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№ 4. 2011

Three-sTar airshow

CONTENTS

4. 2011

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MAKS 2 011

Three-star airshow ..........................................2

Business

IFC doubles

An-158 order ....................................................6

Director General

Valeriy Stolnikov

Deputy Director General

Alexander Kiryanov

Viktor Zaharov

Commercial Director

Denis Kostin

Deputy Commercial Director

Vitaliy Galuschak

Marketing Director

Leonid Belyaev

Deputy Marketing Director

Evgeniy Abdrashitov

Sergey Burda

R epResentative office in s aint -p eteRsbuRg

Deputy Director General

Oleg Perevoschikov

Commercial Director

Sergey Baydak

Advertising Sales Director

Milana Nikolaeva

Development Director

Roman Moshnin

Development Manager

Dmitriy Koshalov

Marketing Director

Anna Ogneva

Editor

Denis Rebeka

Editor-in-Chief of A4 Press Publishing

Valeriy Stolnikov

Editor-in-Chief of AirFleet

Alexander Gudko

Editors

Mikhail Nayden

Alexander Velovich

Creative Director

Vladimir Bondarev

Art Director

Al'vina Kirillova

Designers

Alexander Cheredayko

Nadezhda Fadina

Aleksandr Strelyaev

Kirill Solomentsev

Anna Blokhina

Marketing Manager

Elena Kotenochkina

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Industry

MS-21: Irkut grows

a new milk caw ..............................................10

Navigation

Compas: priorities

of space navigation .....................................14

Avionics

''Omut'':

reliable radioelectronic

protection of aircraft. .................................20

Weapon

The best weapons,

the best cartridges .......................................26

Technology

World tendencies of EW

aerospace means development

and CNIRTI tasks .........................................30

Сommodity-Money-Commodity

Operation

“Russian Lease” ...............................................36

Aircraft

Airbus giant comes

for MAKS’2011 ............................................42

Air

The leader of Russian parachute

design and production ...............................46

maks 2011

Three-sTar

airshow

Boeing will demonstrate its Dreamliner at MAKS-2011, RBC Daily reports.

Nearly 2000 responses to poll run by FlightGlobal. 33% Highly-exportable fifth-generation fighter.

34% Perfect for Russia’s own requirements. 33% Yesterday’s technology tomorrow.

maks 2011

A lot of hope is put in the new

Sukhoi aircraft

Firstly, it must be the major type in ser-

vice with the Russian air force’s Frontal Avi-

ation units: the service has a requirement for

250-300 new-generation tactical fighters.

Secondly, it must provide a base for cre-

ation of a joint Indo-Russian joint product.

New Delhi refers to it as the Fifth-Genera-

tion Fighter Aircraft (FGFA). The Indian air

force is looking for 200-250 such aircraft.

Thirdly, it should bolster Russian exports.

Although PAKFA itself may not sell in large

numbers in the open market, it must support

a good image of the Russian aeronautics

engineering in the eyes of potential and tra-

ditional buyers of Russian equipment. The

Indo-Russian FGFA is likely to set standards

for PAKFA’s exportable versions. A number

of smaller countries tend to buy from Russia

what Moscow has previously sold to India,

in a hope that this would facilitate spare

parts and maintenance issues.

As reported by CEO of MAKS-2011

show, Vladimir Borisov, 793 companies

will take part in the show in 2011 (735

companies from 34 countries took part

in it in 2009). According to Borisov, the

show will occupy an area of 50 hectares,

the exhibition area will be 36 000 square

kilometers.

The main guests of the show are the Rus-

sian manufacturers, but the world’s lead-

ers Airbus and Boeing have significantly

increased their presence at MAKS during

last years. However, they have decided

to bring their novelties in Russia only this

year. Acording to Borisov, A380 will ar-

rive on August 14th (it has visited Russia

only once making a short stop in Domod-

edovo in 2009). The liner will be perform-

ing daily flights and will be opened for at-

tendance every day for a few hours. It will

depart from the show on August 21st. As

reported by the Airbus’ Moscow represen-

tative office, the Russian airlines are not

ready to acquire the jet.

Another show’s sensation is Boeing

787. According to Vladimir Borisov, Boe-

ing has requested servicing of Dreamlin-

er for two days — August 16th and 17th.

«The liner will be presented only on stat-

ic display and will not be performing

any flights. It will depart from MAKS on

Wednesday», — Borisov noted. Accord-

ing to a source, the presented Dreamlin-

er will be a test one without interior; it will

make a stop in Moscow on its way to Ja-

pan, where its testing will be continued.

The head of Boeing International, Shep-

pard Hill, have spoken about the possibil-

ity of Dreamliner’s arrival at Moscow ear-

lier. The Boeing’s Moscow representative

office has denied any comments on this in-

formation.

With the maiden flight, on 29 January

this year, of the T50-1, a first operable

prototype of Sukhoi’s PAKFA (Russian ac-

ronym for Future Complex of Frontal Avi-

ation), Russia has become the second na-

tion after US to have flown a fifth-genera-

tion fighter.

So far, USAAF has been world’s only

air force to operate fifth generation fight-

ers: the F-22A Raptor became operation-

al in 2005.

sometime ago (in 2007, to be precise), the

maiden flight on 29 January 2010 drew

close attention of many people round the

world. The event was widely featured in the

mass media. For many people the pictures

shown on TV and published in the maga-

zines brought a big revelation, since the

PAKFA had been much featured before, but

its actual outward appearance was made

public only now.

The first flight originated from the aero-

drome of the Komsomolsk-upon-Amur Air-

craft Production Association (KnAAPO),

where the airplane was assembled, and

lasted 47 minutes. Upon landing, Sukhoi

test-pilot Sergei Bogdan reported that the

airplane handled well and was a pleasure

to fly. Congratulating Sukhoi and KnAAPO

on this occasion, Russian PM Vladimir Putin

said a batch of such aircraft will go to the

Russian air force’s Center for Combat Us-

age and Personnel Retraining in Lipetsk in

2013. He further said that deliveries to the

RusAF line units shall commence in 2015.

So far there have been two PAKFA pub-

lic flight performances, on 17 June and 31

August, both at Ramenskoye aerodrome

near Moscow. On the first occasion the air-

plane with number 51 on its sides was dem-

onstrated to Vladimir Putin. The Russian PM

paid a visit to LII, the Flight Test and Re-

search Institute named after Mikhail Gro-

mov. He came in company of a hundred

carefully selected Russian journalists. This

happened after the airplane changed its

base from KnAAPO’s aerodrome to that of

LII in Zhukovsky near Moscow (that hap-

pened in early April).

Speaking to journalist on 17 June, Pu-

tin said a total of about 30 billion Roubles

(which exchanges for roughly Euro 1 bil-

lion) was already spent on the project. He

added that “a similar amount” is to be add-

ed to the top of that. Putin further said a se-

ries aircraft will cost Moscow 2.5 - 3 times

less than Washington paid for a series F-

22A Raptor. “Taking account of a better

quality - and we will, certainly, try to get

that better quality – our product shall give

us a serious competitive advantage”, the

Russian PM stressed. Over two thousand

more flights shall be performed on PAK-

FA prototypes in frame of the type’s trials

Fifth-Generation Fighter Aircraft

The very designation “Fifth-Generation

Fighter Aircraft” (FGFA) was invented by

New Delhi, and is used today to point at

the PAKFA’s Indian air force version. Mos-

cow and New Delhi have been talking

about joining forces on this project for over

five years. Anatoly Isaikin, general director

with Russia’s state arms vendor, thus sum-

marized the whole story: “Russia has so far

received proposals to cooperate on joint

development of fifth-generation weapons

systems from India only. The Indian initia-

tive was met positively. Now, Russia and In-

dia are working together on the Fifth-Gen-

eration Fighter Aircraft and the Multirole

Transport Aircraft.” In an interview with the

Russian media, Raj Kumar Singh, Secretary,

defense production, ministry of defense,

government of India, presented this view

on the subject: “The FGFA is a joint devel-

opment project in which we will see Indian

and Russian designers and engineers work-

ing side-by-side from beginning until its

completion. The FGFA will be a joint prod-

uct whose intellectual property rights will be

held fully and equally by both parties”.

Although it had been widely known that

construction of PAKFA prototypes started

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