Aviation news

Russia has no plans to purchase Bayraktar attack drones from Turkey, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) told Interfax on Wednesday.

Covering the Kuril Islands, the 18th machine-gun and artillery Division decided to equip more modern armored vehicles. More precisely, they will receive the tankers of this division.

In the Moscow region, the construction of a serial plant for the production of attack drones has begun

At the industrial site in Dubna, near Moscow, builders have begun the construction of the first plant in Russia, in the workshops of which they will mass-assemble attack unmanned aerial vehicles. The Kronshtadt company intends to invest more than four billion rubles in the project.

The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked a terrorist training base near Palmyra, as a result, up to 200 militants and about 500 kg of ammunition were destroyed. This was announced on Monday, April 19, by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Alexander Karpov.

The arrival of US military aircraft F-15 and F-16 on the territory of Poland is not a reaction of Washington to the situation around Ukraine, it is a common practice in the framework of the exercises, said on Monday the representative of the Pentagon John Kirby.

The crews of the Su-25SM3 aviation unit of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District, based in the Stavropol Territory, flew to the operational airfields of the Crimea.

Seven vessels, a helicopter and a plane took part in an exercise to rescue an emergency ship in the Barents Sea, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Tuesday.

The American long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) MQ-4 Triton was able to scout the situation near Voronezh. This follows from the visualization of the capabilities of the drone, presented by the Telegram channel "Military Informant".

As stated on April 15, the president of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) Art Chang, Taiwan is implementing a national project to develop a new generation fighter for the country's Air Force.

The facilities will provide camouflage equipment from satellite surveillance and fire exposure

More than three hundred shelters will be built for the deployment of advanced aviation equipment, including fifth-generation aircraft, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry has built a runway for all types of aircraft on the Arctic island of Alexandra Land (Arkhangelsk Region), Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

German, Danish and Finnish Air Force fighters escorted Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers while flying over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

In the Leningrad region, the calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles of the combined-arms army of the Western Military District (ZVO), as part of a control check for the winter training period, worked out tasks to search for command posts of a conditional enemy.

The company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies) has introduced three new unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian use. The presentation of the new products took place on Wednesday in Moscow as part of the ZALA EXPO exhibition.

The use of mathematical modeling in the aircraft industry using supercomputer technologies can already significantly reduce the time of work and financial costs.

In the Center for Combat Use and Retraining of the flight personnel of the Russian Navy's Naval Aviation in Yeisk, the cadets of the training battalion were released, who completed the training cycle.

Command and staff training (KSHT) with military authorities, formations and military units has started on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.

The MiG-31BM interceptor fighters worked out the elements of air combat and conducted missile firing over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the training was attended by aircraft of a separate mixed aviation regiment of Troops and forces.

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.