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United Engine Corporation will begin bench testing of the VK-1600V demonstrator engine in the second half of the year

The United Engine Corporation (UEC) of Rostec will present the VK-1600V demonstrator engine for the Ka-62 helicopter in July at the MAKS-2021 International Aerospace Salon. This was announced by TASS on Thursday at the HeliRussia 2021 exhibition by the general designer of UEC-Klimov (part of UEC) Vsevolod Eliseev.

In 2021, the second batch of the latest Mi-28NM Night Hunter attack helicopters will be delivered to the Aerospace Forces.

In Kazakhstan, an assembly line of small-size reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles "Skylark-1-LEX" developed by the Israeli Elbit Systems was opened at the enterprise of the Kazakhstan Aviation Industry company.

The Mi-8AMT and Mi-8MTV-1 transport helicopters will receive new ballistic protection, Igor Kiyamov, Managing Director of the Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant (NARZ, part of the Russian Helicopters holding and will carry out these works), said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The United Engine Corporation has started mass production of the VK-2500P helicopter engine, which is designed for the latest Mi-28NM attack helicopter and can be used on any type of Mi and Ka military helicopters.

The Polish military explained why the Boeing Air Force gave an alarm signal

The pilot of the Polish Air Force plane with the military command on board broadcast the signal 7500, meaning the capture of the plane. After that, the plane stopped communicating and headed towards the Atlantic Ocean. The board is not displayed on radars. According to the Polish military, the hijacking is part of the exercise.

In the press, the United States became interested in the "strange hangar" located on the Chinese base, and are trying to unravel its purpose. Satellite images show that it, along with an auxiliary object, is located at the People's Liberation Army Air Force bomber base 30 miles from the capital of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, according to Military Review.

Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) will promote Russian military drones for export only after they are adopted by the Russian army, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, said.

The Soviet (Russian) supersonic high-altitude long-range fighter-interceptor MiG-31BM in a training battle hit the aircraft of a simulated enemy that penetrated the country's airspace to collect intelligence. The corresponding video on YouTube showed the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Ministry of Defense will deploy a squadron of Su-34 fighter-bombers at the airfields of the Franz Josef Land and Novosibirsk Islands archipelagos. Special infrastructure is already being built for the base, sources in the department told Izvestia.

The survival kits of Russian military pilots are planned to include small arms for the first time - the PPK-20 submachine gun and the Lebedev compact pistol, these samples were selected by military pilots during military-technical experiments conducted at the beginning of the year, two sources in the aircraft industry told RIA Novosti.

Specialists of the corporation cooperate on the development of a hybrid engine with specialists of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building, the United Engine Corporation reported.

The US State Department has issued the necessary documents and licenses to allow the supply of six TAI-produced T129 ATTACK attack helicopters equipped with American LHTEC T800-4A turboshaft engines to the Philippines.

The first IL-76MD-90A heavy transport aircraft, assembled at the new assembly line at Aviastar-SP JSC (part of the UAC Transport Aviation Division within Rostec Group), was transferred to the aircraft factory's flight test station for ground and flight tests.

Rosoboronexport will promote an upgraded version of the Ka-52 helicopter to the international market, said the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev.

A military plane of the Lida Yak-130 assault air Base crashed in the Belarusian city of Baranovichi, BelTA reported on Wednesday, May 19.

It took four years for the FCAS partner countries to agree on the construction of the first prototype. Yesterday, May 18, portal defensenews.com he reported that France, Spain and Germany have agreed on the transition of the development of a new generation fighter to levels 1B and 2.

In the Kaliningrad Region, training of naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet has begun, in which three home-based airfields are involved at once.

The flight of unmanned aircraft of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in South Ossetia during the winter training period amounted to more than 3 thousand hours.

Foreign customers are showing high interest in the export version of the new Russian Mi-28NM attack helicopter, said Denis Manturov, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.