Date Posted
07 March 2008
Su-35 Fighter Makes Successful Second Test Flight
The 117S engines which have been installed on the Su-35 multirole
fighter operated reliably and steadily during this combat aircraft’s second test
flight a the Gromov Flight Research Institute, they reported at the Sukhoy firm
after the completion of this cycle of tests.
“Various power plant and control system functions were tried out for more than
2 hours. The airplane’s stability and control performance was tested. There were
no criticisms of the engines, systems and equipment operation,” they explained at
Sukhoy.
Russia’s honored
test pilot Sergey Bogdan piloted the airplane. He himself lifted the Su-35 into
the air for the first time on 19 February
2008.
At the present time, assembly of two more flyable Su-35 examples is underway at
the Komsomol’sk-on-Amur Yu.A. Gagarin Aviation Production Association, which is
included in the Sukhoy holding company. Series
production and deliveries of the fighters to Russian and foreign customers is
planned for 2010 – 2011. “Its arrival into the Russian air force inventory will
reinforce the country’s defense capability and also allow the Sukhoy company to
remain competitive until the appearance of the fifth generation fighter in the
marketplace,”” the firm’s representative emphasized.
The Su-35 is a heavily modified ultra-maneuverable multirole generation
“4++” fighter. Fifth generation technologies are used in it which provide
supremacy over fighters of the same class.
The airplane’s distinguishing features are a new avionics complex based
on a digital information and control system and a new radar with a phased
antenna array. The fighter is able to detect airborne targets at a great
distance and shoot at them first.
The 117S engine is a major upgrade of the AL-31F and has a thrust of
14.5 tonnes, which exceeds the figures of the basic engine by 2 tonnes. Work on
the creation and organization of series production of the 117S is being carried
out on a parity basis by the Saturn scientific and production association and
the Ufa motor building production
association.
The Sukhoy company plans to export the Su-35 – to the countries of Southeast
Asia, Africa, the Middle East
and South America.
Source: 07.03.08, Gudok
Sukhoy Company Plans to Begin Su-35 Series Production in
2010 - 2011
((At Komsomol’sk-on-Amur.
Title says the rest. Not further
translated.))
Source: 07.03.08, Finam.RU
Date Posted
06 March 2008
Ka-32 Helicopters Delivered to Portugal
Have New Avionics
The six Ka-32A11BC helicopters delivered to Portugal
last years in accordance with an earlier signed contract were equipped with a new
flight navigational complex, an informed source in the area of helicopter construction
reported to an AviaPort.RU correspondent.
According to him, the new flight navigation complex, in the assembly of which enterprises
in the cities of Ul’yanovsk and Saratov
took part, was developed by the OAO Aviapribor Holding company.
“Included in the new flight navigational complex installed on the Ka-32A11BC, in
particular, is a domestically manufactured digital autopilot which provided automated
landing approach,” the source emphasized.
He recalled that at the present time the Ka-32A11BC modification which has been
certified in a whole number of the world’s countries, including Canada (BC is
British Columbia), is the most improved and the base for further improvement of
this type helicopter. Ka-32A helicopters are manufactured in series at the
Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise state enterprise.
“OAO Kamov has accumulated a sufficient scientific and engineering reserve for
future improvement of the Ka-32A helicopter. In particular, depending on demand
in the aviation marketplace, it is possible to expand the cargo (passenger)
cabin (the Ka-32-10 project), install more powerful VK-2500 aircraft engines
and increase the helicopter’s payload capacity using the many technical and
engineering solutions which have been realized on the Ka-50 combat helicopter,”
the source emphasized.
Source: 06.03.08, AviaPort.RU, Correspondent: Dmitriy Kozlov
Date Posted
05 March 2008
On the Threshold of the Fifth Generation
GIST.
This very long article (nearly 1,500 words) rehashes
previous information about the Su-35 multirole fighter which has just begun
flight tests at the M.M. Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovskiy. Russian Federation Honored Test Pilot Sergey
Bogdan is the chief pilot for the tests.
The first flight lasted 55 minutes and the aircraft reached 5,000 meters
altitude. Engines, systems and equipment
all functioned as advertised.
The Su-35 (the second usage of this designator by the Sukhoy
bureau) is distinguished from the Su-30MKI in that there is no canard, nor is
there a large dorsal speed brake. The
braking function is provided by differential rudders. The takeoff and landing weights have gone up,
so the landing gear has been strengthened and a second wheel added to the nose
gear. Airframe improvements give the fighter a service life of up to 6,000
hours or 30 years of service, with a mean-time-between overhaul of up to 1,500
hours or 10 years of service. The radar
cross section has been reduced in the microwave region. There is a triply redundant fly-by-wire
system with no mechanical linkage. The new 117S engine is the airplane’s
heart.
The glass cockpit is representative of the Su-35’s new avionics,
which included two main computers. The
liquid crystal display consists of two color displays measuring 9 X 12 inches
(15 inches diagonally) with a resolution of 1,400 X 1,050 pixels, providing
multiple windows on demand. Practically
everything can be controlled using hands-on-throttle-and-stick technology.
The “Irbis-Eh” phased array radar was developed by the V.V.
Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Building. The radar can be electronically and
mechanically aimed up to 120 degrees in azimuth. Two examples of the radar presently are
undergoing bench tests. One was being
test flown on a Su-30MK2 flying laboratory at the Gromov Flight Research
Institute in early 2007 and it demonstrated high performance in the
air-to-ground mode. While the aircraft
is not viewed as an answer to the F-22, the radar allows the Su-35 to fight the
American aircraft under certain conditions.
It can track up to 30 targets simultaneously and fire simultaneously at
8 airborne or 4 ground targets. Targets
with a radar cross section of 3 meters square during head-on encounters can be
detected up to 400 kilometers away, while targets with an RCS of 0.01 meters
square can be detected up to 90 kilometers.
At 50 kilometers, the radar can resolve a tight formation of targets 50
– 100 meters apart, 5 meters per second in speed and 2.5 degrees angular
coordinates. It also can detect and
track air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles fired at the aircraft.
The aircraft has 12 hard points and can carry up to 8,000
kilograms in stores.
Two additional Su-35 test aircraft will join the one flying
now later this year. Series production
is to begin as early as 2010 - 2011 and
continue in parallel with the fifth generation fighter when it appears.
Source: 05.03.08, Krasnaya
Zvezda, Correspondent: Yuriy Avdeev
Date Posted
04 March 2008
Americans Will Have to Fight Against Russian and Chinese
Airplanes
GIST.
Somewhat long article discusses Iran’s
wish to purchase Russian and/or Chinese fighters. The country is interested in
purchasing in particular 250 Russian Su-30 and 40 Chinese J-10 fighters.
Russia already has sold Iran 24 MiG-29, 12 Su-24 and several dozen air
defense systems. The article also points out that Russia delivered “some quantity of MiG-29 and Su-24” to Iran
in the beginning of the 1990s.
Source: 04.03.08, GTRK Television
Russian Federation
and Iran Sign
Protocol about Deliveries over 10 Years of 100 Tu-204 and Tu-214 Airplanes
((Title says it all.
Not further translated.))
Source: 04.03.08, Gudok
Date Posted
3 March 2008
First Flight of Upgraded Su-25UBM Attack Aircraft to Take
Place in Near Future
((A second aircraft is under construction at the Ulan-Ude
plant. Not further translated.))
Source: 03.03.08, AviaPort.RU, Correspondent: Dmitriy Kozlov
Sukhoy Company Delivers Four More Su-30MKM Fighters to
Malaysia
((The country received six under the contract in
2007. A total of 18 are to be
delivered.))
Source: 03.03.07, AVIA.RU
BTS-002OK-GLI Airplane Counterpart to "Buran” to
Be Exhibited at German Museum in Sensheim
The
fate of the BTS-002OK-GLI airplane counterpart to the "Buran” finally has
had its fate determined.
As a researcher for the history program, “Buran,” Vadim Lukashevich, reported
to Gazeta.RU, after many years of court hearings in the courts of Bahrain,
the largest private technical museum in Europe in the
German city of Sensheim has become
its owner.
On 27 February, museum management departed for Bahrain to obtain permission to
remove the BTS-002, and, as is expected, in the coming 2 – 3 months the BTS-002
will be loaded onto a ship and delivered to the city of Speyer where it will
become the center of a space exposition in the largest museum hangar and
pavilion which has been especially built for it.
((The
BTS-002 is a full-scale Buran that flew under its own power. See http://www.buran.ru/htm/anabst.htm
for photos and video.))
Source: 29.02.08, Gazeta.RU
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