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(Translated by Roy Cochrun) (Translating the Russian Aviation News for You since Spring, 2000) Date Posted 12 March 2010 Engine Installed on Second PAK FA Fighter An "article 117" engine has been installed on the
second prototype of the newest fifth generation T-50 Russian fighter, also
known as the PAK FA (Future Tactical Aircraft Aviation Complex), RIA Novosti
reports referring to the OAO NPO Saturn managing director, Il'ya Fedorov. "There is a contract with the military and we have
executed it: we have put the engine on the second airplane. We made the article
on time, and we will meet the schedule for the next fighter, too," he
said. The PAK FA will enter the Russian air force inventory with a
first stage engine and work on the creation of a second stage engine will begin
after the defense ministry's implementation of a tender, the OAO OPK Oboronprom
general director, Andrey Reus, noted. "The first stage of the design is on-going - the fifth
generation airplane is flying, the engine has succeeded, and all it's
characteristics are being fine-tuned. Now the time for the second stage is
coming, the start of which depends on when the defense ministry's tender will
be announced, in which the Unified Engine Building Corporation and Salyut will
participate in cooperation with each other," Mr. Reus said. Source: 11.03.10, Avia.RU Sukhoy OKB Director Mikhail Pogosyan: "We Will Deliver
250 Fifth Generation Fighters to India" ((Interview with Pogosyan, not translated here.)) Source: 12.03.10, Gazeta, Correspondent: Yuriy Zaynashev Russo-Indian Military Transport Airplane to Fly in 6 - 8 Years ((Title says it all. Not
further translated.)) Source: 11.03.10, Avia.RU Samara Oblast' Government Approves Prospective Manufacture
of Be-32KM Airplane at Aviakor ((The short-range aircraft would be used to access hard-to-reach areas of the North and Siberia. No final decision was made on start-up of construction. Title says the rest. Not further translated.)) Source: 12.03.10,
Aviation Explorer Helicopter Plant to Be Built Outside Moscow Construction of a joint enterprise to manufacture Agusta
Westland ((in English)) European helicopters in Russia in the Moscow suburb of
Panki will start in the next two months. Source: 12.03.10, Gudok Date Posted 10 March 2010 Russia Does not Use GPS on Strategic Bombers - Ivanov Russia is not putting the American GPS ((Latin Letters))
navigational system onto Russian strategic bombers, Russian Federation vice
premier Sergey Ivanov declared, appearing at the State Duma on Wednesday within
the framework of the "governmental hour." ((Budget stuff
snipped)). Source: 10.03.10, RIA-Novosti "Aerial Start" Project Reaches Final Stage of Realization The realization of the "Aerial Start" project has achieved
its final stage, the deputy general director of the Vozdushnyy Start ((Aerial Start))
corporation, Sergey Teselkin, reported to an ARMS-TASS correspondent. Source: 09.03.10, ARMS-TASS Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers Intends to Allocate Almost 42
Million Dollars for An-70 Production ((Title says it all. Not
further translated.)) Date Posted 09 March 2010 Fifth Equivalence The premier has made the PAK FA program an example for the
whole industry The fifth generation fighter complies with all military
concepts about the first stage of this airplane's life. The T-50 test program is still proceeding
rather successfully. In the first three flights it was able to attain an angle
of attack greater than 25 degrees. During the creation of the Su-27, the same
result was achieved after more than half a year of tests. Actually, the PAK FA today is the most technologically advanced
product of Russian aircraft building. While some elements of its design remain transitional,
subject to subsequent replacement with more improved examples. Primarily, this relates
to the engine. The PAK FA was lifted into the air and will reach the inventory with
the so-called first stage engine, the more improved second stage motor will not
appear soon. As the Sukhoy Aviation Holding Company general director, Mikhail Pogosyan,
said, the cycle for creation of a new aircraft engine is 10 - 12 years, and inasmuch
as the process of the second stage engine's development is now at the stage of defining
the contours and principles for forming its operation, it will not appear earlier
than 2020 - 2022. It will occur if the winner of the competition declared by
the defense ministry finally is determined and real work on the creation of
this motor, supported by corresponding financing, begins as early as 2010, 2011
at the latest. Source: 09.03.10, Voenno-Promyshlennyy
Kur'er, Correspondent: Il'ya Kedrov Date Posted 08 March 2010 Three Contracts Ready for Signing Between Russia and India
in Sphere of Military and Technical Cooperation ((Contracts are for additional funding for aircraft carrier
"Admiral Gorshkov/Vikramadit'ya," delivery of 29 MiG-29K/KUB fighters
and joint development of Il-214 military transport. In addition, negotiations still are under way
for development of a new fighter based on the fifth generation PAK FA and for
the delivery of nearly 40 Su-30MKI fighters.
Not further translated.)) Source: 04.03.10, Avia.RU Malaysia Has Second Thoughts about Writing off MiG-29N Malaysia's government has announced a change of plans for
writing off 10 MiG-29N in 2010, Lenta.RU reports, referring to Defense
Aerospace ((in English)). At the same time, Malaysia has put off a tender for the
delivery of fighters which are supposed to replace the aging MiG-29. The
economic crisis was named as the reason for these decisions. According to a preliminary estimate, the MiG-29N will serve in
the 17th and 19th fighter squadrons of Malaysian air defense until 2015, after which
the possibility of their sale again will be examined by the government. It was reported in 2009 that Malaysia intended to write off and
then sell 10 of 16 MiG-29N purchased in Russia in 1995 during 2010. At the same
time, Malaysia had not ruled out that all MiG-29N may be sold in 2010. It also had
been reported that two companies, the names of which were not specified, already
had shown interest in the purchase. The reason for writing off the airplanes was
the high cost of their maintenance. Source: 05.03.10, Avia.RU First Batch of Indian Air Force Airplanes Arrives in Ukraine for Upgrade ((The An-32 will be upgraded at Plant 410 in Kiev. Equipment manufactured in Ukraine as well as
abroad is being installed that will increase flight safety. Systems include: collision avoidance, ground
proximity warning, satellite navigation, range finders, altimeters, radar with
two multifunctional displays, new oxygen equipment and improved crew
seating. Of the 105 airplanes to be upgraded,
Ukraine will do 40 and the rest at Kanpur in northern India.)) Source: 05.03.10, UNIAN Information Agency India Orders 18 An-148 Airplanes from OAK ((Title says it all. Not
further translated.)) Source: 05.03.10, Infox The Aviation Store
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