korea, who will arrive to exchange tactical and technical experience, the press service of the Pacific Air Force reported.

The innovative foam plastic "Akrimid" is used in the production of space, aviation and land equipment, the state corporation specified

Innovative foam plastic "Akrimid", used in the production of space, aviation and land equipment, began to be mass-produced in Russia. It replaced imported materials, the press service of the state corporation Rostec told TASS.

NASA reported that the malfunction does not pose a threat to the life of the crew

The Water Processor Assembly (WPA) system installed on the American residential module of the International Space Station (ISS) Tranquility was disconnected from the power supply due to a possible leak. This was announced on Wednesday on its website by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft in December 2021. This was announced on Thursday, May 13, by the company Space Adventures.

The space nuclear tug "Zeus" with a megawatt-class power plant can be used in the Russian air defense system (air defense), RIA Novosti reports, citing materials from the Keldysh Research Center.

The Russian space nuclear tug "Zeus" with a megawatt power propulsion system can be used in the country's air defense system to track aircraft and target weapons, according to the materials of the Research Center. Keldysh (part of Roscosmos), available to RIA Novosti.

Unable to acquire modern combat aircraft, Ukraine decided to focus on unmanned aircraft. It is expected to receive about fifty "Bayraktar TB2".

Georgia, which is strengthening its defensive capabilities after the failed invasion of South Ossetia in 2008, will receive an upgraded air defense system from the Israeli company Rafael by the end of the year, Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze said on Thursday, the correspondent of the newspaper VZGLYAD in Tbilisi reports.

The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reports today, May 13, that as a result of ongoing Israeli strikes in the Palestinian enclave, 83 people were killed, including 17 children and eight women. 487 people were injured in various degrees of severity.

Calculations of operational-tactical missile systems (OTRK) "Iskander-M" worked out the destruction of important objects of the imaginary enemy at the exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the Baltic Fleet (BF) said on Thursday.

Moscow's missile defense in the event of a nuclear strike is recognized as the most effective in the world. This is the conclusion of an American military columnist for the National Interest magazine.

"Can you guess which city is best protected from a nuclear missile attack? London? Washington, DC? No. This is in Russia, " writes expert Caleb Larson.

The "Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering" reported that work on the reconstruction of the monorail section is already being completed, where they will demonstrate the layout

The model of the magnetic cushion train will be demonstrated for the first time by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering Corporation (MIT, which is the developer of the Yars complex, part of Roscosmos) in August. This was reported to TASS in MIT on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the enterprise.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines has published a" Notice of Order "(NOA – Notice of Award) for the supply of 90 light trucks GAZ" Sadko NEXT " produced by the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ Group, Nizhny Novgorod).

The first batch of upgraded 2S3M "Acacia" self-propelled artillery units has been handed over to the Russian Defense Ministry.

At the military parade in Tula on May 9, the BMD-2M with a single combat compartment "Bereg"was first demonstrated.

From the original versions, they differ in the installation of a new, more massive-looking sight with a laser rangefinder, a thermal imaging channel and an automatic target tracking system.

Specialists of the Military Academy of Logistics (VA MTO, St. Petersburg) named after General of the Army Khrulev came up with a project of a unique transport-loading robot based on one of the most massive tractors in the Russian army MT-LB (also known as "Motoliga"), follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.