United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), a subsidiary of Rostec carried out static testing of the wing box of the MS-21 aircraft, made of Russian polymer composite materials. To confirm the strength of the product, it was subjected to breaking loads, significantly exceeding those that are possible in real flight
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A referendum on joining Russia will reportedly be held on the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) soon, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the LPR, was quoted as saying by the Luhansk Information Center
Russian billionaires are reportedly putting up their private jets for sale as western sanctions set in. Vladimir Potanin, Yuri Shefler, Rustem Teregulov, Alexander Svetakov, Arkady Volozh, Eduard Berman are selling their aircraft,
Antonov is seeking for donations to get the world's biggest plane An-225 Mriya into the air again. The plane was destroyed by Russian forces in the early days of the Ukraine invasion
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a test rocket under the BOLT II project, providing another opportunity to gain flight data on the difficulties of hypersonic flight. The Air Force says the BOLT II “In memory of Mike Holden” flight experiment, managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), was launched on the evening of March 21 from the NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
The Kremlin for the first time acknowledged that a “minority of Russians,” representing less than 25% of the population, are opposing Moscow's war on Ukraine. "There are few of them (who oppose the war)
Lockheed Martin UK signed a teaming agreement to join “Team Thunder” led by Hanwha Defense to build a new K9 Howitzer variant for the British Army. The team, which also includes Pearson Engineering, Horstman Defence Systems, Leonardo UK, and Soucy Defense of the Soucy Group, will build an advanced variant of the K9 Self-Propelled Howitzer for the Royal Artillery, as part of the Mobile Fires Platform (MFP) programme for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)
Two Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 fighters were shot down by Russias Buk-M3 air defense system in the Chernihiv region. The standard operative procedure for an air defense system is to fire at a target and then move to change position
A Boeing 737 operated by Chinese Eastern airlines crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city. The airplane was flying a domestic route from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou when it crashed on a hill in Guangxi province