Aviation news

Americans are looking for a "flying jeep". On September 23, Popular Mechanics magazine reported that within the framework of the HSVTOL program, the US Air Force selected 35 promising models for creating a flying transport of the future.

Australian fighters and ships will be armed with new missiles. September 23, portal navalpost.com He reported that the Australian government approved the purchase of Tomahawk, JASSM-ER and LRASM ammunition.

The command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) accused Russia that its reconnaissance planes flew into the zone reserved by Ukraine for conducting live firing. This became known on Friday, September 24.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tried to justify the new partnership of AUKUS with the United States and Great Britain, making a video address to the UN General Assembly.

The US Air Force has withdrawn 17 B-1B Lancer strategic bombers from combat due to wear and tear, the cost of repair and modernization, the global strike command reported.

One of the novelties of the international aviation and space salon Airshow China 2021 will be the CH-6 reconnaissance and strike UAV. In the photos shown, it can be viewed in detail for the first time.

As part of the multinational exercise "Rapid Trident - 2021", a joint landing of the amphibious assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), US military personnel and other units of the partner countries took place, the command of the Amphibious Assault Troops of the AFU reported on Facebook.

The strategic reconnaissance drone of the US Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk on Saturday conducted a multi-hour flight near the western borders of Russia and Belarus, it follows from the data of Western aviation resources.

Three Su-35S fighters escorted a strategic bomber B-52N of the US Air Force, which was approaching the borders of Russia in the Pacific Ocean, the National Defense Control Center reported.

In the Crimea, the pilots of the Northern Fleet's ship-based fighter aviation regiment on the Su-33 have begun the final stage of the flight training program at the ground-based engineering and technical aviation complex (NITKA), which simulates the flight deck of a heavy aircraft carrier.

Baykar Defense Company has introduced a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Bayraktar DIHA. The presentation of the vertical take-off and landing drone took place within the framework of the International Aviation, Space and Technology Festival Teknofest-2021, which is being held in Turkey. This is reported by the Habericerik publication.

In the Rostov region, servicemen of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division practiced the landing of a mass tactical landing by helicopter. A squadron of transport and combat Mi-8AMTSh "Terminator" and a pair of multi-purpose Mi-35M were involved in the exercises.

This was announced by Selchuk Bayraktar, Technical Director of Baykar Technologies, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the T3 Foundation, speaking at the International Summit of Take Off Initiatives organized as part of the third TEKNOFES Aviation, Space and Technology Festival in Istanbul.

A short video shows a model of an aircraft of an unknown type. Some observers believe that it is related to the NGAD program aimed at developing a sixth-generation fighter. Earlier it became known about the beginning of testing of its demonstrator.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia confirmed the death of the entire crew of the An-26 laboratory aircraft that crashed in the Khabarovsk Territory, TASS reports on Thursday, September 23.

The Australian Air Force Command has completed a complex of works on the modernization of the fleet of P-8A Poseidon base patrol aircraft.

During the second day of the Ukrainian strategic command and staff exercises "United Efforts-2021" at the Yegorlyk training ground in the Kherson region, the S - 300, Buk-M1, S-125 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems are involved.

At the Salyut production complex of the Rostec United Engine Corporation, Russian Aerospace Forces servicemen are being trained to restore the AI-222-25 engine for the Yak-130 combat training aircraft.

Transport planes are often converted into bombers, but the Americans went further. On September 22, the YouTube channel The War Zone published a video of tests of the Rapid Dragon system, with the help of which many non-combat aircraft can become missile carriers.

The Soviet strategic bomber-missile carrier Tu-160 made its first flight seven years later than the American B-1 Lancer aircraft. Therefore, there is a myth about Soviet engineers copying American ideas. Combat aviation specialist Dario Leone refuted this misconception. His comment was published by The National Interest magazine.