Aviation news

In the coming 2021, the flight crew of the naval aviation of the Navy will begin training at the latest training and training complex with artificial intelligence.

The US State Department has approved the potential delivery to Egypt under the Foreign Military Sales program of advanced Sniper-ATP aerial target designation containers and related equipment.

Business Insider: "Zircon" is a threat to US aircraft carriers]

American aircraft carriers still rule the seas, but Russia and China plan to change that. The development of hypersonic weapons technologies makes aircraft carriers vulnerable, but, according to the expert, it is still too early to write them off.

Cybersecurity issues of highly automated transport systems are among the most relevant and poorly developed at the moment. Experiments show that any drone can be "hacked" today, reported at last year's X Director of the Department of Radio-Electronic Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak.

The promising Chinese strike unmanned aerial vehicle WJ-700, equipped with a turbojet engine, made its first flight. According to Flightglobal, the first flight of the device, first presented in 2018, was successful.

Israeli warplanes and unmanned aerial vehicles committed unprecedented violations of Lebanese airspace on January 10. Jewish state combat aircraft were spotted over Beirut and its suburbs, causing panic among residents of the Arab republic, still not recovered from the devastating explosion on August 4, 2020 in the port of the Lebanese capital, according to local news portal Naharnet.

According to Indian media, the Indian Defense Ministry intends to sign a contract with an estimated cost of $ 2.5 billion for the supply of medium-sized VTA aircraft to replace the outdated Avro-748 in service with the country's Air Force.

The US Department of Defense decided to postpone the approval of serial production of the F-35 "Lightning-2" indefinitely, because officials responsible for the program can not say exactly when the fighter will be ready for combat tests, which have been repeatedly postponed since 2017.

France intends to compete for the "pie" of the Indian defense budget. January 10, portal defencenews.in He said that during a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President's diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonnet, a proposal was made to localize production of Rafale fighters and Panther helicopters in India.

Media: China is ready to abandon Russian aircraft engines]

China refuses to use Russian AL-31F engines on J-20 stealth fighters, preferring its own developments, the media write. Beijing really intends to go for "import substitution" in the creation of fighters, but so far this is technically impossible, experts say. However, the solution to this problem is only a matter of time.

Naval aviation is preparing to adopt hypersonic missiles

The Russian Navy is preparing to adopt the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system. In particular, it will be received by the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet. The new weapon is able to hit the target with high accuracy in a matter of minutes, and no country in the world has reliable protection against it. What advantages will the "Dagger" give to the Navy, the military historian Dmitry Boltenkov understood.

It is reported that on December 2, 2020, the governments of France and the United States concluded an intergovernmental agreement in the form of an exchange of Letters of Offer and Acceptance - LOA on the supply by the United States to France through the American program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of three carrier-based long-range radar detection and control aircraft Northtrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye.

The Eastern Military District received a batch of Mi-8mtpr-1 helicopters, which are designed to produce radio-electronic interference, the press service of the district reported.

In the next four years, the army will receive more than 400 new and upgraded aircraft and helicopters

In 2020, several multibillion-dollar contracts for the serial production of combat aircraft and helicopters were completed. But the state's financial difficulties related to the pandemic have made adjustments to the defense department's plans and forced it to postpone some contracts.

The construction of the first Chinese aircraft carrier Project 002 is being completed at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The ship has a displacement of 85 thousand tons, electromagnetic catapults and is comparable in capabilities to the latest American aircraft carriers of the Gerald Ford type.

The United Kingdom, Sweden and Italy have signed an agreement to develop a sixth-generation fighter under the Tempest program. The car may appear in the 2030s.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the opening of a new missile base in the Persian Gulf.

The UK Ministry of defence on 6 January 2021 announced the signing of a contract worth 550 million pounds from the British branch of the European missile Association MBDA to complete the development and batch production of new small-sized cruise missiles SPEAR3 for weapons of the fifth generation fighter Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II UK armed forces. The number of missiles ordered was not disclosed.

Why "Triumph" does not open fire on Israeli Air Force aircraft in Syria

The Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumph" only "watches" as the Israeli Air Force invades Syrian airspace with impunity and attacks Iranian positions, writes the Greek agency Pentapostagma. However, in reality, Moscow should not interfere in the Iranian-Israeli confrontation, no matter where it takes place. The situation in the region was dealt with by the military observer of "Gazeta.En " Mikhail Khodarenok.

As reported by the ATO web resource.EN, the Chinese regional jet passenger aircraft ARJ21 set a record for annual deliveries - in 2020, 24 aircraft of this type produced by COMAC Corporation (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) were transferred to airlines. This was reported by the Chinese news agency Xinhua.