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The development of a rapid deployment airfield at the university has been underway for three years

Bauman Moscow State Technical University expects to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for experimental design work (R & D) on the "Site" project, which involves the construction of ice airfields, by the end of the year. This was reported to TASS by the director of the Directorate of Arctic programs of the University Rodion Stepanov.

"Killer whale" is also actively used in the civil sphere

The latest search and sighting complex "Kasatka" is already being placed on the aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the executive director of the scientific and production enterprise "Radar mms" Ivan Antsev.

In the course of the exercise, the issues of interaction between the parties when performing tasks to defeat pre-set and suddenly emerging targets on the territory of the republic were worked out

TASS, September 7. A joint exercise of Syrian and Russian helicopter pilots took place in the desert in the Syrian Arab Republic. It was the first in the history of interaction between the two states, the chief of aviation of the Russian Federation's troops in Syria, Andrey Ermakov, told reporters.

The company's executive director Ivan Antsev stressed that the development of modern intelligent UAVs is an objective necessity

The research and Production enterprise "Radar MMS" is developing the technology of swarming unmanned aerial vehicles( UAVs) that can exchange information with each other and perform various tasks. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the company's executive director Ivan Antsev.

It is possible to train drones to act independently in a critical situation, said the executive director of the enterprise Ivan Antsev

The latest technologies allow us to train drones to make decisions independently and can find application in the event of a real military threat. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the executive director of the scientific and production enterprise "Radar mms" Ivan Antsev.

According to Ivan Antsev, Executive Director of Radar MMS, there are also opportunities on board for the introduction of new elements of decision-making support by the operator and navigator staff.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reports on the continuation of the Azerbaijani-Turkish tactical flight exercises "Falcon TurAz-2021", taking place in the Turkish Konya.

Forbes magazine writes about a new Russian robot. The device made an autonomous hundred-kilometer march. And "Marker" is also a platform on which technologies and systems are tested. Then the Russian military will install them on existing drones. The author admires the speed with which Russian developments are turning into real weapons.

On September 3, the US Department of Defense announced the signing of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command with Lockheed Martin Corp. an additional contract for MH-60R helicopters for the Indian Navy.

The command of the Colombian Air Force has officially announced its intention to adopt 24 T-6C Texan-2 turboprop training aircraft of the American company Textron Aviation.

Rosoboronexport announced an increase in the order portfolio worth more than 3 billion euros. "As a result of negotiations with foreign partners, I have signed more than 30 contract documents worth more than 3 billion euros," the company's press service said on Tuesday.

Analysts of the US Air Force are conducting a study of the tactical aviation fleet as the budget for 2023 is being prepared. Their report includes a tactical aircraft, the development of which may lead to a reduction in the order for multifunctional fighter-bombers F-35A. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the Defense News portal.

Da Fei and his colleagues from the People's Liberation Army Air Force of China have proposed a way to land a hypersonic UAV, writes the South China Morning Post. To quickly calculate the trajectory of its descent, it is necessary not to increase the power of the on-board computer, but to give it the opportunity to choose between several possible scenarios.

Deliveries of the promising NMESIS anti-ship missile system to the US troops will begin at the end of 2023, according to Naval News. The complex is an unmanned version of the JLTV armored vehicle, armed with NSM anti-ship missiles.

The signing of an agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which took place in August during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", indicates the readiness of Riyadh to diversify its relations in the defense sphere and go beyond the long-standing focus on Washington, the American edition of Breaking Defense writes.

Since this academic year, Moscow Aviation University (MAI) has started training students in the areas of aircraft and helicopter construction, as well as missile design, according to the programs of the network model of training, said Dmitry Kozorez, Vice - rector for Academic Affairs of MAI.

On September 2, the Spanish Air Force announced on its Twitter page that the transfer of the 11th A-400M military transport aviation aircraft to the 31st Transport Wing took place at the Airbus Defense and Space enterprise in Seville.

The small combat radius of the F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters sharply reduced the effectiveness of American aircraft carriers. This was acceptable after the end of the cold War, but it is a wake-up call now, against the background of the growing capabilities of Russia and China, writes MilitaryWatch.

Chinese aviation continues to "probe" the Taiwanese air defense. On September 5, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan reported a massive violation of the Taiwanese air borders by Chinese Air Force aircraft. Chinese aviation flights were recorded in the control zone of Taiwan's air defense systems located on the Pratas Islands

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".