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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reports on the continuation of the Azerbaijani-Turkish tactical flight exercises "Falcon TurAz-2021", taking place in the Turkish Konya.

Forbes magazine writes about a new Russian robot. The device made an autonomous hundred-kilometer march. And "Marker" is also a platform on which technologies and systems are tested. Then the Russian military will install them on existing drones. The author admires the speed with which Russian developments are turning into real weapons.

On September 3, the US Department of Defense announced the signing of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command with Lockheed Martin Corp. an additional contract for MH-60R helicopters for the Indian Navy.

The command of the Colombian Air Force has officially announced its intention to adopt 24 T-6C Texan-2 turboprop training aircraft of the American company Textron Aviation.

Rosoboronexport announced an increase in the order portfolio worth more than 3 billion euros. "As a result of negotiations with foreign partners, I have signed more than 30 contract documents worth more than 3 billion euros," the company's press service said on Tuesday.

Analysts of the US Air Force are conducting a study of the tactical aviation fleet as the budget for 2023 is being prepared. Their report includes a tactical aircraft, the development of which may lead to a reduction in the order for multifunctional fighter-bombers F-35A. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the Defense News portal.

Da Fei and his colleagues from the People's Liberation Army Air Force of China have proposed a way to land a hypersonic UAV, writes the South China Morning Post. To quickly calculate the trajectory of its descent, it is necessary not to increase the power of the on-board computer, but to give it the opportunity to choose between several possible scenarios.

Deliveries of the promising NMESIS anti-ship missile system to the US troops will begin at the end of 2023, according to Naval News. The complex is an unmanned version of the JLTV armored vehicle, armed with NSM anti-ship missiles.

The signing of an agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which took place in August during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", indicates the readiness of Riyadh to diversify its relations in the defense sphere and go beyond the long-standing focus on Washington, the American edition of Breaking Defense writes.

Since this academic year, Moscow Aviation University (MAI) has started training students in the areas of aircraft and helicopter construction, as well as missile design, according to the programs of the network model of training, said Dmitry Kozorez, Vice - rector for Academic Affairs of MAI.

On September 2, the Spanish Air Force announced on its Twitter page that the transfer of the 11th A-400M military transport aviation aircraft to the 31st Transport Wing took place at the Airbus Defense and Space enterprise in Seville.

The small combat radius of the F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters sharply reduced the effectiveness of American aircraft carriers. This was acceptable after the end of the cold War, but it is a wake-up call now, against the background of the growing capabilities of Russia and China, writes MilitaryWatch.

Chinese aviation continues to "probe" the Taiwanese air defense. On September 5, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan reported a massive violation of the Taiwanese air borders by Chinese Air Force aircraft. Chinese aviation flights were recorded in the control zone of Taiwan's air defense systems located on the Pratas Islands

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

A video of the flight of a radio-controlled model of a promising Russian Su-75 Checkmate bomber appeared on the Network.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin are due to submit preliminary designs for a US-Australian hypersonic rocket with an air-jet engine in a year, according to a Pentagon report. The development of the munition is carried out within the framework of the SCIFiRE (Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment) project.

As the resource reported Scramble.nl On September 1, 2021, the first two BAE Systems Hawk Mk 167 combat training aircraft received by the Qatar Air Force entered the Joint British-Qatari Training Squadron (Joint Qatar Emiri Air Force-RAF Hawk Training Squadron) at the British Leeming Air Base, becoming the first of nine aircraft of this type ordered for delivery to this squadron.

In recent years, Ukraine has started producing its own planes and helicopters again, President Vladimir Zelensky said during his speech at Stanford University. The broadcast was conducted on the Facebook page of the office of the Ukrainian leader.

The Russian Yak-40 passenger aircraft, previously presented at the MAKS-2021 aviation exhibition in an electric version, may also receive a hydrogen engine in the future. This was stated on Friday, September 3, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov.

The general director of the Rostec state Corporation, Sergey Chemezov, reported that the fighter is in demand on the world arms market

Applications for the purchase of the Russian Checkmate light tactical fighter from foreign countries have not yet been received, Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told reporters on Friday on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (WEF).