Aviation news

Baykar Technologies Corporation has published a video of a long-range test flight of the Acinci drone with a combat load. The drone spent more than 13 hours in the air with a mass-dimensional mock-up of a 1.3-ton NEB penetrating bomb suspended under the fuselage.

The possible use by Russia and China of drones and weapons systems based on artificial intelligence is of concern to the Pentagon. Columnist Chris Osborne writes about this in his article for The National Interest.

Eight American multi-purpose F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters have arrived at the Graf-Ignatievo air Base in Bulgaria, the US Air Force Command in Europe announced on Monday.

The American company Saildrone has announced plans for an "attack on a hurricane" – a flotilla of marine drones will be sent to meet a dangerous weather phenomenon to study it in extremely close conditions. Most likely, these will be machines from the Saildrone Surveyor series, which recently performed their first mission in an exemplary manner. A sea-going sailing vessel without a crew made the journey from San Francisco to Hawaii and made a map of the seabed on the way.

More than a decade ago, the Chinese military tested an underwater drone capable of independently finding and attacking submarines. According to the South China Morning Post newspaper, now the details of the tests have been partially declassified. They were published by Professor Liang Golong and his colleagues from Harbin Engineering University in the journal of the educational institution.

The United States has tested the warhead of the AGM-183A ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) hypersonic complex. Earlier tests of the system failed.

During the week, Russian radar stations recorded 51 aircraft of foreign states that conducted reconnaissance near the borders of Russia, the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reported on Friday, July 9.

The Hunter UAV continues testing, it will have a large combat radius, Vladimir Artyakov, first Deputy General Director of Rostec, said on Friday.

Working in the format of life cycle contracts is convenient for both the customer and the manufacturer, said Vladimir Artyakov, Deputy General Director of the state Corporation

Rostec State Corporation has provided a full life cycle of Mi-8AMTSh and Ka-52 helicopters. This was announced by Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

The new C-13B aircraft rocket, combining the capabilities of two previously developed products at once - C-13T and C-13OF, will be shown for the first time at the MAKS-2021 air show, Gleb Varenitsa, general director of the rocket manufacturer, the Novosibirsk Artificial Fiber Plant (NZIV), said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Two Tu-160 strategic bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew from the Saratov Region to the Anadyr airfield in Chukotka during the exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

According to the head of the technodinamika holding Igor Nasenkov, it is assumed that the vehicle in landing is the staff

The technodinamika holding of rostec state Corporation conducts experimental design work (OKR) Parachute within which to create a cargo parachute system for the landing of armored vehicles "Typhoon" and "Tiger". This was announced to journalists by the general director of the holding, Igor Nasenkov.

The head of the Technodinamika holding, Igor Nasenkov, clarified that a three-dome parachute system is being created for the Russian promising spacecraft, the area of one dome reaches 1,200 sq. m.

Calculations of anti-aircraft missile and gun systems "Pantsir-S1" in the Crimea conducted exercises to destroy drones that "attacked" the S-400 air defense systems, the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, captain of the second rank Alexey Rulev, told reporters on Friday.

The Australian Ministry of Defense announced the delivery of the first two of the four ordered CH-47F Chinook heavy transport helicopters to the country on board the BTA C-5M Gelaxi aircraft of the US Air Force.

According to Indian media, the Nigerian Ground Forces are considering the possibility of purchasing LCH (Light Combat Helicopter) light combat helicopters manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to equip the newly formed army Aviation corps.

A ceremony of the transfer of new weapons for the ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was held in Iran, at which a number of new models of weapons that recently went to the troops were lit up.

The Netherlands is completing a multi-year process of acquiring American drones. July 8, portal flightglobal.com he reported that the first MQ-9A Reaper drone for the Dutch Air Force was officially rolled out at the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems plant in Poway (California).

The concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET) of the Rostec state Corporation will present the universal air data module MVD-90-2 at MAKS-2021. The product is intended for conducting flight tests of experimental aircraft models. The use of the module during the first flight of the aircraft allows you to identify the slightest deviations from the reference values and make appropriate adjustments to the design of the test apparatus.

The Lithuanian authorities are trying to infect other countries with Russophobia and use staged tricks in the form of an imitation of an air alarm. This opinion was expressed on July 9 by Elena Panina, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Federation.