Aviation news
The Pentagon will upgrade the Apache: we need a superweapon. Isn't it a little late?
I'm looking for new weapons systems. For ex-super-athletes. So that they can fly past the air defense systems of Russia and China. The customer is the Pentagon. The agency decided to equip its AH-64 Apache with combat-ready systems. Better late than never?
MiG-31K aircraft with hypersonic missiles participate in Russian maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea - materials of the exercises
Russian MiG-31K fighters, relocated to Syria for exercises, performed flights over the Mediterranean Sea with hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal complex.
An incident with a Ukrainian plane occurred at a British air base
The Ukrainian transport plane An-225 "Mriya" during landing at the British Brize-Norton air base in the Cotswolds demolished the fence set up along the perimeter of the runway with air currents. The incident was reported on Friday, June 25, by the publication GloucestershireLive.
Large-scale exercises of the Russian Navy and VKS are held in the Mediterranean Sea
A joint exercise of the forces of the Navy (Navy) and the aviation of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia is taking place in the Mediterranean Sea.
Russian "Caliber" predicted a loss
In terms of the depth of impact on the enemy, an aircraft carrier with long-range radar detection and control aircraft and carrier-based fighters will lose to surface ships equipped with Kalibr-NK missiles, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, predicts in the Military-Industrial Courier.
The US allowed the Philippines to buy F-16 fighter jets
The Philippine Air Force can again arm itself with modern fighters. June 25, portal flightglobal.com he reported that the US government has approved the possible sale of F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines.
Germany has approved a joint program with Norway for the acquisition of submarines of the 212CD project
Three months have passed since Norway announced that after lengthy negotiations, they have finally agreed on an agreement with the German shipyard ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) on the acquisition of new submarines.
Expert: "floating berths" can solve the problem of creating an aircraft carrier fleet
The MiG-41 interceptor fighters currently being developed could be based on such aircraft carrier platforms, said one of their creators, Valentin Belanenko
The technical problem of creating offshore platforms for deck aviation of the Russian Navy can be solved with the help of "floating berths" - non-nuclear aircraft carriers with a flight deck of about 500 meters.
A BBC journalist denied the statements of the British Ministry of Defense on the incident with the destroyer
The BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale has accused the British Ministry of Defense of spreading false information about the incident with the British destroyer URO "Defender" in the Black Sea. This is stated in the publication posted on Wednesday, June 23.
A new generation of heat guns was presented at the exhibition in Minsk
New generation heat traps guarantee protection against the most "smart" missiles with infrared homing heads, they are presented for the first time at the MILEX 2021 exhibition in Minsk
The Pentagon declined to comment on the incident with the British destroyer in the Black Sea
The US Department of Defense did not comment on the incident in the Black Sea with the British Navy destroyer Defender. Media requests were forwarded to the UK Ministry of Defense.
Tu-22M3 was sunk by aircraft carriers of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Pacific Ocean
Russian long-range Tu-22M3 bombers as part of the exercises of the ship group of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) in the Pacific Ocean have worked out the destruction of aircraft carriers of a conditional enemy, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday.
In Germany, the British fleet was advised not to enter the waters of Russia
The British destroyer Defender should not have entered Russian territorial waters, and the military sailors of the United Kingdom should stay away from the coast of Crimea. This opinion was expressed by readers of the German publication Der Spiegel.
A video has appeared from the board of the shelled British destroyer Defender
The border incident off the coast of Crimea was removed from the Defender.
There was a report by the BBC correspondent Jonathan Beale, who was on board the destroyer Defender during yesterday's incident off the coast of Crimea.
The Spectator called the incident with the British destroyer Defender off the Crimea part of the NATO strategy
The world has witnessed the biggest escalation in relations between Russia and the UK since the Skripal case. So The Spectator columnist Tim Ogden commented on the recent incident with the British ship Defender.
The Sentinel-2 satellite captured the violation of the Russian border by the British Defender
The violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender near the Crimean Peninsula was shown from space. The corresponding image obtained by the European Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellite was demonstrated on Twitter by the user Gerjon_.
Hunter unmanned helicopter turned into an attack drone
At the MILEX-2021 exhibition held in Minsk, a new development of the Belarusian defense industry - the Hunter reconnaissance and strike aviation complex was presented.
It is reported that the created unmanned helicopter can search for and destroy armored vehicles and manpower in the conditions of counteraction provided by the enemy.
C-130 Hercules military transport plane shot down in Ethiopia
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.
The UK rejected the Russian version of the incident with the destroyer
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 destroyer Defender told what happened in the Black Sea
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.
