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The Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has received approval from the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) for the installation of 24 passenger seats in the Mi-171A2 cabin.

The Western military District (ZVO) will be reinforced with hypersonic missile systems "Dagger", according to "Izvestia", citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

In addition, several girls are preparing for service in the assault aviation, said Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov

The first fighter pilots who will control modern combat aircraft will appear in the near future in the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday by the State Secretary, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov.

At the Polish aviation training ground Nadarzyce, the pilot of a MiG-29 fighter from a 30-mm gun fired at another MiG-29, with which he was flying in a pair. The incident occurred on May 14 during an exercise.

The specialists of the search and rescue support of the Northern Fleet returned to the main base of the Northern Fleet - the city of Severomorsk after the Russian-Norwegian rescue exercise "Barents-2021".

It took place in the Barents Sea. Representatives of the two countries practiced joint actions there to search for and evacuate conditionally in distress at sea, deliver them to rescue ships and provide medical assistance.

Zaporozhye Machine-building Design Bureau "Progress" named after Ivchenko will develop the first Ukrainian ramjet engine (RAMJET). In an interview with Security talks, the head of marketing at Progress, Sergey Dmitriev, said that the bureau has calculations for achieving hypersonic speed-more than six Mach, but first it will build a reduced model of the ramjet to work out its interaction with the input device of the aircraft.

It is pointless to compare the power of the Armed Forces of Russia and Ukraine, since they are "completely different leagues". On Friday, June 4, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

On Friday, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported about an American air reconnaissance aircraft that was barraging near the border of the Russian Federation in the sky over the Barents Sea. The alien plane was detected by our air control systems.

Russia is not going to scare anyone with new types of weapons, but is developing them, like everyone else, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, June 4, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The website of the UN Register of Conventional Arms contains data from the official report of the Russian Federation to the Register for 2020.

Former Polish army commander Waldemar Skrzypczak believes that Russia has weapons equipped with artificial intelligence systems. He said this in an interview with the Internet portal Onet.pl.

The engine power at the maximum take-off mode is 3100 hp, while the specific fuel consumption is at the level of the best world analogues

The United Engine Building Corporation (UEC) of Rostec plans to start mass production of the TV7-117ST engine for the latest IL-112B military transport aircraft in 2023. This was reported to TASS by the general designer of UEC-Klimov (part of the UEC of the state Corporation Rostec") Vsevolod Eliseev.

Tests of the planning bomb "Drill" can be completed in 2022. The readiness of the new ammunition TASS revealed the head of the holding "Technodinamika" Igor Nasenkov.

The UAC previously reported that the "Hunter" will hit air and ground targets in the framework of network-centric interaction with the fighter

The pilot of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter will simultaneously coordinate the actions of four new heavy strike unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) "Hunter". This was reported to TASS by a source in the aircraft industry.

Turkey cannot accept the proposals of other countries to abandon the use of the S-400 air defense system. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian Knights aerobatic team worked out refueling in the air. Along with it, other combat aircraft took part in the flights, in particular Su-30SM fighters and Su-24M front-line bombers.

Foreign customers are showing interest in the Russian reconnaissance and strike drone "Orion-E", said the head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation (FSVTS) Dmitry Shugaev.

The contract for the supply of 11 Su-35 fighters to Indonesia is still in force, Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation, told Interfax.

The Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation will significantly increase the intensity of flights during the summer training period, and it is necessary to determine the optimal load for young pilots, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call on Tuesday.

During the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021", which are due to take place in September this year, military aviation will be massively used. This was announced on Tuesday during a departmental conference call by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. According to him, according to the scenario of the exercise, a difficult air situation will be created.