Aviation news

The Chinese Navy conducted maneuvers in the South China Sea. On April 17, a video of the PLA Navy carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Liaoning in the Western Pacific Ocean, taken from the USS Mustin destroyer of the US Navy, appeared online.

Units of the Syrian army and the Russian military have subjected positions of Turkish-backed armed groups to intense artillery fire in the Idlib province, the Syrian news agency North Press agency (NPA) reported on Monday.

The Northern Fleet began training exercises involving ships, submarines, aircraft and air defense systems. The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the security of Russia's economic activities in the Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They noted that during the training, rescue operations, assistance at sea, crisis resolution, as well as the protection and defense of maritime communications will also be practiced.

"Orlan-10E" transmitted the coordinates of the target to the control machine, which calculated the settings for firing and sent them to the crew

Specialists of the Uralvagonzavod State Corporation Rostec demonstrated to the representatives of the foreign customer the interaction of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, upgraded to the NATO 155 mm caliber, and the Orlan-10E reconnaissance drone. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Rostec.

Russian strategic aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS have once again confirmed their high combat effectiveness. During the command and staff exercise, their crews, who rose from the Engels air base in the Saratov region, successfully hit targets with cruise missiles at the Pemboy training ground in the Komi Republic. In total, about a dozen aircraft were involved in the exercise. And the precise strikes of the missile carriers were recorded by means of objective control.

After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

Forty-three foreign planes and 15 drones conducted reconnaissance near the Russian borders during the week, according to data from the Russian Defense Ministry, which was published in the departmental newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda on Friday.

A subsidiary of Rostec-JSC "RT-Techpriemka" - and the Flight Safety Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation intend to implement a project to introduce advanced machine learning in the production and operation of military aircraft.

On Friday, April 16, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reported on the American strategic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135. It barraged over the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern coast of Kamchatka.

As reported by the news agency RIA Novosti, JSC "Kronshtadt" has begun construction of the first specialized plant in Russia for the serial production of attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the launch of the enterprise is scheduled for November. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of the company.

More than 10 Su-34 aircraft bombed the positions of the imaginary enemy at the training ground near Voronezh, the press service of the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

Also during the exercise, the crews of fighter and bomber aircraft will perform missile launches and bombing of sea targets

As part of the control check, the crews of the Su-25SM3 attack aircraft were relocated from the airfield in the Stavropol Territory to the operational airfields of the Crimea, and the squadron of aircraft was also relocated to the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region. In total, more than 50 aircraft were involved in these events, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported.

One of the two pilots who ejected from the crash of the Su-30 fighter jet in the Karaganda region is in hospital, the second pilot refused to be hospitalized, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan told Interfax-Kazakhstan on Saturday.

One of the four USAF B-1B bombers participating in the Norwegian support mission broke down.

According to The Drive portal, a US Air Force B-1B bomber from the 7th Bombardment Wing suffered serious engine damage in Norway. And although the mission of these four aircraft ended in March, the accident was officially announced only on April 16.

Northrop Grumman has announced the first flight of a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle built for the Japanese. In total, the Country of the Rising Sun should receive three such UAVs.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the work of the Republican army and police, which were equipped with Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" and Mi-35 helicopters, very effective, RIA Novosti reports.

Israeli designers have begun to copy Russian unmanned technologies, said the chief designer of the company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov group of companies") Alexander Zakharov.

The basis of the new system is the Lancet barrage munition developed by ZALA Aero

The world's first "air mining" system designed to defeat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with barrage ammunition has been developed in Russia.

The US Air Force has presented another vision of what a promising sixth-generation fighter can be, created under the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

PJSC "State Transport Leasing Company" (STLC, owned by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation) plans to deliver 45 aircraft of domestic production to the United Far Eastern airline "Aurora" by 2025, said the General Director of STLC Evgeny Dietrich.