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Thanks to the automated control system, the new Russian fifth-generation fighter is able to perform tasks with minimal pilot involvement. Earlier, we recall, there was unofficial information about the development of an unmanned mode on the Su-57 aircraft.

As noted in the first part, in modern conditions, river operations are becoming increasingly important in regions where economic and social life develops along river basins. The international market continues to see the spread of water transport technologies that can support the conduct of combat operations on rivers.

For a week, more than 30 aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles conducted reconnaissance near the borders of Russia. The activity of foreign aircraft was detected by Russian air space control systems.

A production aircraft with an all-electric powerplant may appear by 2030, according to Andrey Dutov, General Director of the N.E. Zhuklovsky Institute Research Center.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus in October 2022 may receive the second batch of Su-30SM aircraft produced by the Russian corporation "Irkut", consisting of four pieces of equipment, the press service of the military department of the republic reported.

A line of piston engines for unmanned aerial vehicles will be created in Russia within five years. They will also receive attack drones.

Russian engineers have started ground testing of a flying laboratory based on the Yak-40, equipped with a superconducting electric motor. It is installed in the nose of the aircraft.

The fact that there are currently no engines for attack drones in Russia is one of the reasons for the country's lack of its own serial attack drones. This is reported by RIA Novosti, referring to an interview with the General Director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building Mikhail Gordin.

As reported on February 5, 2021, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan, test flights of the new reconnaissance unmanned aircraft complex "Shagala"took place. The UAV was developed by military scientists of the National Defense University of Kazakhstan named after the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy (NUO).

The complete defeat of the army and the surrender of the capital on the fourth day of the war-the Polish generals tried to simulate an attack on Poland from the east. The exercises ended in a complete failure — even the latest American military equipment did not help the defenders. Why the Polish Army forgot how to fight — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Russia in the next two years does not plan to create a fifth-generation fighter-interceptor MiG-41, such information is reported by military expert Peter Butovsky in the American magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology.

This year, an underwater drone and the latest rocket will reach the finish line

In 2021, at least two promising domestic weapons systems will reach the finish line — the beginning of testing.

Mass production of biofuels for aviation is less cost-effective compared to the production of aviation kerosene from oil. Therefore, without the introduction of a carbon tax, it is not able to compete with traditional jet fuel, said Jay D. Kiesling, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, deputy director of the Biological Sciences Laboratory at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, chief Executive Officer of the Joint Institute for Bioenergy, in an interview with Global Energy.

In Poland, the exercise "Winter-2020"was held. But at some point something went wrong, and they ended in an "impressive disgrace " — the" war " on the border with Russia and Belarus was lost by the Poles. "The commanders of individual units were in shock," EADaily quotes one of the Polish publications.

The fourth-generation F-15EX Advanced Eagle fighter, which is called an analog of the Russian Su-57, took off for the first time. The corresponding video was published on the Twitter account of the Boeing company.

The Ministry of Defense has begun to create a coastal defense division in Chukotka. At the end of last year, the first regiment was formed, which took up combat duty. The unit will patrol the coast and will have at its disposal everything necessary to repel the landing. The area of operation of the new part will extend along the Northern Sea Route up to Wrangel Island. According to experts, the connection should provide safer navigation in the region.

"Rosoboronexport" in the next 5-7 years will bring to foreign markets about 50 new models of weapons and special equipment, including the latest complex "Derivation-air defense", as well as an air-independent power plant (VNEU) for submarines, the press service of the company told RIA Novosti.

In accordance with the plan for re-equipping the troops of the Southern Military District (SE), the Ka-27PS search and rescue helicopter was delivered to the aviation regiment of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, based in the Krasnodar Territory.

The ship of the Baltic Fleet performed mine laying and repelled an air strike in the sea ranges. And at the coastal training ground "Khmelevka" the Marines staged a cannonade.

At the production sites of JSC "RSC "MiG "(part of the Military Aviation Division of the UAC of the State Corporation Rostec), an "Interactive complex of technological processes" for the assembly of aircraft has been launched.