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The F-22 Raptor fighters will undergo the last large-scale modernization during their military career. November 6, portal defensenews.com He reported that the US Air Force had signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to modernize the Predator fleet.

The Army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. This is stated in the report of the US Department of Defense, distributed on Wednesday, November 3.

The conflict between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the US Navy was shown on video.

The network published a video of a recent incident in the Gulf of Oman between the forces of the IRGC and the US Navy. The confrontation was filmed, among other things, from Iranian drones.

No violations were detected during the drone strike on Kabul in August, the Inspector General of the US Air Force, General Sami Said, said at a briefing at the Pentagon on November 3.

The cost per flight hour of the promising Russian fifth–generation fighter Checkmate will be seven times lower than that of its main competitor, the American F-35, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov said in an interview with the French edition of Le Figaro.

The Australians are continuing to test a potentially revolutionary unmanned wingman that will be able to operate in conjunction with fighter jets. The new tests included flying with the landing gear retracted.

Major General, Honored Test Pilot Magomed Tolboev described the problems with the AN-12 aircraft, one of which crashed in the Irkutsk region the day before. According to the expert, these aircraft are old, there are no spare parts and factories in the country where they could be repaired. He stated this in an interview with URA.ru .

The cost of a flight hour of a promising Russian light tactical aircraft (LTS), known as Checkmate and Su-75, will be seven times lower than that of the American fifth-generation fighter F-35 Lightning II, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov told the French newspaper Le Figaro.

The use of drones increases the survivability of personnel, said Major General Alexei Belousov

Starting this year, Russian military intelligence officers will begin receiving the latest communication systems for real-time coordination on the battlefield. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the head of intelligence - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces for Intelligence, Major General Alexei Belousov.

In the 2021 academic year, the Russian military conducted more than 200 command and staff exercises on the territory of the Western Military District. This was announced on Wednesday, November 3, by the press service of the ZVO.

To Miho Air Base (Tottori Prefecture) On October 29, the first (out of four ordered) multi-purpose tanker KC-46A produced by Boeing arrived.

Delivery of the first samples to the troops is scheduled for 2022

Development work (R&D) on the creation of a helicopter-type reconnaissance and strike drone under the code "Termite" will be completed by the end of 2021. This was reported to RT by the head of the special design bureau of the Strela Research and Production Enterprise (NPP) (part of the Kronstadt company). Boris Trunov.

"Making the impossible possible," - under this slogan, the American company Northrop Grumman has released a new video about promising military developments. On November 2, a video was published on the company's official YouTube channel, which shows yet-to-be-announced planes and drones.

The Russian reconnaissance and strike unmanned helicopter complex "Termit" will be equipped with software algorithms with elements of artificial intelligence. The neural network will allow the drone to engage in "free hunting".

At the Russian-Serbian exercises "Slavic Shield-2021", an aerial target — a helicopter simulator (VM-V) was used. Unmanned helicopters developed by Technodinamika Holding of Rostec State Corporation simulated an air raid by a simulated enemy. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the holding.

Commander of the Azerbaijani Air Force Ramiz Tahirov told (and illustrated his words with video clips) about a curious tactic to neutralize enemy air defenses during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to the agency, the fighters of the Danish and Portuguese Air Forces took to the air on October 18 and 29

NATO fighter jets deployed on a rotating basis at the Lithuanian Zoknai airbase escorted Russian military aircraft twice in October, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Lithuanian Defense Ministry on the situation in the country's airspace.

The exercises took place near the Crimean Peninsula, up to 10 aircraft participated in the maneuvers

The crews of the aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet, together with the calculations of coastal missile systems, worked out strikes on a sea target during the exercises, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

The introduction of fifth-generation technologies at the branch of Sukhoi Company JSC - Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin (part of PJSC UAC Rostec Group) required a fundamentally new approach to the organization of production and design.

The first use of autonomous drones for military purposes will not be accompanied by the appearance of a giant fireball in the sky and may initially look quite harmless, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.