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    (Translated by Roy Cochrun)
    (Translating the News for You since Spring, 2000)

    Highlights for the Week of 02 March 2008
  • The Su-35


  • 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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