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The American company Otto Aviation announced the completion of the first stage of flight tests of the Celera 500L aircraft. It is assumed that it can be much more economical than "conventional" winged cars.

The UAE Special Operations Command at the Dubai Air Show showed a Black Hawk helicopter with electric motorcycles suspended on it. According to Electrek, now the special services are testing how good this transport combination is in intelligence missions.

Sergey Bogatikov, CEO of Kronstadt JSC, also noted that the concept of integrating drones into a single airspace approved by the government in October will accelerate the process of Orion's civil certification.

ROSC-1 is a unique system, the only one in the world, elements of artificial intelligence are embedded in it, said Vitaly Repin, adviser to the Deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region

Within the framework of Dubai Airshow 2021, Almaz Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region held negotiations with a number of countries in the Middle East region on the sale of a unique complex for providing ornithological protection and countering aircraft drones for ROSC-1 airports.

What is called a promising Russian light tactical aircraft (LTS), known as Checkmate and Su-75, actually looks like an average fighter. The dimensions of the aircraft being developed by Rostec were surprised in the American edition of The Drive.

On November 15, the French company Dassault Aviation announced the entry into force of a contract for the supply of 30 additional Rafale multipurpose fighters to the Egyptian Air Force.

The Russian company Kronstadt has begun work on the assembly of the first prototype of the Sirius heavy drone. This was announced by the general director of the company Sergey Bogatikov in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The relatively low price of the promising Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-75 may be the key to its export attractiveness. The first buyer may be the United Arab Emirates.

The MiG-25 interceptor fighter is famous for its ability to develop almost three times the speed of sound. Due to the tactical and technical characteristics of the Soviet aircraft for many years terrified the pilots of the United States and NATO countries.

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of advanced AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air guided missiles and related equipment to Saudi Arabia.

Judging by a number of hints and reservations, the promising Russian Su-75 fighter (Checkmate) is being created primarily for sale to the Middle East.

The head of the delegation on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, stressed that "we are talking about planned planned exercises"

Russia has conducted planned strategic aviation exercises in the skies over Belarus, which are not directed against third countries and are not related to the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border. This was stated on Wednesday by Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, to the participants of the OSCE Forum on Security Cooperation.

There are American reconnaissance aircraft operating near Belarus, which can be used to assess the situation in the areas bordering Poland, writes The Drive.

IBM has announced that it has developed a new Eagle chip for quantum computing, which, according to the company's management, will allow quantum systems to surpass classical computers in some tasks over the next two years.

The Japanese company Honda has tested the second prototype of an AWV unmanned work vehicle in New Mexico. It looks like a small truck without a top. AWV can carry up to 399 kilograms, travel up to 45 kilometers and work up to six hours on a single charge.

The carrier-based fighter F-35 of the British Air Force, which took off from the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, fell into the Mediterranean Sea as a result of the accident. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom. The pilot managed to eject.

For the first time, the Checkmate light tactical aircraft was presented at the MAKS-2021 Air Show

Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attended the presentation of the Russian fighter Checkmate at the Dubai Airshow 2021. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the Rostec state Corporation.

We are talking about drones purchased by foreign customers, said the company's CEO Sergey Bogatikov

Orion unmanned aerial vehicles purchased by foreign customers will be able to operate using satellite communications using foreign spacecraft. This was announced to TASS by Sergey Bogatikov, CEO of Kronstadt JSC, at the Dubai Airshow 2021 International Airshow, which opened in the United Arab Emirates on November 14.

The first tests of the Termit unmanned attack helicopter and launches of corrected aircraft missiles with a range of six kilometers have been conducted in Russia, Sergei Bogatikov, CEO of Kronstadt, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The system is designed for autonomous determination of the spatial position and altitude-speed parameters of the aircraft, the press service of the Concern Radioelectronic Technologies said.