Aviation news

Turkish Aerospace Industries has created a kamikaze drone based on its Simsek training drone. According to Defense News, it will be possible to launch it from another drone.

The US military has tested the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft as a repeater for the fifth-generation F-22 and F-35 fighters. According to Lockheed Martin, during the tests, one F-22 Raptor and five F-35 Lightning II successfully exchanged data with each other using the gateway on the U-2 and transmitted them to the ground.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a government decree on submitting a proposal to the President of the Russian Federation to denounce the Open Skies Treaty (DON).

The Russian government has approved the denunciation of the Open Skies Treaty. Military expert Dmitry Litovkin on the air of Sputnik radio expressed his opinion about the possible consequences of Russia's withdrawal from the treaty.

The exercise of the US armed forces Northern Edge 2021 with the participation of 15 thousand troops and 240 different aircraft begins on Monday, May 3, in Alaska. This was announced by the press secretary of the US Department of Defense John Kirby.

According to the agency's interlocutor, the deadline was postponed to at least 2022

The deadline for the delivery of the new ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in Yeisk - the second Russian ground-based analog of the aircraft carrier-has been postponed to at least 2022 with the start of operation in 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Flights of Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft off the coast of Alaska are becoming a problem for American pilots who have to meet them in the air. At the same time, the United States recognizes that Russian aircraft can be in this buffer zone legally.

The airspace of the Baltic states will now be guarded by Italian Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighters. At the Emari air base near Tallinn, the German Air Force, which was engaged in this earlier, transferred authority to the Italian Air Force.

According to the results of the winter training period of the 2021 academic year, the servicemen of the Airborne Troops made more than 65 thousand parachute jumps.

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army Air Force pilots demonstrated how they can fly at extremely low altitudes.

The demonstration of such skills took place at one of the air bases under the control of the LNA. The MiG-23 passed at the highest possible speed just a couple of meters above the runway.

Two more US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers have arrived in Qatar, the total number of them there has reached six units, according to monitoring of Western aviation resources.

On April 30, 2021, four Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters of the Italian Air Force arrived at Emari Air Base in Estonia to participate on an eight-month rotation basis in the NATO mission to patrol the airspace of the Baltic States (Baltic Air Policing - VAR). This is the first deployment of fifth-generation fighter jets in the NATO Baltic mission, and the first relatively long-term deployment of the F-35A in close proximity to the Russian borders in the West.

Russian Su-30 fighters will undergo a deep modernization. Yesterday, on May 2, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Su-30SM fighters in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Navy will be upgraded to the Su-30SM2 version.

This year, the Airborne Forces will receive more than 13 thousand sets of modern landing equipment and parachute systems. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. These funds, among other things, will be used to equip two more paratrooper battalions with BMD-4M armored vehicles.

Two American reconnaissance planes flew for hours near Russia's Black Sea borders on Monday, according to monitoring by Western aviation resources that tracked them using transponder signals.

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

The governor of the Primorsky Territory Oleg Kozhemyako held a working meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as the head of the region himself announced on his Instagram page.

We continue the series of articles about the PLA UAVs. This article will present unmanned systems that are in service with the Air Force of the People's Liberation Army of China.

The two-seat version of the Chinese fifth-generation fighter J-20 will receive a powerful electronic warfare system (EW) and will be able to control guided unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as a result of which it will become a "real nightmare" for the enemy, the South China Morning Post newspaper writes, citing the Chinese magazine Ordnance Industry Science Technology.

The research and production enterprise "Polet" (part of the holding company "Roselektronika" "Rostec") is creating a new antenna for supersonic aircraft, which will significantly increase the range and reliability of aviation radio communications, the press service of the company told reporters on Friday.