Aviation news

One of the demonstrators of the reusable stage of the promising Russian light rocket "Krylo-SV" will receive a landing gear, a turbojet engine and a nose cone, like an airplane, which will allow it to take off, fly and return to the airfield in the same way as a drone (UAV) does, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the rocket and space industry.

Russian Su-27 and Su-30 fighters rose to escort US reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea, no border violations were allowed. This was announced on Friday, December 3, by the Ministry of Defense.

The possibilities of using an autopilot with artificial intelligence will be studied on the basis of the Ka-226 helicopter, it follows from the materials of public procurement.

The UAE will buy a record number of Rafale fighters from France, according to Dassault Aviation. In July, the head of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov called this French aircraft an analogue of the promising Su-75.

The American Navy is learning to work with the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker. On December 3, the press service of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced that the first prototype of the "flying canister" was delivered to the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN-77).

A civilian plane flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change course over the Black Sea to avoid a dangerous approach with a foreign reconnaissance aircraft. This was announced on December 4 by a source in the air traffic control services.

The American army launched a drone strike in Syria, its target was one of the influential field commanders of Al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), a representative of the Central Command said on Saturday on the American Fox News channel.

The deputy head of the interim government of the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation), Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, called on Uzbekistan to return the planes and helicopters operated by Afghan pilots after the overthrow of the previous government.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation hopes that the certification of the MS-21 aircraft will be completed by the end of this year. This was announced to TASS on December 4 by the head of the department Denis Manturov.

The United Arab Emirates is buying 80 Rafale fighters. On December 3, the press service of Dassault Aviation announced the signing of a "historic contract" for the latest modification of a combat aircraft.

Turkey is preparing to supply at least 20 more Bayraktar-TB2 attack drones to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports, citing sources in Turkish government and military-industrial circles.

Rosaviatsia will send a protest through diplomatic channels in connection with the frequent cases of flights of NATO military aircraft in the area of the Russian borders and the Black Sea, which carries risks for civilian vessels. This was reported in the Federal Air Transport Agency on Saturday, December 4.

Ukraine denies violation of the air space of Belarus during the exercises

Belarusian border guards said that the Ukrainian military aircraft "Mi-8" crossed the state border of the republic and went deep into its territory for a kilometer. And they published a video where a helicopter flies over the forest. In Kiev, another version - there was no incident, there was no violation of the state border of Belarus. About the situation - in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".

NATO servicemen often complain about the maneuvers of the Russian military, which they carry out in dangerous proximity to ships and aircraft of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Is studying the possibility of retaliatory measures for Kiev's purchase of Turkish drones

The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin promised to destroy Turkish Bayraktar drones in case Kiev tries to strike them on the territory of the DPR.

The United States will produce 480 new tactical nuclear bombs in the B61-12 modification by 2025, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus handed a protest note to the military attache at the Embassy of Ukraine in the republic in connection with the increased cases of border violations, the press service of the defense department reported.

The actions of the US Air Force pose a threat to civil aviation. This was announced on December 5 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

The incident with the US reconnaissance aircraft, due to which a civilian aircraft was forced to change course, needs to be assessed at the international level. Dmitry Belik, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, told Izvestia on December 5.

Nature continues to share with us its "know-how" with great generosity, the stock of which is unlikely to ever run out, and does it completely free of charge. This time, engineers from Stanford "borrowed" from her, or rather from the falcon, its unique claws, with which it confidently sits on a variety of surfaces and deftly grabs prey.