Russian SU57 figher jet to get an invisiblity cloak.

Since mass production of the Sukhoi Su-57 began last year, developers have announced a number of add-ons for the fifth-generation fighter, ranging from new hypersonic missiles to plans to allow it to control swarms of drones.
Russia’s Su-57 fighter jets are going to receive special protective cloaks to shield them from bad weather and enemy radar detection while they are on their airfields, with delivery of the cloaks set to begin next year, Izvestia has reported , citing sources in the military and the military industry.
According to the newspaper, the cloaks will be made of radar signal-reflecting polymers, with each plane will receive over a dozen separate, specially-fitted covers for its fuselage, wings, cockpit, stabilisers, air intakes, wheels and other components.
In addition to cloaking the plane, the coverings will protect the planes’ external electronics, including antennae, sensors, radar and optical and electronic systems from the elements.
Lt. Gen. Valery Gorbenko, former commander of the 4th Air Force and Air Defence Army, told Izvestia that the cloaks will deprive the potential adversary of information such as where the planes are based, how many there are, as well as where and from where they have been transferred.
The officer added that the coverings’ protective qualities are a significant bonus. “It is important to protect modern equipment from bad weather. Today planes are sometimes covered up entirely, but this provides little protection from rain or snow. In southern regions, during sandstorms, paint is stripped from planes like emery.”
Sukhoi is currently working on the delivery of 76 Su-57s for the Ministry of Defence, with state testing on the planes delivered earlier set to be completed before the end of the year.
The Sukhoi Su-57, formerly known as the ‘PAK FA’ or T-50, is a supermanoeuvrable fifth-generation strike fighter with stealth characteristics and the latest avionics and weapons systems.
Taking part in combat evaluation in Syria in 2018 and 2019, the fighter jet formally began mass production in 2019. In the meantime, developers are working on a number of upgrades, including true fifth-generation engines and a hypersonic missile designed to be fitted in its weapons bay.

The exact price tag of the Su-57 programme is difficult to pin down. However, Russian business media reported last year that the contract with the MoD for the batch of 76 planes has an estimated cost of 170 billion rubles ($2.3 billion US), or about $30.4 million per plane. The plane’s development programme had a cost of about 60 billion 2010 rubles (about $2.8 billion).
These numbers compare favourably with Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightening II, which has a programme cost of $428.5 billion, and a gargantuan $1.19 trillion operations and sustainment cost through 2077, as well as a per plane price tag of $77.9 million for the F-35A, $94.4 million for the F-35C, and $101.3 million for the F-35B.

Makanika's rebel group and others attack Bilalombili and ngezi ,Disrupts the normal schedule of DRC state examinations

The preliminary exams for the State
Examination (EXETAT) were disrupted this
Monday, August 31, 2020 in the villages of
Bilalombili and Ngezi, near the center of
Mikenge in the territory of Mwenga in South
Kivu. And for good reason, the coalition of
armed groups Makanika and Ngumino
attacked these villages early in the morning of
Monday. The news was confirmed
by Captain Dieudonné Kasereka, spokesperson
for the Sukola 2 Sud Sud-Kivu operational
sector. He also specifies that several houses
were set on fire during this attack. “The regular
army was not present in the two villages
attacked and this rebel coalition had just the
objective of sabotaging the hardships and
burning the houses of the inhabitants. The
population fled and the students were
dispersed. Loyalist forces intervened and the
situation for the moment is a little calm, ”he
explained. Captain Dieudonné Kasereka points
out that a military officer was injured during the
intervention of the Armed Forces of the
Democratic Republic of Congo in the hunt for
these rebels. In addition, civil society sources
indicate that the clashes pitted the Ngumino
armed group against the Mai-Mai. André
Byadunia, coordinator of the New Congolese
Civil Society South South Kivu axis informs that
the villages Bilalombili and Ngezi were set on
fire and more than 500 students who should go
to Mikenge for the tests have been dispersed.

DRC cements good working relationship with US army

The
correspondence emphasizes the value of our
thriving partnership and military cooperation.https://t.co/ jbXj0FqbN5, ”Mike
Hammer tweeted Monday. It should be
remembered to always give thanks to military cooperation
between the DRC and the USA, the Congolese
soldiers will now be trained in the United
States. US Africa Command signed the letter to
resume security cooperation including the
training of FARDC officers in the United States
of America in early August. This signature
comes as the DRC is at Level 2-of the watch
list in the 2020 TIP Report thanks to the efforts
of the Presidency of the Republic against
trafficking in persons.y

Gorvenors of north kivu,south kivu and ituri met president Tshisekede in kinshasha.

The President of the Republic, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, received in turn, Saturday evening in his office of the City of the African Union, the delegations of the governors of the province of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, reports the presidential press. Jean Bamanisa Saidi, governor of Ituri province, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, Carly Nzanzu Kasivita of North Kivu and Théo Ngwabije Kasi of South Kivu, told audience, that they were invited to Kinshasa by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Security and Customary Affairs, Gilbert Kankonde, to examine issues relating in particular to disarmament, demobilization and community reintegration ( DDR-C), given that the questions that are acutely posed in the east of the country are of a security nature. He added that they had the opportunity to tour several ministries involved in this issue as well as donors. It is within this very specific framework that the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Security and Customary Affairs took them to the Head of State, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, to report back to him on their various contacts. in the capital, Kinshasa, Governor Bamanisa said. For the governor of ituri, the DDR-Communautaire can be summed up in much more substantial investments at the local level to be able to reduce the problem of unemployment and crime, this through various activities that can go through the roads of agricultural services. and agriculture as well as the administration which must be strengthened by local justice, given that the east of the country is an area particularly close to other countries in progress and before which we must catch up with a certain number of delay.

ADF kills another CONGOLESE civilian in a Saturday night attack on the village of kingamuviri.

It has been confirmed that a DRC civilian was shot dead in an attack by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) fighters in a night of Saturday, August 29, in the village of Kingamuviri, located in the locality of Kainama, north of Beni territory (North Kivu ).
The governor's delegate in the region, Didy Muhindo,said that the rebel incursion began at 2 p.m. local time. “It was while it was raining. He said. the body The body of the victim was discovered this Sunday morning lying in his plot.
The assailants' fire lasted several hours before the army intervened. This is the umpteenth attack by the Ugandan ADF rebels in the locality of Kainama this August when around ten people were killed.
This attack comes the day after the attack in Kitaura, at PK 2 on the Mbau-Kamango axis, which claimed the lives of 5 civilians and 8 soldiers.

M23 warns DRC gorvenment to stop using it as a scapegoat to it's insecurities and political problems.

An Update of the March 23 Movement on the National Government's allegations, this former rebel movement says it will not serve as a scapegoat for the DRC Government's flagrant inability to assume its own responsibilities in securing from Kivu-Ituri.
"We read with amazement on social networks the false allegations contained in the report of the 46th ordinary session of the Council of Ministers of the Central Government held in Kinshasa on Friday August 28, 2020 reporting the creation in the Province of South Kivu by some alleged ex-members of the M23 of a militia called Association for the Balkanization of the DRC and to have hoisted the flag of the “Republic of Kivu”, ”can be read in this update made on August 29, 2020 and signed by the President of the March 23 Movement, Bertrand BISIMWA.
The Movement is keeping in its press release its commitments contained in the declarations signed on December 12, 2013 in Nairobi and asks the Congolese Government to respect its own commitments made in the presence of 5 Heads of State of the member countries of the ICGLR and of SADC in the same occasion at the State House of Kenya in Nairobi.
The March 23 Movement does not currently have any ex-combatants in the Province of South Kivu apart from those repatriated without our knowledge by the Government of the Republic since 2014 and whose location of redeployment we do not know.
The M23 says it followed in May and June 2020 the arrest in the town of Bukavu by the ANR of senior officials of certain well-known politicians, including the PPRD, accused of having hoisted the flag of the "Republic of Kivu".
"These people are not members of M23 at all," the statement read.
The M23 deplores the fact that the current Government has found it difficult to shake off the influence of members of the former administration on the Nairobi commitments in particular and the peace process in the east of the country in general: refusal to apply its own commitments; duplication of peace interlocutors to sabotage the Nairobi process; demonization and multiplication of fortuitous accusations in the media against our Movement as if the Government were in search of the legitimization of the military option.
The M23 says that when they left Congolese territory on November 5, 2013 to facilitate the final return of peace, eastern DRC had 44 armed groups. In December 2019, a United Nations expert report counted more than 139 armed groups there. In July 2020 their number increased to 154.
"Are these armed groups the work of the March 23 Movement?" Asks the movement.
The M23 says that since the end of 2013, the Congolese government has failed to disarm or neutralize a single armed group.
"On the other hand, the old and the new armed groups consolidate their positions but do not question the established power from which they enjoy preferential treatment and often serve as auxiliaries to the National Army," underlines the movement.
According to M23, "the Congolese government does not have any serious Disarmament, Demobilization and Social Reintegration Program to accompany the Head of State's appeal to the various armed groups. From Ituri to South Kivu via North Kivu, the thousands of ex-combatants who responded to the call of the Head of State Félix Antoine TSHISEKEDI TSHILOMBO to lay down their arms and surrender to the FARDC n soon became disillusioned. Abandoned to their sad fate in their cantonment where they were left to hunger, disease and bad weather, they were quite simply forced to return to their maquis. "
And to wonder: "What testimony will they give to encourage the other combatants to lay down their arms? "
This former rebel movement says it refuses to take responsibility for the Congolese government's lack of will to restore peace and security in Kivu-Ituri.
"We have expressed to the Head of State, through several correspondence, our readiness to return to the country in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the relevant Recommendations made by the Heads of State of the member countries of the ICGLR and SADC during their various summits in Brazzaville and Luanda; We affirmed our willingness to make our contribution for the pacification of Kivu-Ituri; However, we feel like we are preaching in the wilderness, ”the M23 said in their update.
This is why he invites the Government of the Republic to stop making scapegoats on the head of the M23 to create a diversion from its own turpitudes.
“He should face the evidence of Kivu-Ituri's expressed will to break definitively with a dark past marked by wars and humanitarian tragedies. Kivu-Ituri simply requires special attention from the Head of State and his Government toeffectively conduct a vast contextualized multisectoral program for its stabilization and reconstruction, ”concluded the statement on this movement.

ADF attacked FARDC in the night of this ended Friday.

 Military sources talk about a JEEP destroyed by the ADF and six serious injured on FARDC side. On the side of the assailants there are dozens of neutralized fighters and several Ak47 armies recovered. The events took place on the road mbau kamango between PK 2 and 3. Three lifeless bodies, all civilians have just been discovered in Ngite in the same territory.