Russia

Aviation Week Staff
Russia plans to reengine the SSJ-100 fleet with PD-8 turbofans, replacing SaM146 engines as sanctions halt production and certification progresses.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Russian aircraft manufacturer Yakovlev has begun flight trials of the Yak-130M, a modernized version of its combat jet trainer.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Simon Daly, Guy Ferneyhough
Data for airliner utilization in Russia shows a significant drop in flights so far in 2026, with narrowbody flight cycles in May down more than a third year over year.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Mark Carreau
A NASA safety panel praised the International Space Station (ISS) program on June 22 for the precautionary steps it recently took while Russian cosmonauts looked into the latest in a series of worrisome air leaks.
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Staff
A few days after Tehran and Washington reached a preliminary peace deal, the Iranian Red Crescent Society turned to Russia to renew its rotorcraft fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Russia's federal air transport agency Rosaviatsia has certified two key domestic aerospace programs: the PD-8 turbofan and Ilyushin Il-114-300 passenger turboprop.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
A Russian one-way attack drone hit a residential building in Romania, injuring two people.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev conducted a 6-hr., multitask spacewalk outside the International Space Station on May 27.
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Staff
Russian Helicopters has tested the Kamov Ka-226T medium twin helicopter with the new Klimov VK-650V turboshaft, marking the third engine the company has tested with the aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
For Russia and Ukraine, the battle of electronic warfare tools versus drones is a seemingly neverending cycle of evolution.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Ukraine has been able to use electronic attack techniques to seriously degrade the effectiveness of Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile and other systems.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK government has accused Russia of recklessness after two dangerous intercepts of Royal Air Force Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft in international airspace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Multiple modifications made by Russia to improve the lethality and survivability of the Kh-101cruise missile against air defenses have achieved only limited success.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Latvia’s defense minister resigns after drone incursions expose airspace vulnerabilities, prompting leadership changes and calls for stronger defense.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Aviation Week Staff
The strike occurred at about 8:00 a.m. local time and was part of a large air attack from Ukraine.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
With conflicts near its borders increasingly dominated by one-way attack drones, Turkey’s defense industry is accelerating efforts to develop domestic options.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
A decade after the project started, Russia debuts its Soyuz-5 launcher and awaits commercial customers.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
After more than a decade of suffering an erosion of its launch prowess, Russia is trying to make a comeback with the inaugural launch of a new Soyuz rocket.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s next SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station will deliver four crewmembers for a long-duration mission.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Guy Norris
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office says 40,155 near-Earth objects of all sizes have now been discovered and tracked.
Operations & Safety

By Steve Trimble
In a battlespace unrecognizable from when the war began in 2022, Ukraine’s adaptations appear to be outpacing the Russian invaders.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Staff
Russia’s Tupolev has unveiled its first widebody aircraft concept, the Tu-454; industry sources say, however, that it is not an active development program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A Ukrainian pilot program that has opened the country's air defense to the private sector has resulted in the first successful engagements of Russian drones.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Indian Air Force can proceed with plans to buy a host of defense equipment.
Aircraft & Propulsion