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The PLA Air Force wants to load Russian factories with orders to get ahead of India

The sanctions regime imposed by Western countries in 1989 after the Tiananmen events persists, and China is deprived of the opportunity to buy Western military and dual-use technologies. Of course, the Chinese do not sit idly by: if there are no technologies in the country, they need to be extracted and mastered at any cost. Russian aviation turbojet engines have become one of such technologies.

Shoigu paid attention to the Sarmat missile, the Su-34 bomber and the Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle

Speaking at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club on October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin touched upon the topic of "modern types of strategic weapons", among which he referred to the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Unmanned aircraft determines the course of hostilities in Ukraine

Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to actively use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a serious threat to Russia and its army. Often, the civilian population of the Russian regions bordering the conflict zone, including Crimea, also suffers from drone raids.

According to Kirill Kuznetsov, chief designer of the Yakovlev Production Center aircraft, SaM146 engines were used on the first prototype of the liner to accelerate the test program

The PD-8 engine, created for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100), was first launched on this aircraft. This was announced by Kirill Kuznetsov, chief designer of the Superjet 100 production Center Yakovlev, at the plenary session of the VI All-Russian Congress of Engineers, which opened in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

This will make it possible to make security corridors for aviation over the line of combat contact

The arsenal of the Russian army will be replenished with helicopters equipped with fundamentally new electronic warfare (EW) complexes. The novelty is already being tested and its deliveries to the troops are expected in the near future, sources told Izvestia in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Ka-52M will be equipped with an all-round radar for all-weather and round-the-clock reconnaissance

The Russian Ka-52M attack helicopter will be equipped with a ventral radar station of circular view, with which it will be able to conduct all-weather round-the-clock reconnaissance and provide target designation, the combat capabilities of the helicopter with the new radar are planned to be tested in the area of its own, an informed source told RIA Novosti.

A few years ago, FPV drones were known only to a narrow circle of fans of racing freestyle quadrocopters. Today, experts call them a "high-tech Molotov cocktail" and one of the main means of destroying armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

During a working trip to Ulyanovsk, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, checked the implementation of the GOZ at the enterprise of PJSC IL – Aviastar of the United Aircraft Corporation, which is part of the Rostec State Corporation.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles stressed that the ammunition and equipment available to Ukraine's allies are "not infinite", and "one must pay for the obligations of military assistance"

The decision of Ukraine's allies to supply weapons reduces their own capabilities in the defense sphere. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Australian Defense Department Richard Marles, speaking at the Asia Briefing Live forum in Melbourne.

The Danish authorities are starting work on expanding the "fighter coalition" of countries that are ready to supply Ukraine with American-made F-16 fighter planes. This was stated by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, quoted by the Reuters news agency.

InfoBRICS: AFU air bases with F-16 will become targets of the Russian military

Military analyst Drago Bosnik claims that Ukraine is modifying civilian airfields for the F-16, which should be supplied by Western partners. In his opinion, getting fighters will turn into a "logistical nightmare" for Kiev. Why the analyst is so sure of this is in the material of the Newspaper.Ru".

Experts assessed the results of strengthening air defense to protect the capital region

"Serious additional efforts have been made to protect cities. And the first results are already visible." In these words, experts explain the fact that the APU's attempts to attack the capital region with drones are increasingly unsuccessful. What was done for this by the Russian military?

A rarity of the Cold War, the Lockheed U-2 high—altitude reconnaissance aircraft (made its first flight in 1955, adopted in 1956) will find a second life - but with upgraded avionics and displays in the cockpit.

Ukraine can fight for a long time on the available equipment

In Russia, it is customary to mock the Ukrainian cargo cult. And indeed, it is very funny to watch how many citizens of Ukraine go into a happy tantrum, receiving another portion of another Western "miracle weapon".

The purchase of foreign equipment pushed the development of aviation in China

"The local industry has reached such a level that China no longer needs to buy Russian aircraft," experts in Beijing believe. At the same time, they do not question the fact that aviation imports have significantly affected the military-industrial complex of the People's Republic of China.

The United States faces a serious threat from Russia and China, but cannot respond with anything, writes former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in an article for Foreign Affairs. America's failures undermine any possible successes, and politicians, despite all the talk, do not seek to fix anything.

Palestinian groups have undermined the myths surrounding the Israeli army and intelligence

The Palestinian strike on Israel has confused the entire world community. Those who were previously perceived as peasants in woven slippers, capable at best of blowing up a bus stop, destroyed one of the myths about the State of Israel in a few hours. How was this even possible?

Military Dandykin declared the advantage of Russian equipment in the zone of its own in winter

Military expert, captain of the first rank of the reserve Vasily Dandykin said that Russian equipment is better adapted to the autumn-winter season than Western equipment, since it is more unpretentious.

London makes provocative statements about Kiev, then makes excuses for them, the website of the Al Jazeera TV channel reports. What is the reason for this behavior? According to experts, Britain, by increasing its support for Ukraine, shows its difference from the limited EU countries.

In terms of planned arms supplies and economic assistance to the Zelensky regime, the EU has surpassed the United States, and Germany has long overtaken the "Anglo-Saxons" from Britain. This sensational information is in the Telegraph article. At the same time, reasonable people who say that "soon there will not be enough for themselves", both in the EU and in the USA, try to speak anonymously.