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The Drive: the military aviation of Ukraine can hardly compare with the Russian

In a hypothetical air battle with each other, Ukraine and Russia can use many identical aircraft models, but in completely different quantities. A comparison of the military aviation of the two countries was carried out by the American edition of The Drive.

The author's Program of Alexander Rogatkin published on VGTRK on its YouTube channel posted footage of the rescue of Konstantin Murakhtin, the navigator of a Russian Su-24M bomber shot down by a Turkish fighter on November 24, 2015 in Syria.

19FortyFive: the F-35 fighter will take a dominant position in world combat aviation

The fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter of Lockheed Martin (USA) has survived in the fight against other Western competitors and will occupy a dominant position in the world of combat aviation in the future, 19FortyFive says.

In 2021, long-range aviation crews took part in the joint strategic exercise "West-2021" and Russian-Uzbek maneuvers

The combat training plan for 2021 has been fully implemented by representatives of long-range aviation. This was reported to journalists by the Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday.

A series of exercises with the participation of large amphibious ships of the Pacific Fleet took place in the Sea of Okhotsk. "Admiral Nevelskoy" and "Oslyabya" worked out anti-mine tasks.

Long-range aviation is a component of strategic nuclear forces, an integral part of the Aerospace Forces and serves to solve problems in all strategic directions.

According to the delivery plan for the main samples of the ViVT in 2021, a batch of five MiG-31BM high-altitude interceptor fighters was received by the fighter aviation regiment of the Central Military District stationed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Russia puts drone production on stream. On December 22, the press service of the Kronstadt company announced the opening in Dubno of the first specialized serial factory of large-sized unmanned aerial vehicles in the Russian Federation.

A video dedicated to the Day of Long-range Aviation appeared on the Web. You can observe in what difficult conditions pilots work - in any weather and at any time of the day.

Chief of Staff (Commander) The Indonesian Air Force, Air Marshal Fajar Prasetyo, confirmed plans to purchase Rafale fighters from the French company Dassault or F-15EX from the American Boeing.

In 2021, the formations and associations of the Air Defense Forces received more than 800 units of modern models of VIVT, including T-80BVM tanks, infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3. The composition of the TOPF included the Magadan DPL, Bastion coastal missile systems.

Tokyo and London will begin work on an engine demonstrator for a new generation of fighters. These machines can be adopted by about 2040.

The UK and Japan will create an engine for the next generation fighter

The United Kingdom and Japan, having signed a joint memorandum, united to create a new engine for combat aircraft, writes The Drive.

Russia and China have launched projects to jointly create weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "We are even developing separate high-tech types of weapons together today," the president said at a press conference on Thursday.

The Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building named after P.I. Baranov (CIAM, part of the Research Center "Institute named after N.E. Zhukovsky") has successfully completed the development stage of the technical design of the aviation rotary piston engine RPD-150T in the class of 150 hp.

The company's designers have created a unique anti-icing system that allows Orion unmanned aerial vehicles to be used in difficult weather conditions

The Kronstadt Company was awarded the "Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year" award for the creation of an anti-icing system for Orion unmanned aerial vehicles. This was reported on Monday in the company's press service.

Minister Manturov: it is planned to produce more than a thousand aircraft in Russia

It is planned to produce more than a thousand aircraft in Russia by 2030, the statement of the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the country Denis Manturov, made at the government hour in the State Duma, reports TASS.

The Drive: After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine owned the world's largest fleet of Tu-160 aircraft

After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine owned the world's largest fleet of Tu-160 strategic bombers, recalls the American edition of The Drive.

The crews of MiG-31 interceptor fighters conducted piloting training in difficult weather conditions in the sky over Kamchatka, the information support department of the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet told RG.

The test of the Russian Orion drone in air combat has become an important milestone in the development of Russia's air defense. The experiment showed that the drone is capable of hitting enemy drones, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed.