Russian Aviation
Russia’s Aviastar aircraft factory will produce the first production Il-76MD transport aircraft this year and test fly it in February 2012, a management source in the plant said at the international MAKS airshow on Tuesday. The first two Il-76MDs will be delivered by 2013, “probably for the Russian Emergencies Minstry or Defense Ministry,” the manager said. The Russian Defense Ministry wants to buy up to 100 of the aircraft over ten ...
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Russia hopes to develop a new airborne warning and control system (AWACS) plane by 2016, Air Force chief Col. Gen Alexander Zelin said on Tuesday. “We are expecting to receive the A-100 aircraft built on the basis of the Il-476 transport plane with the PS-90 engine and extended flight range,” Zelin told reporters in Moscow. The new AWACS plane will have an advanced active phase array capable of detecting and ...
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Russia’s Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation fighter, also known as PAK-FA, will perform its first public flight at the MAKS-2011 air show near Moscow in August, Nikolai Zanegin, Deputy General Director of Russia’s Aviasalon company, said on Wednesday. “Numerous visitors will see the fifth-generation fighter in the sky for the first time ever at the air show,” Zanegin said in an interview with Russian magazine National Defense. The Sukhoi T-50 fighter is ...
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Russia’s Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA fifth-generation fighter has been placed on a short list of a South Korean tender for the delivery of advanced fighter jets, a Russian arms industry think-tank said on Monday. Korea is seeking to buy 60 fighters with advanced stealth capability from a foreign aircraft maker in the biggest arms-procurement deal ever for the country with an estimated budget of $7.86 billion under a program code-named FX-III. ...
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Russia’s Irkut aircraft holding is in talks with the Defense Ministry on the delivery of up to 40 Sukhoi Su-30 multirole fighters to the Russian Air Force, the company said on Monday. “We will sign a contract with the Defense Ministry next year,” Irkut President Alexei Fyodorov said. The contract stipulates the initial delivery of 28 fighter jets and the supply of an additional 12 aircraft as an option. The ...
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SuperJet International a joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica (a Finmeccanica Company) and Sukhoi Holding signed an order today with the Italian Blue Panorama Airlines for the purchase of 12 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft. Based on the list price, the agreement has an estimated value of USD 370 million. The deliveries of these SSJ100/95B aircraft will start at the end of 2012. The aircraft interiors will be provided by the ...
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Multipurpose fighter the Sukhoi Su-27 (Flanker) crashed near Vladivostok during a training flight. “According to preliminary data, the Su-27 crashed due to failure of one of the onboard systems”, said a source at the Russian Defense Ministry. The pilot managed to eject and landed successfully. The fighter crashed outside the village. There are no casualties or destruction on the ground there. The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee of ...
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When it comes to Russian aerospace products, conventional wisdom is: The equipment is good, the after-market is awful. Ask the Indian air force and its officials would emphatically agree. Sourcing of spares and consumables for its Russian-built aircraft and weapon systems has sunk to a new low for the IAF, with the government permitting it to issue multiple global tenders for spares across a range of systems. The move marks a ...
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Naval strike aircraft will be reassigned to the Russian Air Force by the end of 2011, a high-ranking Navy source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. “The strike component of naval aviation will be transferred under the control of the Russian Air Force by the end of the year,” the source said. Naval strike aircraft include Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers, MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors, Su-27 Flanker fighter jets, and Su-24 Fencer attack ...
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Russian flagship airline Aeroflot said on Wednesday it had signed a firm order to buy eight Boeing 777s, in line with earlier plans, partly to boost its fleet ahead of the Winter Olympics in 2014. The eight planes six Boeing 777-300s and two Boeing 777-200s have a ticket value of $2.17 billion according to Reuters data, although an industry source told Reuters the carrier had received a discount and would ...
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Russia’s arms industry looks to be the big loser from U.N. sanctions imposed on Moammar Gadhafi’s Libyan regime as it fights its own people for survival. Russia’s state-run arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, will lose $4 billion in prospective contracts for fighter jets and tanks because of the United Nations’ actions, said Sergei Chemezov, head of the state industrial holding Russian Technologies. Those deals stemmed mainly from a military spending spree that ...
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A second prototype of the Russian fifth-generation T-50 fighter successfully conducted its maiden flight on Thursday, the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer said. The T-50 fighter is being developed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia’s Far East. The first prototype made its maiden flight in January 2010 and has so far conducted over 40 tests. “The second prototype of the fifth-generation fighter conducted today ...
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South Korea is interested in purchasing military planes of Russia’s Sukhoi Company, the chairman of the defence and security committee at the Russian Federation Council upper house of parliament, Viktor Ozerov, told Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, in an exclusive interview on Thursday. Ozerov heads a delegation of Russian parliamentarians to South Korea. According to the senator, South Korea and Russia cooperate in the military-technical sphere, and the fact that Russian ...
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In its class, the Su-30 MKI has no competition. Those who tried – the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon – have failed. Ask the most experienced Su-30 pilots in the country. They’ll tell you why. Ashu and Parag Lall, who are flying the Su-30, said: “No other aircraft in the world can perform the yaw turn and the tail slide, or do a vertical climb at 80 degrees and ...
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