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Rosoboronexport has signed contracts worth over €1 billion within the framework of the MAKS-2021 air show. This was announced on July 22 by the head of the company, Alexander Mikheev.

Potential customers of the latest Checkmate tactical fighter have already managed to sit in its cockpit, Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev told reporters, summing up the results of the first days of the MAKS-2021 aerospace salon.

The Aviation Department of the National Police of Peru (DIRAVPOL) received two Mi-171Sh transport helicopters under a contract signed at the end of 2019 with the Belspetsvneshtechnika State Technical University (Republic of Belarus).

On July 20, the South Korean company Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI) announced the signing of a contract for the supply of additional T-50 training aircraft for the Indonesian Air Force.

The crews of Su-25SM attack aircraft of the joint Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan will be involved in the Russian-Uzbek exercise, which will be held from July 30 to August 10 in the Surkhandarya region of the republic, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

PJSC UAC and Shvabe Holding, members of the Rostec State Corporation, have signed an agreement for the development and supply of the KOEPS-75 round-the-clock optoelectronic sighting system for the Checkmate light tactical aircraft (LTS).

In the new images, you can see the flights of officially decommissioned F-117 strike aircraft in all its glory. Now the machines play the role of" aggressors", imitating enemy aircraft.

The aerobatic group "Strizhi" begins the transition to the latest MiG-35 fighters, the first aircraft will be delivered to it in 2021, the commander of the group, Colonel Sergei Osyaykin, told RIA Novosti.

The concern of East Kazakhstan Region Almaz-Antey presented at the MAKS-2021 air show an unmanned interceptor of small-sized drones "Wolf-18", which can independently detect UAVs and shoot them down.

At the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon held in Zhukovsky, JSC " Tactical Missile Armament Corporation "(KTRV) for the first time presented an upgraded version of its high-precision air-to-surface guided missile X-59MK, which received the designation X-59MKM. The rocket was developed by JSC "State Machine-Building Design Bureau "Raduga" named after A. Ya.Bereznyak, which is part of the KTRV.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and the Kazan Helicopter Plant signed a contract for the supply of nine helicopters. The agreement was signed today within the framework of the XV International Aviation and Space Salon "MAKS-2021".

A long-range heavy reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle of the NATO command RQ-4D Phoenix on Thursday flew near the western regions of Belarus, where Russian servicemen arrived, it follows from the monitoring of western aviation resources.

The new Russian single-engine stealth fighter of the fifth generation Checkmate, the prototype of which was shown at MAKS-2021, will be able to carry up to five air - to-air missiles and other ammunition in the fuselage compartments, Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, said in an interview with RIA Novosti at the air show.

A supercomputer was used in the development of the new Russian single-engine fighter of the fifth generation Checkmate, Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, said in an interview with RIA Novosti at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The numbers "75" are lucky for the Sukhoi Design Bureau and echo the name of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter, said Alexey Bulatov, deputy designer of Checkmate

The United Aircraft Corporation Rostec explained the tail number "75"of the new light tactical fighter.

The cost of a flight hour of the new Russian fifth-generation fighter Checkmate will be seven times less than that of the American F-35, said the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar.

Checkmate is equipped with an artificial intelligence that performs the role of a "co-pilot", said the chief designer of a light tactical aircraft, Mikhail Strelets

The new automated logistics support system Matreshka has been created for a new light single-engine fighter. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Mikhail Strelets, First Deputy Managing Director - Director of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, chief designer of a light tactical aircraft (LTS).

Mikhail Strelets, First Deputy Managing Director - Director of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, noted that we are talking about both manned versions of the fighter and its unmanned modifications

The new Checkmate light single-engine fighter can operate in a network-centric combat system and work as part of a group of manned and unmanned aircraft.

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) "Rostec" will create an unmanned version of the Checkmate light tactical fighter ("Checkmate"), equipped with one engine. Rostec said this at a presentation during the International Aviation and Space Salon of 2021 (MAKS-2021), TASS reports.

According to the corporation, the potential objects of application of the created demonstrator can be high-speed small vessels for various purposes, including traveling, rescue and patrol

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of the Rostec State Corporation) is developing a hybrid power plant (GSU) designed for various vessels. This was reported to TASS during the MAKS-2021 air show in the UEC.