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The Americans are increasing their capabilities to resist unmanned swarms. July 27, portal thedrive.com He reported that Raytheon has successfully tested the Coyote Block 3 drone, created at the request of the US Army.

General Atomics has shown what a potentially revolutionary UAV carrier of air — to-air missiles can look like. Such devices will be launched from the carrier aircraft.

The CIS countries, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa have expressed a desire to purchase Russian Orion reconnaissance and strike drones during MAKS-2021, the press service of the Kronstadt developer company reported.

On July 22, a solemn ceremony of the transfer of a batch of equipment and special equipment to Nicaragua by Russia took place at the Managua airport.

The Russian pilots told who will win in the battle between the Chekmat (Su-75) and the F-35.

I asked the pilots to conduct an imaginary battle between the promising light fighter Chekmat (Su-75) and the American F-35 KP.Ru.

The Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has started working on a pilot project for assembling and painting aircraft and conducting technical control using Augmented reality (AR) technologies.

Military pilots will be able to control the Su-57 multifunctional fifth-generation fighter with the help of eyes and speech. Special programs are being developed for this purpose.

The American company General Atomics has shown how the MQ-9A Reaper attack drone will pick up a small Sparrowhawk jet in flight. This will help him with a cable with an orange sphere at the end, which Sparrowhawk will cling to with flaps.

For the first time, Ukraine has sent the Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) purchased earlier from Turkey to patrol the Black Sea waters. This was reported on Wednesday, July 28, by the Telegram channel "Military Observer" with reference to the data of the Flightradar 24 portal.

The construction of the first "Doomsday aircraft" of a new type has begun in Voronezh. The car is created on the basis of the Il-96-400M. In the foreseeable future, such aircraft will replace the Il-80 air command posts.

According to the chief designer of PJSC "Il" Sergey Ganin, the IL-112B became the first Russian military transport aircraft of this class, equipped with a tail ramp

Tests of the latest Russian military transport aircraft Il-112B are on schedule. This was announced to TASS by the chief designer of PJSC Il (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of the Rostec State Corporation) Sergey Ganin.

Servicemen of the Russian peacekeeping unit of the Central Military District in preparation for joint exercises with colleagues from Uzbekistan, which are to be held in August at the Termez training ground, overcame water obstacles on an armored personnel carrier BTR-82A.

As noted by Sergey Ganin, the test program is currently underway, the aircraft confirms the design characteristics laid down in the design of the machine

The newest Il-112B military transport aircraft will be able to update the fleet of Russian light military transport aircraft, which is dominated by An-26 aircraft. This was told to TASS by the chief designer of PJSC Il (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of the Rostec State Corporation) Sergey Ganin.

The negotiations between Ankara and Kiev on the supply of weapons to Ukraine should not affect Turkey's relations with Russia. This was stated on July 27 by professor of the Turkish University of Maltepe Hassan Unal.

The Nigerian Air Force has received the first six A-29 Super Tucano light combat aircraft four years after the US administration approved their delivery to the West African state.

The Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec) will deliver 190 military and civilian vehicles to both Russian and foreign customers in 2021, which is 20 more helicopters than last year.

Lightning seriously damaged two American F-35B Lightning II fighters.

The incident occurred on July 13, but official information about it appeared recently on the website of the US Marine Corps.

An Israeli AH-64 Apache combat helicopter made an emergency landing in the West Bank of the Jordan River.

According to a number of sources, during the flight, all control systems of the Israeli combat vehicle suddenly failed.

In the district of La Jolla (Arequipa Department, Peru), next to the air base of the Peruvian Air Force, the official opening of the Cemae La Joya helicopter repair service center took place.

Russia has developed a new radar system-a simulator of false targets, which is intended for use as beacons in air navigation and hidden identification of "friend-foe". The model was first presented at the MAKS-2021 air show.