Aviation news

American startup Elroy Air has presented a pre-production version of its Chaparral hybrid cargo drone. The vertical take-off and landing device is capable of autonomously capturing cargo weighing up to 227 kilograms and delivering it to a distance of up to 483 kilometers.

Rostec United Engine Corporation has created an automatic control system (ACS) for the new PD-8 aircraft engine, which is planned to be equipped with the SSJ-NEW passenger liner. The equipment controlling the operation of the power plant, including thrust parameters and fuel consumption, is assembled on the basis of 100% Russian components and materials.

Modernization of the Unified Air Traffic Management System in Russia (EU ATM), within which several enlarged navigation centers were created, cost about 100 billion rubles. This was announced by the General Director of the Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz - Antey" Jan Novikov. According to him, as part of the modernization program, 12 enlarged centers of the unified air traffic management system and three special centers will be created and re-equipped by the end of 2022 - in Kaliningrad, Kamchatka and Crimea.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Thursday at a special plant in Dubna near Moscow presented the first flight model of the Orion drone with satellite communications, the military department told reporters.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, instructed the CEO of the Kronstadt company to create an enterprise for servicing drones supplied to the troops and noted the importance of providing conditions for the work of specialists.

The head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov and the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrey Vorobyov got acquainted with the new production

The plant for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which Kronstadt JSC opened in Dubna, will be able to produce deck-based unmanned aerial vehicles and helicopter-type vehicles. This was stated on Thursday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a visit to the new workshop of the Kronstadt company.

Serial deliveries of new Russian strike drones "Sirius" will begin to the troops in 2023, the commander-in-chief of the VKS Sergey Surovikin reported to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu on Thursday checked the production of Russia's first specialized factory of large-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the military department told reporters.

The new Russian strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Sirius" will perform its first flight in May this year, the CEO of the Kronstadt developer company Sergey Bogatikov reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

For the Russian Aerospace Forces, an air control point for strike drones will be created, the commander-in-chief of the VKS Sergey Surovikin reported to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu.

The new Russian strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Sirius" will perform its first flight in May this year, the CEO of the Kronstadt developer company Sergey Bogatikov reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The first flight of the Helios-RLD radar patrol unmanned aerial vehicle, manufactured at Kronstadt JSC, is scheduled for 2024, the company's CEO Sergey Bogatikov said.

On Tuesday, a whole series of exercises started, in which Russian servicemen are involved. Moreover, the maneuvers took place even abroad. Thus, the Russian-Chinese exercise "Peaceful Sea-2022" took place in the western part of the Arabian Sea.

Forbes: Russia may strike Ukraine with dozens of Dagger missiles

Russia can strike Ukraine not only with hundreds of cruise missiles like the X-101, but also with dozens of hypersonic aeroballistic missiles "Dagger", admits Forbes columnist David Ax.

A unit of the Russian Airborne Troops has arrived for exercises in Belarus, the country's Defense Ministry said. "At these minutes, an echelon with Russian paratroopers who arrived to participate in the inspection of the reaction forces of the Union State on the territory of Belarus is unloading at the Brest-Yuzhny railway station," the Belarusian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The task was completed by Mi-28N "Night Hunter" and Mi-8AMTSh "Terminator"

The crews of the Mi-28N "Night Hunter" and Mi-8AMTSh "Terminator" helicopters performed fire support tasks for motorized rifle units during the exercises in the Stavropol Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) told reporters on Wednesday.

Two crews of Ka-29 transport and combat helicopters at the Radygino training ground worked out the tasks of fire support for marine units, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Wednesday.

The Algerian Air Force received the first military transport aircraft C-130J-30 "Super Hercules", which arrived in the country from the Lockheed Martin enterprise in Greenville (pcs.South Carolina).

The command of the US Navy has published information - very few - about the accident of the fifth-generation F-35C fighter on the Carl Vinson nuclear aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.

America lost the first F-35 carrier-based fighter. On January 25, the US Navy press service reported that one of the aircraft of the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) wing was lost during training flights.