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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.

The United States ignored Beijing's warnings not to interfere in China's internal affairs, approving the supply of $1.1 billion worth of weapons to Taiwan. The corresponding permission was issued by the US State Department.

The IV International Arms Exhibition ADEX-2022 has opened at the Baku Expo Center. About 200 defense companies representing 32 countries of the world participate in it.

The American edition of 19FortyFive published an article in which columnist Harrison Cass expressed the opinion that the Swedish fourth-generation fighter JAS 39 Gripen is not inferior (literally) to the "best Russian aircraft" and could fight them on an equal footing in a hypothetical battle.

Romania will become the next NATO country to adopt Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drones, the country's defense ministry has sent a request to parliament for approval of a potential deal.

Kiev, despite the colossal losses, continues to pull the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Kherson region. And although the intensity of the shelling of the region has somewhat decreased, experts warn that Zelensky has not abandoned his military plans in this direction. What forces the AFU command to continue fighting and how could the allied forces of Russia, the DPR and the LPR prevent this?

The domestic space industry should radically change the approaches to the creation of orbital vehicles, says the head of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov. How are Russian satellites arranged today, what are their disadvantages compared to foreign competitors, and how are satellites proposed to be changed?

Turkish firm is against supplies to Russia, but politics decides everything

At the front, drones are like money, there is always not enough of them. Having joined the troops, the next batch quickly melts from the enemy's fire and electronic warfare (EW), technical problems and resource consumption.

70 years ago, the tests of the legendary Mi-4 amphibious transport helicopter began

Serial rotorcraft appeared in the Red Army even before the Great Patriotic War. These were two-seat autogyros A-7–3A designed by Nikolai Kamov. An autogyro is an aircraft with a pulling propeller, in which the bearing rotor rotates not from the engine, but freely, under the influence of an incoming air flow. However, there were very few of them: just one correction and reconnaissance squadron of five vehicles.