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Due to the abnormal heat, the fire-dangerous situation in Yakutia has sharply worsened. On behalf of the President of Russia, the Ministry of Defense, in cooperation with local administrations, is actively fighting forest fires.

The National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation has published a video of the escort of the US Ares reconnaissance aircraft in the sky over the Black Sea.

A Russian Su-30 fighter jet drove a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft away from the Russian border over the Black Sea. On the air of Sputnik radio, the director of the MGIMO Center for Military and Political Studies, Alexey Podberezkin, called the Americans ' "super task" in this situation.

During the presentation flights for representatives of Colombia and Mexico, for the first time in South America, the ZALA VTOL unmanned vertical take-off and landing complex was demonstrated and put into operation.

The publication by the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) on Twitter of an image with a soaring chess knight may indicate the creation of a new aircraft by Russia, which will be shown at the International Aviation and Space Salon 2021 (MAKS-21), explains The Drive.

Sergei Shoigu discussed on Tuesday with his generals the production of Tu-160M strategic missile carriers and the testing of training aircraft for VKS universities. The Minister recalled that there is a plan for the supply of engines for the Tu-160M.

2GIS, the general navigation partner of the International Aviation and Space Salon, has prepared a detailed map of the MAKS-2021 Air Show. The map is already available in the 2GIS mobile application and on the website 2gis.ru.

The US aviation regulator has discovered a new problem with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. It is reported that the production defect was found in the machines that were not put into operation. During a system-wide inspection, a defect in the nose was revealed, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The issue of edits in already flying Boeing 787s is being considered. It is unknown whether the planes will be sent for revision. Representatives of the Boeing company have so far refused to give any comments.

The X-56B unmanned aerial vehicle, which is able to suppress flutter, crashed during tests. According to the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, it was damaged in flight as a result of an anomaly, but no details were reported. No one was injured in the accident, but the drone was destroyed.

The aging Russian turboprop strategic bomber-missile carrier Tu-95MS has defensive weapons from the Cold War, the American edition of The Drive is surprised, commenting on one of the recent videos of the Russian Defense Ministry.

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The crews of aircraft and helicopters of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) flew to St. Petersburg to participate in the Main Naval Parade, more than 10 units of aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet will be involved, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Monday.

During flight tests held at the Flight Training and Testing Center in the Chorlu district in the Tekirdag province in northwestern Turkey, the Akinci reconnaissance and strike UAV set a new national record, the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate Ismail Demir said.

Baykar Technologies Corporation has published a video of a long-range test flight of the Acinci drone with a combat load. The drone spent more than 13 hours in the air with a mass-dimensional mock-up of a 1.3-ton NEB penetrating bomb suspended under the fuselage.

The possible use by Russia and China of drones and weapons systems based on artificial intelligence is of concern to the Pentagon. Columnist Chris Osborne writes about this in his article for The National Interest.

Eight American multi-purpose F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters have arrived at the Graf-Ignatievo air Base in Bulgaria, the US Air Force Command in Europe announced on Monday.

The American company Saildrone has announced plans for an "attack on a hurricane" – a flotilla of marine drones will be sent to meet a dangerous weather phenomenon to study it in extremely close conditions. Most likely, these will be machines from the Saildrone Surveyor series, which recently performed their first mission in an exemplary manner. A sea-going sailing vessel without a crew made the journey from San Francisco to Hawaii and made a map of the seabed on the way.

More than a decade ago, the Chinese military tested an underwater drone capable of independently finding and attacking submarines. According to the South China Morning Post newspaper, now the details of the tests have been partially declassified. They were published by Professor Liang Golong and his colleagues from Harbin Engineering University in the journal of the educational institution.

The United States has tested the warhead of the AGM-183A ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) hypersonic complex. Earlier tests of the system failed.

During the week, Russian radar stations recorded 51 aircraft of foreign states that conducted reconnaissance near the borders of Russia, the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reported on Friday, July 9.

The Hunter UAV continues testing, it will have a large combat radius, Vladimir Artyakov, first Deputy General Director of Rostec, said on Friday.