Aviation news

Flight tests of a hybrid power plant with a superconducting electric motor have begun. It was installed on a flying laboratory based on the Yak-40. According to N + 1 Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after Baranov, the first flight of an experimental aircraft with a hybrid installation took place on June 17. In July, he took to the air again at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSK) MiG has begun developing a carrier-based fighter of the 5th generation, which will be made using stealth technology, and plans to create a prototype of the aircraft in the next few years, a source in the defense industry complex told RIA Novosti.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked a military base that housed a number of buildings used by Hamas members, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Russian radar stations (radars) over the past week escorted 47 foreign vehicles near the borders of the country, follows from the data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, published on Monday, July 26, on the website of the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda".

The US Department of Defense showed the aerial refueling of the Boeing E-4B airliner, known as the "Doomsday"aircraft. The corresponding post was published by Pentagon press Secretary John Kirby on Twitter.

Baykar Defense has published the concept of the MIUS jet drone, designed to equip the first Turkish aircraft carrier Anadolu.

More than a hundred Russian military helicopters will be delivered to customers at home and abroad this year, said the head of the Russian Helicopters holding company, Andrey Boginsky.

The Turkish company Baykar Makina on July 20 on its Twitter page for the first time demonstrated a render image of the conceptual design of the MIUS (UCAV) combat unmanned aerial vehicle.

The creation of a military control aircraft in the event of a nuclear war began in Voronezh on the basis of a wide-body Il-96-400M, in total, the troops will receive two such air command posts, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the defense industry.

Currently, the project of the new "Doomsday aircraft" Il-96-400M is only at the development stage. This was reported to Izvestia on Monday, July 26, by sources in the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.

The newest Russian Checkmate fighter will be equipped with the most modern complex of avionics equipment, Vladimir Mikheev, adviser to the First Deputy general director of the Concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET), part of the Rostec state Corporation, said at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The US will provide assistance to the Afghan army, including supporting its actions on the ground with airstrikes, said the commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Kenneth Mackenzie.

The need to create a "doomsday" aircraft based on the IL-96-400M is associated with the emergence of a new generation of communication and information processing equipment, including from space, Viktor Murakhovsky, a member of the expert council at the board of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti.

According to the Czech Ministry of Defense, representatives of the Ministry's Armaments and Procurement department at the enterprise in Seville (Spain) received the second BTA C-295MW aircraft, contracted from Airbus Defense and Space S. A.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia has prepared a strategy for the development of the transport industry, which the agency plans to implement from 2021 to 2030. In particular, digital passenger profile systems will be created to pay for travel using biometrics and calculate the optimal travel route, and the use of unmanned vehicles will also be regulated.

The Egyptians conducted exercises in which the French Rafale fighter defeated the Russian Su-35. Both aircraft belong to the fourth generation.

The National Air Corps of Afghanistan, along with Western-made equipment, actively uses Mi-35 combat helicopters in battles with militants of the Taliban terrorist organization banned in Russia.

The US Air Force plans to abandon modernization and withdraw from combat more than 180 combat aircraft that have served their time in order to free up funds for the purchase of new weapons within the framework of the new defense budget for 2022, it follows from the documents considered in the US Senate.

During MAKS, Russia held a presentation of the promising Mi-171A3 helicopter, which is in a broad sense a deep modernization of the Mi-8/17/171.

The Su-27 fighter rose to intercept the FGR fighter.4 "Typhoon" of the German Air Force, the National Defense Control Center of Russia reported.