Aviation news

The Russian military conducted special exercises to practice the actions of logistics support units (MTO) in the course of repelling conditional aggression in the western and Arctic theaters of military operations.

The Baikal light aircraft, which is to be replaced by the An-2 cornhusker, is planned to be lifted into the air in October. This was announced on Thursday, August 26, at a meeting in Volgograd, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Oleg Bocharov.

The first heavy strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Altius" will enter service with the Russian army in the fall, on August 26, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko said during the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

The quiet sensation of the Army-2021 forum, which for some reason was not reflected in the media, is the adaptation of the 9M123 guided missile of the Chrysanthemum land complex to launches from the Mi - 28NM helicopter. Rossiyskaya Gazeta is the first to tell about this.

The Mi-17 transport helicopter of the Mexican Navy was damaged after a hard landing in the town of Agua Blanca in the state of Hidalgo.

On board were officials who were going to assess the consequences of a natural disaster in the state of Veracruz after the recent hurricane Grace there.

The airborne troops of Russia will conduct an experimental exercise with the release of a mobile hospital with equipment by parachute from aircraft.

The armed forces will receive a new Sirius UAV, which has become a development of Orion, in 2023. Among the distinctive features of the new product is a large payload.

An Italian Air Force plane involved in the evacuation of citizens from Afghanistan came under fire at the Kabul airport. This was announced on Thursday, August 26, according to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Lockheed Martin Corporation has announced the signing of a 5-year contract worth $ 328.8 million with the Indian Air Force Command, providing for comprehensive support for a fleet of 12 BTA C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft.

The American Navy is learning to sink enemy ships from a long distance. Yesterday, on August 25, the press service of the US Navy published a video with spectacular shots of the Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 21, during which the decommissioned frigate USS Ingraham of the Oliver Hazard Perry type was sunk.

The Ukrainian enterprise "Kharkiv Machine-Building Plant "FED" " will supply units for a heavy attack helicopter of the Turkish design ATAK-II. The corresponding contract was signed during the defense exhibition IDEF-2021, Defense Express reports.

The US Navy has approved the production of the long-range anti-radar missile AARGM-ER. The military plans to order the first two pilot batches in the next few months.

The American companies HyPoint and Piasecki Aircraft are going to create the first hydrogen helicopter, as well as develop and certify a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. It will give an energy density four times higher than existing lithium-ion batteries.

All UAVs will be controlled from a unified ground station, developed and manufactured by the Kronstadt company

The Kronshtadt company will supply the Ministry of Defense with five new unmanned complexes "Inokhodets-RU" and two sets of helicopter-type UAVs "Platforma", the company's press service reported on Tuesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry has approved the technical specification for the Lancet suicide drones, their state tests will begin at the end of the year, the Kalashnikov Group of companies told RIA Novosti at the Army-2021 forum.

At the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" held in Kubinka from August 22 to 28, 2021, JSC Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA, Yekaterinburg) for the first time presented a full-size mock-up of a promising training aircraft UTS-800 proposed by it to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, which should be equipped with a VK-800S turboprop engine developed under the auspices of UZGA.

Eleven new simulators of the Diamond DA-42T combat training aircraft will be delivered to the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots until 2025.

A spectacular video of the destruction of the US Navy frigate was published online.

The US Navy has released a video of the recent SINKEX exercises off the coast of Hawaii. As The Drive portal explains, they were aimed at demonstrating various capabilities of a long-range naval strike.

State tests of Lancet barrage ammunition, nicknamed "kamikaze drones", will begin at the end of 2021. This was announced at the Army-2021 forum by a representative of the Kalashnikov Group of companies.

The newest missile "Product 305E" for combat helicopters began to be mass-produced. The missile, depending on the requirements and tasks, can be equipped with different combat units. It is able to destroy all targets on the battlefield.