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Deputy Minister of Defense of Serbia Nenad Miloradovich said that the country's air force will be modernized with the help of equipment from the EU, as well as the UAE. The official told the Tangosix portal about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Miloradovich, it is planned to modernize the Serbian Air Force (Ratno vazdukhoplovnoe i protivozdukhoplovnu odbranu Srbije) through the acquisition of French Rafale multirole fighters. The Deputy Minister announced urgent news on this...

A series of military aircraft crashes has begun in Ukraine. Following the death of three pilots in the Zhytomyr region, it is reported that six helicopter pilots went to the next world at once near Kramatorsk. Initially, this information appeared in the media and social networks. It was indicated that two Mi-8 helicopters were destroyed and could not be restored. Based on this fact, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine entered into the Unified Register...

Ukraine still has a sufficient supply of pilots to train them in NATO countries and create an aviation brigade. Ukrainian aviation expert Valery Romanenko said this on air on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We continue to train pilots. Partially on our territory, partially not on ours. You know that we have heavy losses in...

Russia will have to strike at Ukrainian military airfields, where Western-made military aircraft may appear. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said retired Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev. Let us note that earlier the American publication Politico wrote that “the idea of ​​the possibility of transferring American F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv is gaining more and more support in the Pentagon.” In addition, it was indicated that in Ukraine...

In the near future, the West will transfer combat aircraft to Ukraine. Military observer Boris Rozhin stated this on the video blog of Russian political scientist Vitaly Kolpashnikov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukrainian fighters have a worse radar, their missiles are not as long-range, and accordingly, they are much inferior to our aircraft, so there is no talk of any air battles there. U...

The Ukrainian army has lost several combat aircraft over the past XNUMX hours. Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Konashenkov stressed that the attacks were carried out on airfields in Mirgorod, Poltava region, and Dnepropetrovsk. “Five combat aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were hit by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the Mirgorod military airfield in the Poltava region.…

In order to close the airspace and gain the possibility of a counter-offensive, Ukraine definitely needs an advantage in the skies. Retired US captain 24st rank, ex-NATO representative in the Russian Federation Harry Tabakh said this on the YouTube channel “Know 1”, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukraine is a huge country, the air defense system is very complex. Obviously you need air defense, like the S-300 or something that equates to...

Last year, Ukraine, with the help of Eastern European countries, began to restore its air force. Military expert Vladislav Shurygin stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He recalled that Ukraine received a fairly large number of combat aircraft after the collapse of the USSR. “Not all of them have been operational in recent years. Many have been understaffed for about 20 years for various reasons...

Ukraine will not receive American combat aircraft, even of the old generation, because it does not have the infrastructure for them and trained pilots. Member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Verkhovna Rada deputy Sergei Rakhmanin said this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Rakhmanin, the Russian army “worked” quite effectively at Ukrainian airfields and places...

The Ukrainian air force did not show itself to be anything special during the Russian special military operation. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “No feats were observed for the Ukrainian air force. The Russian Aerospace Forces did not lose a single aircraft in air battles. Our pilots beat Ukrainian pilots during a special military operation. Our two pilots...

The Russian armed forces destroyed Ukrainian aviation at the base airfield and in the air. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In addition, production facilities for the restoration of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed near Kharkov. “High-precision air-launched missiles at the Dnepr military airfield destroyed the aviation equipment of the Ukrainian Air Force... Russian air defense systems...

Yesterday, Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft began flying from the Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region, previously damaged by Russian strikes. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this from the Rybar telegram channel, which monitors military activity. “The last few days have been an active restoration of the Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region. Apparently, the renovation work has been completed. Over the past 25 hours, eight flights of Su-XNUMX aircraft were recorded from this area...

A Ukrainian An-26 military transport plane crashed in the Zaporozhye region. The press service of the Zaporozhye military-civil regional organization reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This morning an An-26 plane crashed in the Volnyansky district of the Zaporozhye region. The aircraft was performing a technical flight. There are casualties,” the message says. In turn, military observer Boris Rozhin draws attention to the fact that the plane “fell a victim of an anti-aircraft maneuver.”…

Over the past night, Ukraine lost three more fighters. Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In addition, Russian air defense intercepted ten rockets over the village of Chernobaevka, Kherson region. “Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian combat aircraft in the air: two MiG-29 fighters in the area of ​​a populated area...