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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has classified information about the use of Turkish Bayraktar attack drones and American Javelin missile systems in the Donbass.

Australia will replace European MRH 90 Taipan helicopters with American Black Hawk

Australia will abandon the operation of European MRH 90 Taipan helicopters developed by Eurocopter. Canberra will replace the MRH 90 with American Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. This is reported by Defense News.

The Ukrainian-Turkish plant, which is being built in Vasylkiv (Kiev region), will produce ANKA-type jet drones - the next generation of UAVs after Bayraktar, the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the situation in Donbass, Alexey Arestovich, said on Saturday during an interview with Radio Liberty (recognized in the Russian media as a foreign agent).

The RC-135 Rivet Joint strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force flew for the first time in the airspace of Ukraine, including in the south-east and south of the country to the north of Crimea, it follows from the data of Western aviation resources.

Russia today occupies a leading position in the world in modern types of weapons, Vladimir Putin said in the film "Russia. Recent history" on the channel "Russia 1".

In the Kiev region, a Ukrainian-Turkish plant under construction will begin production of a new generation of jet unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of countering other aerial objects.

The African startup Phractyl showed a concept unlike anything we have seen before. This is an avant-garde and absurd aircraft with the likeness of "bird paws" on a caterpillar track, a tilted cabin, rotating wings and the possibility of vertical takeoff.

Two Polish Air Force F-16 fighters escorted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea, the NATO Joint Air Force Command said on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations in 2022-2023 will receive four Mi-8AMTSh-VA attack helicopters for service in the Arctic, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

A hypersonic missile is already ready for him

The Su-57 fighter will be armed with hypersonic weapons, from 2027 the aircraft will go to the troops with a new engine, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

Crews performed refueling in conditions of limited visibility, at night, using on-board lighting equipment

Pilots of supersonic MiG-31 interceptor fighters of two aviation regiments of the Central Military District (CVO) stationed in the Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories performed about 40 refueling from an air tanker during tactical flight exercises that started in the Chelyabinsk region. This is stated in a message distributed on Thursday by the press service of the district.

According to the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, on December 7, the Kuwaiti Air Force received the first batch of two Typhoon fighters produced by the Italian Leonardo group.

The Su-57 fighter will be armed with hypersonic weapons, from 2027 the aircraft will go to the troops with a new engine, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

The Russian Federation cannot supply the Be-200 amphibious aircraft to the United States because of the issue of engine certification, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

From 2024, the Hunter drone will go to the troops. Special attention in the Russian Federation is paid to heavy drones

The Russian army in the period from 2024 to 2033 will begin to receive promising long-range aviation complexes (PAK DA), First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

The British found and lifted the sunken F-35B fighter from the seabed. The plane crashed from the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in November due to a raincoat caught in the air intake.

The situation in eastern Ukraine is escalating, but any provocations by the Kiev authorities to resolve the situation in Donbass by force will be stopped, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said on Thursday at a briefing before the military attaches of foreign states.

Radioelectronic Technologies Concern (KRET, part of Rostec) has developed the first domestic servo drive for controlling drones, including at extreme temperatures, Rostec Executive Director Oleg Yevtushenko told reporters on Thursday.

Russia is fending off potential threats in the aerospace sphere by improving the combat potential of the Aerospace Forces (VKS), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said at a briefing to military attaches of foreign states on Thursday.

The strategic aviation of the United States began to appear much more often in the immediate vicinity of the eastern borders of Russia, practicing reaching the frontier of the use of cruise missiles, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said at a briefing before foreign military attaches.