Aviation news

The holding company "Russian Helicopters" of the Rostec State Corporation presented a line of the latest civil equipment at the Eastern Economic Forum.

Preparatory work on the Russian-Chinese wide-body long-haul aircraft CR929 has been completed, the production of the first copy has started. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the publication "Jiefang Zhibao".

At the educational marathon "New Knowledge", the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the management of the armed forces on the territory of Russia and abroad takes place in the NCSUO

Several dozen aircraft of the Russian military department are in the air every hour, their movements, as well as the situation in Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and other regions of the world are monitored by the National Defense Control Center (NCMS). This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The first copy of the CR929 wide-body aircraft is being assembled in China. In the basic configuration, it will be able to carry 280 passengers over a distance of up to 12 thousand kilometers.

The solemn ceremony of seeing off the Russian pilots took place at the Antalya airport

Representatives of the Antalya province administration thanked the pilots of the Russian Defense Ministry for their help in extinguishing forest fires in the country. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Orion-E drone has been improved. The "classmate" of the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 received satellite communication, which increased the radius of application of the device. This is reported by TASS with reference to the General Director of JSC "Kronstadt" Sergey Bogatikov.

The Ministry of Defense has asked the Moscow Arbitration Court to recover more than 4.2 billion rubles of penalties from the Tupolev aircraft construction company under the state contract dated March 31, 2016.

It became known about the cause of the crash of the Il-112B light transport aircraft in the Moscow region. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to specialists of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).

The promising Russian Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a domestic engine as an analogue of the German RED A03T V12, the general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after P. I. Baranov (part of the N.E. Zhukovsky Institute)told RIA Novosti in an interview Mikhail Gordin.

The Yak-18T aircraft, which is powered by an engine based on the Aurus car engine, will go on its first flight in late 2021 or early 2022. This was announced on Wednesday, September 1, by Mikhail Gordin, General Director of the Central Institute of Aviation Motor Engineering named after P. I. Baranov.

Tests of a hybrid power plant based on a gas turbine engine and a superconducting electric motor at the Yak-40LL flying laboratory will be completed in 2022.

The promising Yak-152 training aircraft can receive a Russian engine not as a replacement for the German RED A03T V12, but as its analogue, Mikhail Gordin, general director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after Pyotr Baranov, explained to RIA Novosti.

Russia will supply Belarus with dozens of planes, helicopters, air defense systems (air defense) and, possibly, S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs). This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on September 1.

The US Navy has lost one of its helicopters. According to the press service of the 3rd Fleet of the US Navy on August 31, a multi-purpose helicopter MH-60S Knighthawk with six servicemen on board crashed off the coast of California. The incident occurred at 16: 30 local time (at 2: 30 on September 1, Moscow time).

The Russian intelligence aviation is so weak that it is not able to "reciprocate" the flights of reconnaissance aircraft and drones of NATO countries along the Russian borders, according to the Polish publication Defence24.

The Kronstadt company has signed export contracts for the supply of attack drones to countries of the far and near abroad, deliveries will begin next year, the press service of the enterprise reported on Tuesday.

The Turkish Aviation Association and Ukrspetsexport Group of Companies signed an agreement on joint maintenance and repair of Mi-17 helicopters during the IDEF-2021 exhibition.

The United States analyzes photos and videos taken by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) at the Kabul airport. They show captured military aircraft, helicopters, cars and other trophies.

On August 27, 2021, during the visit of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S. K. Shoigu and the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R. N. Minnikhanov to the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S. P. Gorbunov (KAZ, a branch of PJSC Tupolev), the first sample of the modernized Tu-160M2 strategic bomber, which is under construction at the enterprise, was publicly demonstrated for the first time.

On September 1, 2021, the Airbus Group announced the conclusion of a contract for the supply of two A400M turboprop four-engine military transport aircraft to the armed forces of Kazakhstan. The first of them should be delivered in 2024.