Aviation news

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.

The Kronshtadt Company and JSC 558 Aviation Repair Plant (Belarus) signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of service and maintenance of unmanned aircraft complexes at the Army-2021 MVTF.

Testing of the meter that helps the aircraft fly the correct course is planned to be completed in 2023

A prototype of a domestic Doppler speed and drift angle meter for aircraft and drones was presented at the Army-2021 forum. Tests of the product that helps the aircraft fly the correct course are planned to be completed in 2023, the press service of the Rostec state Corporation Roselectronics holding told reporters on Wednesday.

At the moment, the drones are almost ready for testing

JSC "Kronstadt" is negotiating with the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the possibility of using helicopter-type drones in extinguishing forest fires. This was announced to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Sergey Bogatikov at the Army forum.

Without maintenance, the helicopter fleet will quickly become unusable

The fleet of more than a hundred Russian-made helicopters delivered to Afghanistan will quickly become unusable without service and repair, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

Rosoboronexport is discussing with foreign customers the issue of creating a two-seat version of the Su-57 fighter, the head of the company Alexander Mikheev said.

During the exercises of front-line aviation near Voronezh, an episode was worked out with the relocation of Su-34 bombers to an operational airfield equipped directly on the federal highway E-38 Kursk-Saratov.

Swift Tactical Systems, a division of Swift Engineering, recently performed more than two dozen flights of the UAV vertical takeoff and landing "Swift021" (Swift021) at Leach Field (Colorado) to collect data on its capabilities when used at high altitudes.