Aviation news

The US Navy has abandoned plans to equip F/A-18E/F Super Hornet carrier-based aircraft with conformal fuel tanks. Boeing does not plan to supply the military with upgraded F/A-18E/F Block III aircraft with conformal fuel tanks (CFT), The Drive reports.

The Spanish Air Force Command expects to receive the first new PC-21 training aircraft (national designation E.27) produced by Pilatus in mid-September 2021.

Sergey Chebykin, Deputy Chief Designer of the Rostvertol Helicopter Plant, told about the upgraded Mi-35P attack helicopter on Friday, August 27.

The BT-3F armored personnel carrier of the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding was originally intended for arming Marine corps units. It was demonstrated for the first time at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army" in 2016. 5 years later, it appeared in the version for the Arctic, having received a number of fundamentally new improvements.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu highly appreciated the resumption of production of Tu-160 strategic bombers at the Kazan Aviation Plant (KAZ). He visited this place during his visit to the capital of Tatarstan.

The Americans are expanding their capabilities to defeat enemy radars and communication centers. August 26, portal janes.com He reported that the US Navy has ordered the production of two installation batches of AGM-88G missiles.

Over the past month, six accidents have occurred with Russian aircraft, the Military Observer channel calculated in Telegram.

The helicopter is equipped with additional equipment that expands the functionality

The Kazan Helicopter Plant (KVZ) of the Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec) has completed development work on the modernization of the Mi-8MTV-5M helicopter, the design documentation has been approved for serial production. This was reported on Friday in the press service of the Russian Helicopters holding company.

The Russian military during the exercises for the first time in the world landed a fully equipped military hospital from airplanes, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

The Su-24 tactical front-line bomber that crashed in the Perm Region is a complex, but time-tested machine. Vadim Lukashevich, an aviation expert, a former designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, told about this in an interview with Radiotochka NSN.

A member of the US House of Representatives, a former US Navy reservist, Jim Banks, said that the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) seized American military equipment worth $ 85 billion. His words are quoted by The Independent.

Aeroballistic missiles of the Russian hypersonic complex " Dagger "will be launched in a new way, Izvestia reports, referring to the corresponding contract of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Jumps with oversized weapons at landing speeds of 350 km / h are not performed in any army in the world The

Technodinamika holding of the Rostec State Corporation is developing a new universal parachute cargo harness that will allow the military to land immediately with light artillery weapons, such as mortars or anti-tank guided missiles. This was told to TASS by the chief designer of the holding for parachuting Alexey Kozin.

The planning aerial bomb "Drill" will be highly accurate, which will completely exclude its hitting peaceful objects. This was announced on the sidelines of the Army-2021 forum by the executive director of NPK Techmash (part of the Technodinamika holding of the Rostec State Corporation) Alexander Kochkin.

Specialists of the Military Space Academy named after Mozhaisk has developed a new algorithm for the operation of neural networks for drones, which allows identifying and tracking targets with high accuracy, the academy told reporters.

The fighters performed more than 30 combat training sorties for live firing

The crews of the fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and the Air Defense Forces of the Western Military District used guided missiles during exercises in Karelia. This was reported on Saturday by the press service of the Western Military District.

Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov summed up the results of the Army-2021 forum on Saturday and took part in awarding defense companies that distinguished themselves in fulfilling the state defense order.

The Russian military department will make a decision on the new appearance of the Airborne Troops at the end of this year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Tu-214ON aircraft, created specifically for performing observation flights under the Open Skies Treaty, will be redesigned. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, after visiting the Kazan Aviation Plant.

Units of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Federation have arrived in Grodno to form a joint training center for the Air Force (Air Force) and air defense forces (air defense) with Belarus.