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Russia and China can destroy American aircraft in this terrible way

With the adoption of long–range air-to-air missiles in the Russian and Chinese Air Forces, which will be delivered to the target by fifth-generation aircraft, the Pentagon may have serious problems, writes TNI. The US has not yet developed an effective defense plan against these killer missiles.

On September 7, 2022, an agreement was signed at the enterprise of the Polish company ZM Mesko S.A. (part of the Polish state military-industrial association Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa - PGZ) in Skarzisko-Kamenne on the acquisition by the Estonian armed forces of the Polish portable anti-aircraft missile system Piorun.

Military review of Izvestia Anton Lavrov — on ways to respond to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with precision weapons

Ukrainian forces have recently increased their shelling of Russian territory. Their drones and missiles reach Belgorod and Crimea. On Wednesday, September 7, the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Zaluzhny, said that in August a series of missile strikes were carried out on objects on the peninsula, including the Saki airfield.

Fifth-generation F–35 aircraft are the national pride of Washington, they are widely promoted by the USA. However, recently they have been accompanied by a series of troubles – then frequent accidents, then a recent scandal with Chinese alloys. American experts have revealed the fact of the use of materials of Chinese origin, which were involved in the engines of the F-35 aircraft. We are talking about an alloy of cobalt and samarium, which was brought from China.

The Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ) named after Yu.A. Gagarin in 2022 plans to transfer to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation multifunctional Su-35S fighters and fifth-generation Su-57 fighters, the press service of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec) reported.

Ukraine is actively conducting terrorist work on the Russian Federation with the full support and sponsorship of Washington

The American leadership is considering the supply of weapons systems to Ukraine that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be able to use on the territory of the Russian Federation. These can be long-range ATACMS missiles for HIMARS complexes, as well as aviation weapons of destruction. In Ukraine, they no longer hide their intentions

Washington has announced another $1.1 billion package of military aid to Taiwan. The White House is confident that the next arms shipments will force Beijing to retreat from the island. However, the Chinese authorities are not going to change their plans. About what is happening in the region — in the material of RIA Novosti.

As reported on September 10, 2022, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC UAC, part of Rostec State Corporation), the Yuri Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which is part of it, manufactured and handed over to the Russian Aerospace Forces a batch of new Su-35S aircraft. The planes flew from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to the home airfield. These 4++ generation fighters, built at KnAAZ, are completing the third contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense for delivery to the Russian Aerospace Forces. The first batch of combat winged vehicles was delivered in the fall of 2021.

The Turkish company Baykar presented the project of a new plant, which it plans to build on the territory of Ukraine. Images of a new enterprise for the production of drones are published by the Ukrainian press.

The Russian Defense Ministry previously reported that ammunition detonated at the airfield

The explosions at the Saki airfield in Crimea involved the Ukrainian military, said the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and the first deputy chairman of the Defense Committee of the Rada Mikhail Zabrodsky. The incident occurred on August 9, when the Russian Defense Ministry reported that there was a detonation of ammunition at the airfield without "fire impact".

The APU received the first 20 WARMATE barrage ammunition (BB), which are used by the armies of Poland and other NATO member countries. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced on September 7 by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.

The United States has another problem with the fifth-generation fighter F-35. As it turned out, the aircraft manufacturers use materials produced in China in its design, which violates American law.

India has strict restrictions on purchases of defense products abroad. They were introduced to create favorable conditions for the development of the domestic defense industry, but now they prevent the replacement of obsolete military equipment with modern models.

According to the newspaper Phileleftheros, the drones were purchased by the charitable foundation of Ukrainian TV presenter Sergei Pritula for €700 thousand.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Poseidon brand The Cypriot production was delivered to Ukraine. This was reported on Thursday by the Greek Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros.

The United States supplies Ukraine with high-precision Excalibur artillery shells, as it became known from the Pentagon reports. Since spring, the APU has received about a thousand such shells. Presumably, it was with their help that American howitzers were hitting the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson. How can the Russian army neutralize the excalibur strikes and what analogues do we have for the same high-precision shooting at American artillery batteries?

Britain was forced to urgently change the aircraft carrier for deployment off the eastern coast of the United States – instead of the Prince of Wales, the Queen Elizabeth went on a campaign. And all because HMS Prince of Wales shamefully broke down right at the beginning of its journey. What happened to the UK's most modern ship, why has this country been doing badly with aircraft carriers in recent decades – and what lessons does this bring for Russia?

Russia intends to completely rebuild air transportation. And the first important step on this path is to transfer Russian airlines from foreign planes to exclusively domestic ones. Western sanctions have pushed our carriers to form the largest package of orders for domestic trunk aircraft in modern history. Is the domestic industry ready for such a challenge?

General Popov told what the feature of the MiG-41 fighter will be

The project of the new Russian MiG-41 fighter has attracted the attention of American experts. The publication The Nationl Interest told about this plane. The MiG-41 or PAK DP project (a promising long-range interception aviation complex) should replace the MiG-31 high-altitude fighters, its construction in Russia was announced back in 2013. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the specifics of this project.

The rapid pace of development of China's military aviation is well documented. Western observers are looking forward to new designs and variants of existing ones, and manufacturing plants maintain a seemingly inexorable pace of deliveries. At the same time, the domestic production of air-based weapons for arming these aircraft is covered in less detail. For years, China's progress in air-to-air missiles, or AAM [air-to-air missiles], has been ignored or achievements downplayed.

On Monday, the United States reported that 2 long-range aircraft flew over the countries of the Middle East. They practiced the tactics of bombing the region against the backdrop of increasing tensions in relations with Iran. According to the commander of the aviation of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexus Grinkevich, the US Air Force practiced joint actions with allies to transfer bomber aircraft to the Middle East.