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Philippine Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana said on September 16 that the Philippines is unlikely to purchase Lockheed Martin F-16V fighters as part of the multi-purpose Combat Aircraft Delivery Program (MFR) due to budget constraints.

India is extending the service life of its Mirage-2000 fighters in every possible way. September 19, portal firstpost.com He reported that the Indian Air Force is buying decommissioned aircraft from France in order to use them for spare parts.

The British Ministry of Defense has signed three contracts for the development of laser and radio frequency weapons demonstrators. One of the promising installations will be tested on board the Type 23 frigate, and the other will be installed on the Wolfhound armored vehicle.

The Italian concern Leonardo and the British company 2Excel will convert the Boeing 757-200 airliner into a flying laboratory to test technologies for the sixth-generation Tempest fighter. According to Flightglobal, the modification will take from a year to three.

The United States has agreed to expand its military presence in Australia, the country will be provided with assistance in obtaining nuclear submarines from the American side. This was announced on Thursday, September 16, by the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin.

The Russian military received a Be-200 multi-purpose amphibious aircraft as part of a state defense order, according to data from the Russian Defense Ministry published in the departmental newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda on Friday.

The cause of the fire in the engine of the Il-112B that collapsed in Kubinka is still not known

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov considers it necessary to modify the engine of the Il-112B and Il-114 aircraft, and not replace it with an imported one.

Serial deliveries of the Il-112B military transport aircraft will shift due to the disaster that occurred in August, the exact date is still unknown, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters.

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov pointed out that foreign customers are always interested in whether the native armed forces take the equipment that they offer for export

The Ministry of Defense may consider the purchase of Checkmate single-engine fighters as part of the future state armament program. This was announced to journalists by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov on the sidelines of the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Il-96-300 aircraft are being assembled at the Voronezh Aircraft Factory

Plans to create an upgraded version of the Il-96 with two engines instead of four remain, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on the sidelines of the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum.

The first of seven Turkish KC-135R Stratotanker refueling aircraft recently returned to Turkey after the modernization of the crew cabin carried out by Field Aerospace in Oklahoma City (Oklahoma).

The intersectoral engineering Center "Composites of Russia" of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University has created a technology for manufacturing volume-reinforced preforms of gas turbine engine elements using directional fiber laying. The development can be applied in the construction of products of the rocket and space, aviation, marine and transport industries. This was reported to Izvestia on Friday, September 17, in the MIC "Composites of Russia".

The test flights of four modernized Su-25 attack aircraft belonging to the country's Defense Forces have been completed in Georgia, they were previously equipped with a modern radio-electronic navigation system, the press service of the Government of Georgia reports.

The armed formations of the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) continue to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles of the Saudi coalition. So, this week it became known that another Wing Loong 2 attack drone of Chinese production was shot down over the province of Saada.

The United States could start selling the world's first fifth-generation F-22 Raptor fighter to allies like Japan, Israel and Australia, provided that the production of this aircraft is completed for itself, The Drive reports, citing declassified documents.

The crews of Ka-52 Alligators of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Southern Military District (SE) performed their first flight in the mountains of South Ossetia as part of a helicopter flight.

Lockheed Martin has presented the project of the LMXT air tanker, which will compete with the existing Boeing KC-46 aircraft in the competition of the US Air Force (Air Force), involving the creation of the KC-Y tanker, Defense News writes.

Argentina may return to the club of countries that have fighter aircraft in service. September 17, portal dailypakistan.com.pk He reported that the Ministry of Defense of Argentina has included the purchase of fighter jets in the spending plan for 2022.

Nuclear submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (Navy) can be built by reducing the order for Virginia-type submarines of the US Navy, Brian Clark, a researcher at the Hudson Institute, told Breaking Defense.

For the first time, the commanders of the battalion tactical groups of the military base of the Southern Military District (SE) used mobile anti-tank groups to fight the columns of the conditional enemy in the mountains of South Ossetia.