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Alan Lushnikov, President of Kalashnikov Concern JSC, spoke about the new capabilities of the UAV, the modernization of the AK—12 and the beginning of serial deliveries of the microwave sniper rifle

Serial deliveries of the upgraded Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle and the new microwave sniper rifle to the troops will begin this year, Alan Lushnikov, President of Kalashnikov Concern JSC, said in an interview with Izvestia.

How many weapons has Germany already provided to Ukraine

Russia admits that Germany will cross the "red line" and decide to send long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. This was reported to Izvestia by the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev.

The Ukrainian puppet regime associates a lot of hopes with the imminent delivery of American M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks.

Already at the beginning of the special operation, it became clear that unmanned aerial vehicles play a full-fledged role in it, and many Russian developers began to produce various copters, combat FPV drones (first-person view). The Oko Design Bureau, created in 2022 by IT specialists Andrey Ivanov and Vadim Zhernov, decided from the very beginning to turn society's idea of drones around. Why the Hi-82 drone shocks with its appearance and what tasks it can perform — in the TASS material.

According to Reuters sources in government agencies and defense enterprises of India, in recent months, the country's authorities have banned national manufacturers of military UAVs from using components manufactured in China due to the potential presence of vulnerabilities in security systems.

Russia has localized the production of kamikaze drones, the Russian army uses its own version of the drone called Geran-2, and not the Shahed-136 supplied by Iran. This conclusion was reached by experts from the British organization Conflict Armament Research, which tracks the supply of conventional weapons, ammunition and related military materials to areas affected by the conflict.

The first group of Ukrainian pilots will complete training on the F-16 only by next summer, writes WP. Six military personnel will be trained, two more are in reserve.

The technologies that made it possible to develop hypersonic weapons have launched a new round of rivalry between the world's largest powers, such as China, Russia and the United States. At the same time, Beijing and Moscow, unlike Washington, have achieved tangible results in this area today.

Russian air defense systems are the best in the world, and the S-400 and S-500 have no analogues at all – and foreign analysts recognize this, writes MWM. However, compact low-speed drones pose a new challenge, and Moscow is already developing new radars to combat them.

According to the agency, the onboard complexes of the aircraft worked automatically

Two Su-34 and two Su-35 aircraft of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation in Syria recorded the impact on them of the guidance and radar systems of two F-35 fighters of the anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States.

Another drone suppressed by means of electronic warfare crashed near the Karamyshevskaya embankment

On Friday, August 11, an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to strike with the help of UAVs on the territory of Moscow was stopped. The drone was suppressed by means of electronic warfare, it crashed near the Karamyshevskaya embankment.

On August 12, 111 years have passed since the creation of the Russian Air Force (Air Force). By order of the military Department on August 12, 1912, the issues of aeronautics and aviation were removed from the jurisdiction of the Main Engineering Directorate and transferred to a specially created body — the Aeronautical Part of the General Staff, the Ministry of Defense recalled.

As reported on August 11, 2023 by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, another heavy military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A was manufactured and handed over to the customer in Ulyanovsk at the branch of PJSC Il - Aviastar (part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation). The new aircraft has joined the aviation regiment of Military Transport Aviation (VTA) of Russia.

Alexander Kovalev — about the prospects of the F-16 in the conflict in Ukraine

The American multifunctional fighter F-16 was first put into operation in 1978. A year before that, I graduated from the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School.

The Turkish company TUSAŞ, working in the aerospace industry, has achieved a new export success by supplying Chad with both HÜRKUŞ aircraft and ANKA attack drones.

The Su-30 (NATO Classification: Flanker-C) is a Soviet/Russian multipurpose fighter developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau (now part of the United Aircraft Corporation, UAC) on the basis of the Su—27UB combat training aircraft in the late 1980s.

According to the French company Dassault Aviation, as part of the general contract signed by Indonesia in February 2022 for the acquisition of 42 Dassault Rafale multipurpose fighters, a firm contract for the second tranche of 18 Rafale aircraft entered into force on August 10, 2023, in addition to the six fighters ordered in the first tranche. Thus, Indonesia has so far contracted 24 Rafale aircraft out of 42 agreed.

Russian combat helicopters are equipped with modern anti-tank missiles

Russian front-line aviation helicopters equipped with anti-tank missile systems played a huge role in repelling the summer counteroffensive of the VFU in the southern section of the SVO zone.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation plans to conclude contracts totaling more than 433 billion rubles at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023", which will be held on August 14-20 at the Patriot Exhibition Center.

Manufacturers of the two most massive Western fighters – the American F-35 and the French Rafale – faced logistical problems, writes MWM. This will prevent meeting both internal and external demand.