Aviation news

The ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet on Thursday repelled a massive air attack as part of a bilateral tactical exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's Arctic borders from threats from sea directions. They hit eight cruise missiles.

SpaceX plans to provide Wi-Fi during flights in airplanes. The company is negotiating with several air carriers, the Izvestia TV channel reports. For its project, SpaceX will use Starlink satellites. The network of devices will provide high-speed Internet around the world. The satellites will be connected using a laser communication line — they will not depend on ground stations. Since 2018, SpaceX has launched about 1.8 thousand Starlink vehicles — there will be 12 thousand of them in total.

Russian warships will be able to enter the Congo, and planes will be able to land on the territory of this country. This provides for an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation.

The Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" has successfully completed its seventh flight on Mars, which was the first after a serious change in the navigation system. The drone successfully flew to a new work site, covering a distance of 106 meters, according to NASA's Twitter account.

The Ukrainian complex of protection of military transport aircraft of the An-26 type from guided missiles with infrared homing systems has passed state tests. According to Defense Express, it includes combined devices for the release of false thermal targets and an optoelectronic suppression station.

The air group of the Baltic Fleet is planned to be strengthened with the latest super-maneuverable Su-30SM fighters. "Drying" will be able not only to fight in the sky, but also, if necessary, to hit sea and land targets. Strengthening the Western Military District this year has been declared a priority task against the backdrop of NATO's activation in the region and the bloc's large-scale Baltops exercises.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, when creating a promising bomber, special emphasis is placed on protecting the aircraft from the enemy's air defense and missile defense with the help of electronic warfare.

The research and production enterprise (NPP) of the defense industry "Radar MMS" will create a fully electric helicopter-type UAV and a tiltrotor by 2022. This was announced by the company's executive director Ivan Antsev in an interview with TASS.

The Myanmar military delegation came to Russia to get acquainted with the production of the Pantsir air defense systems, an informed source told Interfax.

Multifunctional Su-34 fighter-bombers of the mixed Aviation Division of the Central Military District will use air-to-air missiles for the first time.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, combat missile launches will take place as part of a tactical flight exercise in the Astrakhan region.

According to an informed source in the military-industrial complex, the new Russian stealth bomber will be reliably protected from all types of weapons. The aircraft's armament will be placed inside the fuselage.

In the past, Russian aircraft of old types with inefficient navigation systems sometimes accidentally "hooked" the territory of the airspace of European countries, which caused an angry reaction from neighboring states and accusations of wanting to occupy the region, writes Izvestia columnist Anton Lavrov.

The Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has received approval from the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) for the installation of 24 passenger seats in the Mi-171A2 cabin.

The Western military District (ZVO) will be reinforced with hypersonic missile systems "Dagger", according to "Izvestia", citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

In addition, several girls are preparing for service in the assault aviation, said Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov

The first fighter pilots who will control modern combat aircraft will appear in the near future in the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday by the State Secretary, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov.

At the Polish aviation training ground Nadarzyce, the pilot of a MiG-29 fighter from a 30-mm gun fired at another MiG-29, with which he was flying in a pair. The incident occurred on May 14 during an exercise.

The specialists of the search and rescue support of the Northern Fleet returned to the main base of the Northern Fleet - the city of Severomorsk after the Russian-Norwegian rescue exercise "Barents-2021".

It took place in the Barents Sea. Representatives of the two countries practiced joint actions there to search for and evacuate conditionally in distress at sea, deliver them to rescue ships and provide medical assistance.

Zaporozhye Machine-building Design Bureau "Progress" named after Ivchenko will develop the first Ukrainian ramjet engine (RAMJET). In an interview with Security talks, the head of marketing at Progress, Sergey Dmitriev, said that the bureau has calculations for achieving hypersonic speed-more than six Mach, but first it will build a reduced model of the ramjet to work out its interaction with the input device of the aircraft.

It is pointless to compare the power of the Armed Forces of Russia and Ukraine, since they are "completely different leagues". On Friday, June 4, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

On Friday, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported about an American air reconnaissance aircraft that was barraging near the border of the Russian Federation in the sky over the Barents Sea. The alien plane was detected by our air control systems.