Aviation news

The Network posted new images of the most powerful aircraft carrier in the history of China, which is in the final stage of construction. In addition, the artist depicted in detail an air group consisting of promising fifth-generation fighters.

The aeroplatform is capable of climbing to a height of 20-40 km and moving along a given route for several months

Specialists of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR, Tomsk) have developed a new type of high-altitude balloon that can reduce the cost of scientific research in the stratosphere. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the university.

The Americans are preparing to get their enemies out of the ground. On October 13, the press service of the US Air Force reported that the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator bomb passed the first test by air drop.

The Su-57 is designed to destroy all types of air, ground and surface targets

More than 70 Su-57 aircraft will be delivered to the Russian army by 2027, including several in 2021, Rostec said, commenting on an article by National Interest, which claims that the fifth-generation Russian Su-57 fighter is unlikely to enter service until 2027.

The 47th Bomber Aviation Regiment will be relocated to Voronezh by the end of 2021 on Su-34 aircraft, which is currently based in Buturlinovka, Voronezh Region. This was reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his working trip, Interfax reports on Thursday, October 14.

The air defense forces of Russia and Serbia conducted a training to repel an enemy air raid during a joint exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Russian fifth-generation aircraft do not give rest to the West, so the Su-57 and the Checkmate regularly become the target of information stuffing. This was reported to Izvestia on Thursday, October 14, at Rostec.

The head of the Russian Military Department, Sergei Shoigu, highly appreciated the results of the work of specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on the creation of a modern training and material base of the Zhukovsky and Gagarin Air Force Academy in Voronezh.

Pilots of a separate naval fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet, who arrived from the Kola Arctic in the Crimea, began training at the Saki airfield.

The demonstrator of the multi-purpose military helicopter Defiant broke its own previous speed record in direct horizontal flight, reaching a speed of 247 knots (457 kilometers per hour). Sikorsky has posted a corresponding video of a helicopter flight with a jet aircraft on Facebook.

The company announced that it already has a set of proposals

Branch of PJSC "sUkhoi Company" Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin" (part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation) plans to enter the state program of the military-industrial complex, which will be calculated until 2033, said the director of the branch Alexander Pekarsh.

Seventy-year-old HYDRA 70 rockets have received modern capabilities. On October 12, the press service of BAE Systems announced the successful use of APKWS ammunition against aerial targets.

The Chinese corporation Xian Aircraft Corporation (XAC) has completed the assembly of the second prototype of the KJ-600 AWACS carrier-based aircraft, which is being developed for use on aircraft carriers of the PLA Navy.

The United States planted a time bomb in Afghanistan, leaving a large number of weapons there, said Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

The US Air Force has completed a series of tests of the new GBU-72 concrete-piercing bomb weighing 2.3 tons, during which it was dropped from the F-15 Strike Eagle heavy fighter-bomber. The striking capability of the GBU-72 will be significantly higher than that of the comparable GBU-28, which the US military has been using for three decades.

The pseudo-satellite Zephyr S of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has set a flight altitude record for its class of drones. He climbed 23.2 thousand meters.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have begun regular use of Bayraktar TB2 attack drones purchased from Turkey, using them for various missions, including on the demarcation line in the Donbas. This can be judged by the incoming information from both sides of the conflict and independent sources.

The court in The Hague, instead of establishing the truth in the case of the crash of the Malaysian civil airlines flight MH17, is engaged in the "transfer of arrows" from Kiev to Moscow. This is stated in a statement issued on October 12 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

Two American strategic bombers B-1B Lancer, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew near the borders of Russia over Lithuania. This was reported by the command of the US Air Force in Europe and Africa, RIA Novosti reports.

The exercise involving MiG-31BM interceptor fighters, Su-34 bombers and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft of the Central Military District (CVO) began in the Chelyabinsk Region, as well as in the Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories, the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.