Aviation news

An American-made Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force was shot down by militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray. It is reported that the winged vehicle was carrying personnel and ammunition.

No shots were fired at the destroyer Defender, reports Reuters with reference to the statements of the British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab.

The captain of the British destroyer Defender, Vincent Owen, confirmed to the Daily Mail that a Russian coast guard vessel opened warning fire during an incident in the Black Sea that occurred off the coast of Crimea.

Russia will raise the issue of the incident with the British destroyer in the Black Sea in the OSCE, Russian Permanent Representative Alexander Lukashevich said.

The Il-114-300 passenger aircraft will go into production in 2023, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, said. On the air of Sputnik radio, former pilot, flight safety specialist Alexander Romanov called the main features of the upgraded version of the airliner.

The TSOS of the FSB of Russia provided video materials to the official message of the Russian Defense Ministry about the violation of the border of the Russian Federation by the British Navy destroyer Defender.

- It goes clearly along the border. At 11.52. I crossed the border! - there is a report on the command bridge of the Coast Guard ship of the border service of the FSB of Russia.

The US Marine Corps plans to equip JLTV, LAV-25 armored vehicles and long-range robocats with barrage ammunition from the Israeli company uVision. According to uVision, armored vehicles and robocats will launch kamikaze drones from multi-cassette installations.

The US Navy has shown the first F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, painted in the colors of "Russia's best fighter," The Drive reports.

The exercises involve 10 thousand military personnel, 500 units of military equipment, 32 aircraft, 12 ships and vessels

The bilateral military exercise, which involves the forces of the Eastern Military District( VVO), the Pacific Fleet, began on the Kuril Islands (Iturup and Kunashir), on Sakhalin and in the waters of the Sea of Japan, the press service of the VVO reported on Wednesday.

Sniper pairs of special forces units of the Southern Military District for the first time began to train in shooting at drones and ground objects from the side of a helicopter barraging in the air. The maximum target range is two thousand meters.

For the first time since the Second World War, US Air Force aircraft flew a combat mission from a foreign aircraft carrier. This was reported by CNN on June 23.

A unit of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian military base of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in South Ossetia has received modern domestic Tachyon complexes.

As the press service of the Central Military District reported on June 22, 2021, by the end of this year, eight modernized Su-34M fighter-bombers of the "4++"generation will be put into service with the mixed aviation regiment of the Central Military District (CVO) in the Chelyabinsk Region.

Textron Aviation Defense is entering into a contract for the supply of T-6C Texan training aircraft for the Tunisian Air Force under the Foreign Military Sales program.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense published a video demonstrating the capabilities of an air-based combat laser system. The tests, according to the agency, were successful, and the drone was shot down.

The American-made Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by supporters of the Yemeni movement "Ansar Allah" (Houthis). The drone was used to perform reconnaissance missions over the province of Marib.

The widespread use of unmanned vehicles: flying, surface and underwater, is an important part of the modernization of the Russian Navy. Drones will rid the ships of some intelligence tools, providing in return more advanced and powerful tools for monitoring the situation, and will allow the fleet to successfully resist new threats - for example, hypersonic weapons.

The Civil Aviation Service of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (CAAV) has validated the Mi-171A2 helicopter Type Certificate.

The British destroyer Defender provoked the Russian military and border guards to a warning fire by entering the territorial sea of the Russian Federation near Cape Fiolent (Crimea), the former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, told Interfax.

British and American fighters of the shortened take-off and vertical landing of the fifth generation F-35B Lightning II, based on the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, can begin to be used to spy on Russia in Syria, writes The Drive.