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The United Aircraft Corporation of the Rostec State Corporation for the first time showed the S-70 Hunter drone equipped with a flat jet nozzle. The aviation complex has reduced radar visibility and will receive a new ground control center.

Russian aircraft manufacturers have shown for the first time a new version of the Hunter unmanned vehicle. Unlike the first option, it has a flat nozzle designed to reduce the visibility of the UAV.

The Romanian Ministry of Defense has sent a request to the country's parliament for the allocation of funds in the amount of 454 million euros for the purchase of 32 F-16 fighters from the Norwegian Air Force.

As already reported, last weekend Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visited a number of military facilities in the country, where he met with the command of the Armed Forces and the management of enterprises of the Serbian defense industry.

Military expert Murakhovsky called less visibility an advantage of the S-70 Hunter UAV

Viktor Murakhovsky, a military expert and member of the Expert Council of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, called the advantage of the newest S-70 Hunter attack drone equipped with a flat jet nozzle. The UAV is designed in such a way that it will be less noticeable in the radar and infrared ranges than previous versions of the aircraft, the expert said in a conversation with <url>.

The rollout of the first flight model of the newest Russian strike drone S-70 suggests that the aircraft manufacturers of the Russian Federation have achieved serious success in the Hunter program. This was announced on Tuesday, December 14, by the military observer of Izvestia, Alexey Ramm.

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense Krivoruchko said that the Hunter UAV is superior to foreign analogues

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko compared the S-70 Hunter strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with foreign analogues. He said that the Russian development surpasses the development of competitors. This is reported by Interfax.

Representatives of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) are trying to revive high-speed jet planes stored at Kabul airport for their newly created Air Force.

The Hunter UAV is a key development in the field of unmanned aviation for our aerospace forces. Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky told Izvestia about this on Tuesday, December 14.

During a working trip to Novosibirsk, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko checked the progress of the state defense order at the V.P. Chkalov Aviation Plant.

Chinese fighters will no longer need Russian aircraft engines. December 13, portal globaltimes.cn He reported that the Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Group Corporation announced a full-scale serial assembly of J-20 fighters after the start of deliveries of Chinese WS-10 engines.

Moscow. December 14th. INTERFAX-AVN - The Kronstadt Company announced on Tuesday that it is creating a ground control point for the Hunter heavy drone.

The Drive: F-35 Lightning II fighters may receive new engines as early as 2027

American fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters may receive an adaptive engine as early as 2027, The Drive reports.

Light helicopter and airplane-type vehicles will be launched using a pneumatic catapult

The newest marine platform is being developed for the Russian Navy, which will be designed to base tactical and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

Su-34 bombers and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft of the Central Military District (CVO) are practicing refueling in the air at an exercise in the Chelyabinsk region, the press service of the CVO reported on Monday.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the country's defense budget, which is planned for 2022 in the amount of over 1.1 billion rubles. In the future, it will be increased by another 500 million euros for the purchase of equipment and weapons, including combat aircraft.

Anastasia Solovyova, Chief designer of the VK-650V UEC-Klimov engine, said that the certification of this engine was also planned for 2023

Flight tests of the latest Russian VK-650V engine on the Ka-226T light multipurpose helicopter will begin in 2023 in accordance with joint plans with Russian Helicopters JSC. This was reported to journalists by the chief designer of the VK-650V engine "ODK-Klimov" (part of the United Engine Corporation Rostec) Anastasia Solovyova.

Norwegian F-16s have not yet been written off, but they are already selling out. December 12, portal defenseromania.ro He reported that the Romanian Defense Ministry had requested approval from Parliament for the purchase of F-16 fighters.

Flight tests of the Ka-226T light multipurpose helicopter with the Russian VK-650V gas turbine turboshaft engine are planned for 2023. In the same year, the newest engine must be certified.

The Russian company Zala Aero (part of the Kalashnikov Group of companies) has published a video of tests of Lancet barrage ammunition from a marine carrier.