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OBORONPROM Corporation,
a Russian Technologies (Rostec)
ed industrial-investment
technologies sectors.
The Corporation integrates
and engine manufacturing companies
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November 2014
Editor-in-Chief
Andrey Fomin
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Vladimir Shcherbakov
Columnist
Alexander Velovich
Special correspondents
Alexey Mikheyev, Victor Drushlyakov,
Andrey Zinchuk, Ruslan Denisov,
Alexey Prushinsky, Sergey Krivchikov,
Anton Pavlov, Alexander Manyakin,
Yuri Ponomarev, Yuri Kabernik,
Marina Lystseva, Natalya Pechorina,
Sergey Popsuyevich, Piotr Butowski,
Alexander Mladenov, Miroslav Gyurosi
Translation
Yevgeny Ozhogin
Cover picture
Alexey Mikheyev
Publisher
Director General
Andrey Fomin
Marketing Director
George Smirnov
Dear reader,
You are holding a new issue of
the Take-Off magazine, a special
supplement to Russian monthly national
aerospace magazine VZLET, that has
been timed with Airshow China 2014.
By tradition, the aerospace exhibition
in Zhuhai has been attended by
numerous Russian participants and businessmen. Small wonder, because
the Russian-Chinese aerospace cooperation has been given a strong
impetus over the past more than 20 years. As a result, China has become
in 1990s a top importer of Russian aircraft, first and foremost, Sukhoi jets.
Today, the Russian-made Sukhoi Su-27SK/UBK and Su-30MKK fighters
are the mainstay of PLAAFs new-generation fighter fleet while two dozens
Su-30MK2s serve with PLANAF. Moreover, Chinas own aerospace
plants have mastered Su-27SKs license production. The next step will
be a contract for deliveries of the advanced Sukhoi Su-35 multirole
supermanoeuvrable fighters to be signed in the nearest future.
Aero engines deliveries also have been high on the priority list of the
Russian-Chinese aviation cooperation, with these turbofans powering
both Russia-supplied and advanced indigenous Chinese fighters, the J-10
and FC-1 (JF-17), prototypes of Chinese 5th generation fighters, the J-20
and J-31, as well as Chinese brand-new heavy transport aircraft, the Y-20
debuting at Airshow China 2014. Russian experts also consult their
Chinese counterparts developing new aircraft with advanced Chinese
L-15 and L-7 trainer aircraft among them.
However, the Russian-Chinese cooperation does not limit itself to
fixed-wing aircraft. China operates more then a hundred Russian-made
Mil Mi-17 and Mi-171 helicopters and deliveries go on. Russian-made
Mi-26TC heavylifters have got a great success here in firefighting and
rescue operations. Recently China received new batches of Kamov
Ka-28, Ka-31 and Ka-32A11BC helicopters. So, the cooperation
has been on the rise, with new contracts for aircraft deliveries
and joint projects development to be placed in the future. One of
the most promising projects of such joint programmes could become
a prospective widebody airliner which Russian and Chinese engineers
are going to develop together.
I wish all participants and guests of Airshow China 2014 to meet their
partners, establish useful links and snag lucrative contracts.
Aeromedia, 2014
Sincerely,
Andrey Fomin,
Editor-in-Chief,
Take-off magazine
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MILITARY AVIATION
Su-30SM for Russian Naval Aviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New Sukhoi jets from Amur shores for Russian Air Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Su-34: half-hundred advanced tactical bombers already in service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
New MiGs for Russian armed forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Defence Ministry taking delivery of second Tu-214ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Landing on motorway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Cadets learning to fly Ansat-U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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New Sukhoi jets from Amur shores for Russian Air Force
Yuri Kabernik
Yuri Kabernik
A handover ceremony for new aircraft took place at the Sukhoi companys
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant on
10 October 2014, the day of united new
materiel handover regularly held now by
the Russian Defence Ministry. Another
batch of warplanes delivered included three Su-35S supermanoeuvrable
single-seat multirole fighters and two
Su-30M2 multirole twin-seaters. They
were delivered to two fighter regiments
in the Russian Far East.
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MEANS TO WIN
Commander-in-Chief Lt.-Gen.
Victor Bondarev, the plans for
2014 stipulate the manufacture
of 1618 Su-34 more. The 2008
contract for 32 aircraft was fulfilled last autumn, and the plant
got down to fulfilling a new order
for 92 Su-34s until 2020, placed
by Sukhoi in February 2012 the
deal unprecedented in terms of
volume and cost.
In October 2013, the delivery
of the 24th Su-34 to Voronezh
finalised the activation of two air
squadrons there, designed for
conversion to the type. The follow-on aircraft were earmarked
for a next unit, the bomber air
regiment at Morozovsk AFB in
the Rostov Region. The first nine
Su-34s were brought there in
November and December 2013,
including the first two made under
the new 2012 deal.
Six more aircraft of the type
were ferried to Morozovsk AFB in
June and July 2014. The October
delivery of the next six bombers
has brought the number of Su-34s
in the regiments fleet to 21. The
Morozovsk-stationed regiment
shall have completed its conversion to the type by year-end and
will be followed by other RusAF
units still operating the previousgeneration Su-24M.
Ilya Soloviev
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Evgeny Volkov
ning for production of advanced aircraft, e.g. the MiG-35S, said Deputy
Defence Minister Yuri Borisov.
The MiG-35S is slated for delivery
to the Air Force after 2016. Therefore,
a decision has been made to buy a
batch of MiG-29SMTs now as a quick
fix to maintain the combat readiness of
RusAFs light fighter fleet.
MiG Director General Sergei
Korotkov reminded that the company
continued the MiG-29K/KUB multirole fighters delivery to the Russian
Defence Ministry. The first four aircraft
of the type were manufactured and
delivered last year. According to Sergei
Korotkov, his corporation is to deliver
the next 10 MiG-29K/KUB fighters
to the air arm of the Russian Navy
before year-end. The contract for
24 MiG-29K/KUB fighters intended
for the Russian Navy is to be fulfilled
in 2015.
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Dmitry Pichugin
Dmitry Pichugin
Landing on motorway
Ruslan Denisov
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flying the Ansat-U trainer helicopter that has been supplied to the
Russian Defence Ministry by Kazan
Helicopters (a subsidiary of Russian
Helicopters holding) since 2009,
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Yuri Kabernik
Su-35S
On 10 October 2014, the common day of materiel acceptance by the Russian
Defence Ministry, the Sukhoi company delivered three more Su-35S supermanoeuvrable multirole fighters to the Russian Air Force at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Aircraft Plant. Thus, as many as 25 out of the 48 aircraft of the type stipulated by
the contract landed in 2009 have been fielded with combat units. An air squadron
of the 23rd Fighter Air Regiment stationed at Dzyomgi AFB in the Khabarovsk
Territory converted to the type in February 2014, and four Su-35S fighters were
ferried to the Air Force Training and Operational Evaluation Centre in the city of
Lipetsk in late May 2014. Here they are used by the centres personnel to test new
tactics being developed for the advanced fighter and also will be used for the training of the flying and ground crews of RusAF combat units converting to the type.
The Su-35S single-seat supermanoeuvrable
multirole fighter is the summit of the evolution
of the Su-27 fourth-generation aircraft family. The Su-35Ss development involved a wide
range of solutions and technologies used under
the PAK FA (T-50) fifth-generation fighter
development programme. Therefore, despite its
outward similarity to the ubiquitous Su-27 and
Su-30, the Su-35S is rightfully regarded as an
aircraft featuring radically advanced capabilities,
which attributes it to Generation 4++.
The advanced fighters features setting it
apart from the rest of the Su-27 family are
the latest avionics suite that is based on a
digital information management system and
the advanced Tikhomirov-NIIP Irbis electronically scanned radar. The latter enjoys the
unique aerial target acquisition range and a
beefed-up simultaneous multiple-target tracking and engagement capability (tracking 30 and
engaging eight aerial targets or tracking four
and engaging two ground targets).
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The flight tests have proven the basic characteristics of the latest electronically scanned
radar, with most of the latters operating modes
having been tested. In particular, test sorties
have proven the unique ability of the Irbis to
acquire threats at a range of more than 400 km.
The avionics suite of the Su-35S also incorporates an advanced IRST from the Precision
Instrument Systems scientific and production
company, up-to-date navigation and communication systems and a sophisticated defensive
aids suite comprising missile warning and
laser warning gear in addition to the traditional radar warning receiver and electronic
countermeasures system. The cockpit management system comprises two 15-inch colour
multifunction liquid-crystal displays and a
large head-up display.
The fighter is powered by a pair of advanced
enhanced-thrust 14,500-hp extended-life 117S
thrust vector control engines developed by
the Lyulka Scientific and Technical Centre
Andrey FOMIN
and produced by UMPO JSC. This, coupled with advanced operating algorithms of
the integrated aircraft control system, allows
supermanoeuvrability in dogfight. Compared
to the Su-27, the Su-35S features an increased
internal fuel capacity, the mid-air refueling
system and drop tanks.
The weapons suite is comprised of both the
in-service smart and dumb air-launched weapons and their modernised variants, with drastically innovative missiles and smart bombs to be
carried further down the line.
The first two Su-35 prototypes (in export
version) started their flight trials in 2008, and
August 2009 saw the Sukhoi company and
Russian Defence Ministry clinch a long-term
deal for a 48-ship Su-35S batch to be delivered prior to 2015.
The first four production-standard Su-35S
fighters were made by Sukhois Komsomolskon-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAZ) and delivered between May 2011 and March 2012. They
have been undergoing the official tests at the
Defence Ministry State Flight Test Centre in
Akhtubinsk since 2011. Then in December
2012, the Defence Ministry took delivery of
six more production standard aircraft designed
for the test programme and, that completed,
for the conversion of the air crews of RusAF
combat units at the training and opeval centre in Lipetsk. The planes were ferried from
Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Akhtubinsk during
January through February 2013.
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The Su-35S programme features the productionising and official trials of the fighter ran
concurrently for the first time. Certain modifications to the early production-standard aircraft
based on the results produced by the tests were
the unavoidable consequence of that sort of a
payback for haste. Therefore, before fielding the
aircraft, built in 2012, with the Lipetsk unit, they
had had to be modified by the manufacturer
using the latest documentation, under which
12 Su-35S aircraft, earmarked for delivery to
an Air Force fighter air regiment, were made in
Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
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Yuri Kabernik
Sergey Chaikovsky
Sergei Sergeyev
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Mi-28NE
Andrey FOMIN
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Rostvertol made the first batch of exportdesigned Mi-28NE helicopters this summer.
Three of them complete and given the
characteristic desert camouflage paintjob,
but lacking the insignia and side numbers
could be seen during the celebration of the
manufacturers 75th anniversary on 1 July
2014. One of the aircraft was shown at a static
display dedicated to Rostvertols jubilee,
another could be easily spotted at the airfield
and yet another was in the final assembly hall
among other complete products.
Following the factory flight tests in late
August 2014, the machines were partially
disassembled and brought to Rostov-onDons airport for delivery to the customer
by an An-124 Ruslan heavy-lift transport
aircraft. The airlift took place on 28 August,
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One of the first export version Mi-28NE helicopters at the assembly hall of Rostvertol
plant during the companys 75-years jubilee
celebration, Rostov-on-Don, 1 July 2014
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Andrey FOMIN
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Alexander Popov
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Maiden flight
Delivery
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XA-IJR
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XA-ABM
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ALEXANDER RUBTSOV:
IFCs Chinese Focus
The deterioration of the geopolitical situation due to the development in Ukraine
as well as the US and EU sanctions slapped on a number of Russian banks makes
Russian businessmen step up cooperation with other major partners, among
which companies and financial institutions of the Peoples Republic of China hold
a strong foothold. While the cooperation between Russias aircraft industry and
China was previously limited mostly to supply of combat aircraft, helicopters and
aircraft engines, now commercial aircraft programmes are coming out into the
foreground, providing for not only complete product delivery, but also advanced
airliner co-development and co-production and large-scale cooperation with
Chinese banks and leasing companies. In the run-up to Airshow China 2014 in
Zhuhai, Take-off has turned to Alexander Rubtsov, Director General of the Ilyushin
Finance Co. (IFC), a major Russian leasing company specialising in supply of up-todate Russian- and foreign-made aircraft on the domestic and foreign markets, for
his take on the prospect of cooperation with Chinese partners.
Mr. Rubtsov, probably, Russian business
has been taking more interest in China due to
the recent developments
Certainly. Given the situation, in which
most of major Russian banks, cut off from
the global market with the US and EU
sanctions, China becomes a key financial
market. Therefore, today most of the Russian
banks and leasing companies are staking on
Southeast Asia, particularly, China. I guess,
the number of meetings between the leaders
of Russian banks and leasing companies and
their Chinese partners will have increased by
several time in the coming several months:
the Russians need to find out the feasibility
of getting alternative financing of the aircraft
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Prospective engine
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modynamic parameters were completed, and in July, the third test stage
took place, which included, among
other things, the engines first burn in
the takeoff mode.
By early this year, the second
engine demonstrator (c/n 100-03)
had been prepared for trials. Its rig
test kicked off in January 2014.
By the MFD 2014 forum, the third
engine (c/n 100-04) had been in the
final stages of assembly and preparations for tests, with the two engine
demonstrators having logged a total
of around 100 hours.
Later this year, Aviadvigatel will
assemble and furnish for testing at
least two more PD-14 prototypes
100-05 (the first one with the fixed
design) and 100-06. Both will be
used as part of the certification tests.
Overall, 22 prototypes, including four
flying ones for MC-21 planes, are
planned for manufacture.
The PD-14 is slated to begin its
flight tests on the Il-76LL flying testbed in February 2015. The aircraft will
carry the engine c/n 100-07.
The engines certification under
the Russian standards is supposed
to be complete by April 2017, when
Aviadvigatel expects the IAC Aircraft
Register to issue the type certificate.
The flight tests of two PD-14s as part
of the powerplant of the MC-21-300
prototype are slated for July 2017,
while EASA is expected to issue its
type certificate in April 2018.
Andrey Fomin
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The first flight of the fourth flying prototype of the advanced Mil
Mi-38 medium transport helicopter
took place in Kazan, at the airfield
of Kazan Helicopters, a subsidiary
of the Russian Helicopters holding company, on 16 October 2014.
The fourth prototype (OP-4) with
side number 38014 was made in the
Mi-38-2 variant powered by advanced
Russian-developed Klimov TV7-117V
turboshafts. Unlike the previous Mi-38
prototypes, OP-4 features enlarged
windows and an advanced shockprotected fuel system. The machine
is being considered as the standard
for future production Mi-38s. OP-4s
first hover was performed in Kazan
by the crew consisting of Honoured
Test Pilot Vladimir Kutanin (pilot),
Maxim Shezhin (co-pilot) and Sergei
Panin (test engineer). The aircraft will
undergo further tests at the flight test
facility of the Mil Helicopter Plant in
Tomilino, Moscow Region.
Earlier this year, the trials of the
first Mi-38 prototype (OP-1) converted to the Mi-38-2 variant commenced in Tomilino. As is known,
during the first phase of the flight test
programme, which had been under
way since 2003 in Kazan and then in
Russian Helicopters
the Moscow Region, the OP-1 prototype was powered by Pratt & Whitney
Canada XPW127/5 experimental
engines. The prototypes conversion
to the domestic powerplant consisting two TV7-117V turboshafts and
upgraded powertrain and their debugging on board the helicopter kicked
off in 2011. At the same time, Kazan
Helicopters manufactured the third
Mi-38 prototype, the Mi-38-2 (OP-3),
powered by a pair of TV7-117Vs
too. Its flight tests in Tomilino commenced in November 2013, and the
upgraded Mi-38-2 (OP-1) flew there
in April this year. Mention should be
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Beriev company
The Beriev company is productionising the Be-200 amphibian aircraft that used to be in production
by the Irkut corporations aircraft
plant in Irkutsk. Previously, two
prototype and seven productionstandard amphibians of the type
have been manufactured in Irkutsk,
of which six are in service with the
air arm of the Russian Emergencies
Ministry (the two latest were fitted with relevant gear and delivered in November 2011 by Beriev)
and one was delivered to the Azeri
Emergencies Ministrys air branch
in 2008.
In May 2011, the Russian government ordered six Be-200ChS
amphibians from Beriev for the
Emergencies Ministry and in May
2013 six more for the Defence
Ministry (two Be-200ChS fire-fight-
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Late August 2014 saw the beginning of the flight tests of the first
prototype of the heavily upgraded
Mi-171A2 (OP-1) helicopter at the
flight test facility in Tomilino, Moscow
Region, operated by the Mil Helicopter
Plant, a subsidiary of the Russian
Helicopters holding company.
The Russian Helicopters management approved the Mi-8/17 heavy
upgrade programme, initially dubbed
Mi-171M, in March 2011. The new
machine was derived from the UlanUde Aviation Plant-made Mi-171A1
multipurpose medium transport/passenger helicopter certificated by the
Aviation Registry of the Interstate
Aviation Committee (IAC) and the
Brazilian aviation authorities. Hence,
the upgrade was designated as
Mi-171A2. The upgrade programmes
key objectives are a sharp improvement in operating characteristics and
a reduction in its maintenance and
flying cost per hour. The Mi-171A2
is expected to become the baseline production-standard commercial
model of the most popular helicopter
family further down the line.
Several components of the helicopter were upgraded at the same time.
Firstly, the machine was given an
advanced powerplant, rotor system
and powertrain. The Mi-171A2 will
be fitted with latest VK-2500PS-03
turboshaft engines from Klimov JSC
in St. Petersburg (a subsidiary of the
United Engine Corporation, itself a
subsidiary of Oboronprom JSC that
is part of the Rostec corporation).
The VK-2500PS-03 features an emergency power rating of 2,400 hp for
30 min and 2,700 hp for 2.5 min, as
well as an extended service life.
The advanced rotor system of the
Mi-171A2 includes an upgraded composite-blade main rotor, rotor hub
and swash plate. The helicopter is furnished with a beefed-up powertrain
and an X-shaped tail rotor. The novelties have increased the machines
cruising and maximum flight speed,
improved its operability and extended
the service lives of its units. In addition, provision has been made for
the introduction of the up-to-date
auxiliary power unit.
Another key line of the upgrade
is a drastic reshuffle of the avion-
Russian Helicopters
the main rotor thrust with a simultaneous directional control stability increase owing to the advanced
X-shaped tail rotor. During the trials,
the flying testbed produced a maximum speed of 300 km/h (the max
speed of the production-standard
Mi-171 is 250 km/h).
Early in 2012, the prototype-making facility of the National Helicopter
Industry Centre in Tomilino started
manufacturing the first Mi-171A2
prototype (OP-1), using the airframe
shipped by the Ulan-Ude Aviation
Plant. The OP-1 made its debut in
public in late August 2013 during the
MAKS 2013 air show in Zhukovsky.
This year it was used in the tests of
the KBO-17 avionics suite.
The assembly of the second
Mi-171A2 prototype, the OP-2, with
the use of another UUAP-supplied airframe is nearing its end in Tomilino.
The Mi-171A2 certification test
programme completion and IAC
Aviation Registry type certificate
release are slated for 2015. Then,
UUAP is to launch Mi-171A2 full-rate
production and delivery. Even now,
major helicopter operators both
domestic and foreign have displayed interest in the Mi-171A2.
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comprising the digital display system, control panels, airborne computer, satellite navigation system
and digital flight system. In addition,
the Mi-26T2s avionics incorporates
an up-to-date communications system and an airborne flight recorder
system.
Just like its baseline model, the
Mi-26T2 can haul outsize cargo and
vehicle weighing a total of 20 t
in the cargo hold or at the external sling. Its military version carries
82 troops and casevac variant airlifts
60 casualties. The machine can perform installation and construction
work of varying degrees of complexity, fire-fighting missions, quick fuel
delivery, self-contained refuelling of
vehicles on the ground, etc.
A Mi-26T2 prototype (tail number
901) was made by Rostvertol and
submitted for its flight trials early in
2011. To date, it has passed all of the
key phases of the trials and Mi-26T2
entered full-rate production.
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SATELLITE ELECTRONIC
COUNTERMEASURES EQUIPMENT
JSC 558 ARP is a leading
Belarusian enterprise, being one of
the few CIS enterprises rendering
such a wide range of services in
overhaul and upgrade of different
types of aircraft. By now, the plant has
overhauled more than 500 modern
combat aircraft and helicopters.
Employing highly qualified
specialists and using production
facilities of the plant, modern methods
of work organisation and labour
management, today the enterprise
performs overhaul and upgrade of
Su-22, Su-25, Su-27, Su-30, MiG-29
combat aircraft, An-2 biplane as well
as i-8 (i-17) and i-24 (i-35)
helicopters.
In addition, the enterprise is
engaged in developing its own military
machinery and equipment. Presently,
one of the advanced products of
JSC 558 ARP which successfully
passed tests at the plant and on the
customers territory is SATELLITE
ECM equipment.
SATELLITE is an airborne
equipment of individual electronic
protection of the aircraft against high
precision radar guided weapons.
The principle of equipment
operation is based on creation of
interference to angular channels of
radar weapon control means (similar
Western systems are known as
Cross-Eye). The main advantages
of SATELLITE equipment are
the following: it eliminates with
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The Phazotron-NIIR corporation is
known throughout the world for its fire
control radars designed for MiG fighters.
The MiGs in service with the air forces
of more than 30 countries are fitted
with its radars. Zhuk-ME radar variants,
which fit the advanced MiG-29SMT,
MiG-29K/KUB, MiG-29M/M2 and IAFs
upgraded MiG-29UPG fighters, are in
full-rate production. Development and
tests of the AESA radar designed for the
MiG-35 and for upgrade of in-service
MiG-29 versions are underway.
Recently, Phazotron-NIIR has placed
heavier emphasis on heliborne radars
as part of its production programme.
Corporation has completed the trials
and launched full-scale production of
the FH01 radar systems designed to
equip the RusAFs Kamov Ka-52 combat
helicopters and launched its deliveries
of late. In addition, the FHA radar
intended for upgrade of the Navys Ka-27
helicopters is in trials. In the run-up to
the Zhuhai air show, Take-off met with
Phazotron-NIIR General Designer Yuri
Guskov and asked him to describe the
companys cooperation with the PRC
and its new programmes that could be
offered to Chinese partners.
YURI GUSKOV:
Mr. Guskov, we are speaking in the run-up
to the Air Show China 2014. Your company
is known to have maintained long-time
cooperation with the PRC. Could you tell us
about its results and prospects?
Indeed,
Phazotron-NIIRs
close
cooperation with major Chinese research
institutes specialising in radar technology has
been under way for as many as 20 years. It dates
back to 1992, when the PRC decided to buy
several Zhuk-8-II radars from us to use them
on upgraded Chinese-made Shenyang F-8-II
fighters. In 1993, we made and delivered
several sets of the more advanced Zhemchug
(Pearl) slotted-array radar to the National
Research Institute of Electronic Technology
(NRIET) in Nanjing. The radar had been
heavily test-flown both in Russia on board a
MiG-29 testbed and then in the PRC. Later,
our Nanjing partners developed their own
radars with the use of the experience gained
and indigenous electronic componentry and
employed them on board Chinese fighters
(Chengdu J-10, Shenyang J-11B, etc.) being
in production now.
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Piotr Butowski
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We pursued similar cooperation with
another Chinese radar research institute,
the China Leihua Electronic Technology
Research Institute (LETRI) in Wuxi. Its
staff essentially learnt from us development
of small slotted-array radars similar to our
Kopyo (Spear) radar. Later, indigenous
radar was developed in Wuxi, which fits
the Chengdu FC-1 (JF-17) fighters being
supplied to the Pakistani Air Force now.
Yevgeny Yerokhin
Phasotron-NIIR Corp.
dules
3D-technology T-R mo
ar
for advanced AESA rad
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Vyacheslav BOGUSLAYEV,
President, MOTOR SICH JSC
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CHINESE
VECTOR
OF MOTOR SICH
The I-450-S two-shaft auxiliary
power unit (APU) was developed by
Motor Sich JSC for various versions
of the An-148 airliner and other passenger and transport aircraft powered by D-436 family turbofans. This
APU ensures starting of the main
engines and supply of compressed
An-148
D-436-148
commercial
industry | company
electrical stating systems) are the
versions of the V3-117V-SB1V
engine designed for re-engining the
earlier manufactured helicopters of
the Mi-8T type aimed at improvement of their performance especially
when operating under conditions of
hot climate and high-elevation fields.
The engines maintain the power at
higher ambient air temperatures, airfield and flight altitudes as compared
with the TV2-117 engines that are
powering the Mi-8T helicopters now.
We are working also on development of the I-450 and I-4501
turboshaft engines having takeoff power of 400 hp and 465 hp
respectively. They are designed for
re-engining of the Mi-2 helicopters
manufactured earlier, where they
will replace the GTD-350 engines.
In parallel we are developing turboprop versions named I-450S and
I-450S-2 having takeoff power of
400 and 750 hp respectively. They
are designed to power the general
aviation and training airplanes. At
present, the I-450SV engine is
under the bench testing.
In April 2013, at the AERO
Friedrichshafen international airshow in Germany a mockup of the
I-450S engine was demonstrated
as a part of the DA50 TURBINE
five-seat single-engine airplane of
the well-known Austrian company
DIAMOND AI. The I-450S-2 engine
is designed to power the EV-55
Czech twin-engine multipurpose
airplane.
Considering change in the world
helicopter market, our company is
working on development of family of the MS-500V new generation turboshaft engines in class
of 600 to 1,050 hp takeoff power
designed for installation on the helicopters of various purposes having
take off weight of 3.5 to 6 tons.
The S-500V was successfully
tested in the CIAMs environmental chamber and on 19 May 2014
obtained the Type Certificate issued
by the IAC Aviation Register.
The largest helicopter engine manufactured by MOTOR SICH JSC is the
D-136 turboshaft engine developed
on the basis of gas generator of the
D-36 turbofan. It provides for maximum takeoff power of 11,400 hp
(at 15) and has no competitors
in the world by this parameter and
its efficiency. The D-136 engine is
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installed on the worlds heaviest helicopter, Mil Mi-26 and its versions.
Several helicopters of this type are
operated successfully in PRC.
The designers of IvchenkoProgress SE developed a project
for upgrading of the D-136 engine,
which will be implemented jointly with MOTOR SICH JSC. New
engine designated as D-136-2 provides maximum takeoff power of
11,500 hp, which is maintained at
a temperature of 40. In addition,
Mi-2MSB
AI-450
commercial
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Andrey Morgunov
cosmonautics | event
Igor AFANASYEV,
Dmitry VORONTSOV
ANGARAS
FIRST BLASTOFF
At 16.04 hrs Moscow time on 9 July 2014, the Plesetsk space launch centre saw
the first launch of the Angara-1.2PP launch vehicle of the advanced space rocket
family being developed by the Khrunichev state space research and production
centre. The maiden blastoff conducted as part of the Angara flight test programme
was aimed at testing the solutions embodied in the design of the URM-1 and URM-2
versatile rocket modules and the Angaras launch and technical facilities as well.
In this connection, orbiting an actual spacecraft had not been considered, with
an inseparable full-scale mock-up used as payload. The flight was suborbital to
prevent cluttering near-Earth orbit with space junk.
To say the Angaras first launch had been
anticipated for a long time would be an
understatement: it was slated for 2005 under
an executive order issued by the Russian
President in January 1995. However, the
development hit numerous snags, including
inadequate funding, design revision due to
political and technological factors, the market
situation, launching facility reconstruction
problems and notorious financial and
economic crises.
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Igor Marinin
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cosmonautics | event
Dmitry Vorontsov
10 m
Angara
1.2PP
Angara
1.2
Angara-3
with Breeze-M
upper stage
Angara-5
with KVTK
upper stage
Angara-5.2
with PTK NP
spaceship
Angara-7
with KVTK upper
stage-7
Basic characteristics of Angara family LVs when launched from Plesetsk space launch centre
Characteristics
Launching weight, t
First stage
Second stage
Third stage
Payload weight, t:
- in parking orbit (H=200 km, i=63)
- in geostationary transfer orbit
(H=5,500 km, i=25)
- in geostationary orbit
*
Angara-1.2
171
1xURM-1
1xURM-2m*
Angara-A3
481
2xURM-1
1xURM-1
1xURM-2
Angara-A5
773
4xURM-1
1xURM-1
1xURM-2
Angara-A7
1,133
6xURM-2
1xURM-1m**
3.8
14.6
24.5
35
3.61
2.42
7.53
5.42
12.54
2.01
1.02
4.63
3.02
7.64
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