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Production of the T-7A Red Hawk training aircraft was delayed for at least a year due to technical problems during testing. According to Airforce Magazine, the aircraft was found to be unstable during roll when flying at high angles of attack.

During the exercise Africa Lion 2021, held under the leadership of the United States in the countries of North and West Africa, simulated attacks on Russian anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) S-400 "Triumph", writes The Drive.

According to French media, on June 7, 2021, during the visit of the Minister of the Armed Forces of France Florence Parly to Indonesia, the military departments of the two countries signed an agreement of intent (Letter of Intent - LoI) regarding the purchase by Indonesia of 36 French Dassault Rafale fighters of new construction. At the same time, this agreement is not a firm contract, the conclusion of which is expected only by the end of 2022.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Sukhoi Design Bureau plan to develop a two-seat version of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter in the export version, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on Wednesday during a working trip to the Primorsky Territory.

Specialists of the TSNTU "Dynamics" of the holding "Technodinamika" of the State Corporation Rostec have installed technical training facilities of a new generation in the Syzran branch of the VUNC of the Air Force "Air Force Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin "(VUNC of the Air Force"VVA").

The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) will receive four Su-57 fighter jets this year. This was reported to journalists by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who oversees the military-industrial complex in the government of the Russian Federation.

The project of the MS-21-400 aircraft, capable of carrying up to 260 passengers, is expected to be launched in 2024-2025. This was announced on Wednesday, June 16, by Ravil Khakimov, General Director of Irkut Corporation.

The Ministry stressed that all flights of aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces were carried out and are carried out in strict accordance with the international rules for the use of airspace over neutral waters

Two Su-35 aircraft performed a planned flight over the Baltic Sea, without deviating from the approved route, the flights were carried out in strict accordance with international rules. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The machine can be used for training pilots, as well as for performing long flights over undirected terrain, the state corporation noted

Rostec confirmed plans to create a two-seat export modification of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter, noting that the Russian aircraft may become the first of its kind in the world.

IRZ has opened another testing ground for innovative communication equipment. The oDAS RADIUS system is installed in the Karakulinsky district of Udmurtia.

The American company XTI Aircraft plans to obtain a type certificate and start production of the TriFan 600 three-fan aircraft by the end of 2024. According to New Atlas, a full-scale prototype of the TriFan 600 will be built in 2022.

The Russian Pacific Fleet conducted large-scale exercises on the high seas. The event was attended by various types of troops, including naval aviation.

Intensive flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces and naval aviation near Alaska are ruining American combat aviation. To counter it, it is necessary to constantly maintain F-22 Raptor fighters in combat readiness and send them into the sky for a long time, which costs the US Air Force very expensive, the US military complained.

As reported by TSAMTO, on May 24, the Polish Ministry of Defense announced the signing of a contract for the purchase of four sets of Bayraktar TB2 MALE class attack UAVs of Turkish production for the country's Armed Forces.

Ukrainian developers have presented the concept of an attack drone that can, among other things, hit air targets. In the presentation video, the device hits the Orion UAV rocket.

Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers conducted a patrol over the Baltic Sea. This was reported on Tuesday, June 15, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Italian, Danish and Swedish fighter jets took to the air due to the eight-hour flight of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The test launch of the promising GBSD strategic ballistic missile will take place at the end of 2023. It is being developed to replace the aging Minuteman III. According to Airforce Magazine, GBSD will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Chinese television for the first time showed the automatic landing of cargo from the board of the Feihong 98 drone - a remote-controlled version of the Y-5B light multi-purpose aircraft, which, in turn, is a licensed copy of the Soviet An-2.

Specialists of the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet conducted a reconnaissance of the area from an altitude of more than four kilometers.

A unit of unmanned aerial vehicles was involved in the exercise: 80 soldiers of a separate reconnaissance battalion and 5 Orlan UAV complexes.