Aviation news

On October 18, Boeing Corporation announced the delivery to the Indian Navy of the 11th aircraft of the base patrol aircraft BPA P-8I "Neptune" (the Indian version of the American P-8A "Poseidon").

The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, announced negotiations with Moscow on the purchase of Russian fighter jets and helicopters, RIA Novosti reports.

According to Jane's Defense Weekly, the Indian Air Force's modernization program of 51 Mirage-2000N multirole fighters to the Mirage-2000-5 standard is almost three years behind the originally agreed schedule.

A Chinese-made F-7 fighter belonging to the Namibian Defense Forces was seriously damaged at the end of last week as a result of a descent from the runway of the airport located near the city of Ondangwa in the north of the country.

An exercise was held at the Opuk training ground in Crimea, where units of the Black Sea Fleet worked out the protection of the coast from enemy landing.

If we do not take into account the geography of these maneuvers, then "ours" and "not ours" were not there, in general. Everyone was their own. It's just that according to the scenario, some participants got the role of the defenders, and others - the attackers. Moreover, during the exercise, both of them changed places.

Su-30SM and Su-24M aircraft have practiced missile strikes and bombing exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported on Tuesday.

About 8 thousand people take part in the exercises

Motorized skirmishes of the Southern Military District destroyed groups of conditional gangs during a large-scale exercise of the district's troops, the press service of the Southern Military District reported. The event was held at the Opuk training ground in the Crimea.

The joint exercises of the Russian Navy and the Naval Forces of the People's Republic of China "Maritime Cooperation-2021" have ended in the Sea of Japan, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

As part of a large-scale command and staff exercise (KShU), the crews of about 20 Mi-8AMTSh helicopters of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Southern Military District (SE) ensured the landing of motorized rifle units of the coastal defense unit of the Black Sea Fleet during the practical actions of troops at the Opuk training ground in the Crimea.

The Corporation hopes for an order from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Checkmate light single-engine fighter of the fifth generation is planned to be demonstrated to potential customers at exhibitions abroad, said the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar.

There is no talk of merging all aviation design bureaus

The design center, which unites all aircraft design bureaus, should be built in three to four years on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, said the head of the UAC Yuri Slyusar.

The construction of prototypes of military transport aircraft IL-112B and passenger IL-114 does not stop, despite the investigation of the crash of Il-112B that occurred in August, said the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar.

Turkey may purchase Russian Su-35 and Su-57 fighters if the US freezes the sale of F-16s after the F-35. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the Department of Defense Industry of Turkey Ismail Demir.

According to the Philippine news agency PNA, on October 13, the acceptance ceremony of the next batch of multi-purpose S-70i Black Hawk helicopters took place at the Clark Air Force Base in Pampanga.

Turkey can buy Russian Su-35 and Su-57 fighters instead of American F-16s. This was stated by the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Department Ismail Demir. His statement is reported by RIA Novosti.

Reuters reported, citing four informed sources, that Turkey is expanding the export of armed UAVs after their successful use in international conflicts, having concluded new agreements with Morocco and Ethiopia.

The Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 has an impressive strike potential. This conclusion was reached in the publication Military Watch Magazine.

The fifth-generation Russian fighter is capable of destroying enemy ships alone.

The wide range of weapons used by Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters forced the American edition of The Military Watch to recognize the lethality of this combat vehicle not only for aerial purposes, but also for ships.

The introduction of self-driving cars will radically revise the economy of transportation and reduce the cost of travel. This was stated by Tatiana Mikheeva, Head of the Research Department of Integrated Transport Development of JSC NIIAT, in an interview with Vestnik GLONASS magazine. 

Su-57 fighters will start entering the Russian Armed Forces by the end of this year, Rostec reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Yuri Knutov commented on this news.