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november 2008 Special edition for Airshow China 2008
& IndoDefence/IndoAerospace 2008
SUKHOI
FIGHTERS
on Asian
on Asian
market
Su-35
programme
progress
[p.22]
Su-35
market
[p.18]
Tikhomirov-NIIP
Tikhomirov-NIIP
from phased array
to AESA
[p.38]
Air Launch
for Russia
and Indonesia
[p.46]
Air Launch
MiG-29K
MiG-29K
again at Nitka
[p.28]
New Russian airborne weapons [p.10, 26]
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november 2008
Editor-in-Chief
Andrey Fomin
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Vladimir Shcherbakov
Editor
Yevgeny Yerokhin
Columnist
Alexander Velovich
Dear reader,
Special correspondents
Alexey Mikheyev, Vladimir Karnozov,
Victor Drushlyakov, Andrey Zinchuk, Valery Ageyev,
Alina Chernoivanova, Natalya Pechorina,
Marina Lystseva, Dmirty Pichugin, Sergey Krivchikov,
Sergey Popsuyevich, Piotr Butowski,
Alexander Mladenov, Miroslav Gyurosi
Design and pre-press
Grigory Butrin
Web support
Georgy Fedoseyev
Translation
Yevgeny Ozhogin
Cover picture
Alexey Mikheyev
You are holding another issue of the Take-Off magazine – a special
supplement to Russian national aerospace magazine VZLET. The
issue has been timed with Airshow China 2008 and IndoDefence/
IndoAerospace 2008.
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 dozen and a half years. As a result, China
has become a top importer of Russian aircraft, first and foremost, Sukhoi
jets. Today, the Russian-made Sukhoi Su-27SK/UBK and Su-30MKK
fighters have been the mainstay of PLAAF’s new-generation fighter fleet
while two dozens Su-30MK2s serve with PLANAF. Moreover, China’s
own aerospace plants have mastered Su-27SK’s licence production.
Engine 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). Russian experts consult their Chinese counterparts
developing new aircraft, e.g. latest Chinese trainer L-15, to power which
an advanced Ukrainian-Russian AI-222 turbofan engine afterburner
version is intended.
However, the Russian-Chinese cooperation does not limit itself
to combat planes. China operates Russian-made Mil Mi-8 and
Mi-17/Mi-171 helicopters and Ilyushin Il-76 freighters on a large scale, with
Beriev Be-103 light multipurpose amphibians and Tupolev Tu-204-120CE
freighters to start arriving to Chinese buyers soon. The cooperation has
been on the rise, with new contracts for combat and commercial aircraft
could be placed in the future.
Another country in the region, Indonesia, has become an important
Russia’s partner in the field of aerospace cooperation. Indonesia has
already bought four Sukhoi fighters and a batch of Mil Mi-35 helicopters
with new deliveries of six Su-30MK2 and Su-27SKM jets are expected in
2008 and 2009. Moreover, Russia and Indonesia have established a joint
venture aimed at implementation of the unique Air Launch aerospace
programme. Russian-Ukrainian Antonov An-124-100 transport plane
will take-off from Indonesia’s airfield at Biak island to airdrop at a height
of 10 km a new Russian space launch vehicle to orbit satellites for
customers in Indonesia and other countries.
All these themes became the main topics of this issue. As usual, you
are also getting news on the other key events in the Russian and CIS
aerospace fields over the past couple of months. I hope the materials
will come in handy for you to have a better grasp of the large Russian
expositions at the Zhuhai and Jakarta shows and keep abreast of the
latest development in Russia’s aviation and space exploration fields.
I wish all participants and guests of Airshow China 2008 and
IndoDefence/IndoAerospace 2008 to meet new partners, establish
useful links and snag lucrative contracts. See you at new air shows!
Publisher
Director General
Andrey Fomin
Deputy Director General
Nadezhda Kashirina
Marketing Director
George Smirnov
Director for international projects
Alexander Velovich
News items for “In Brief” columns are prepared by editorial
staff based on reports of our special correspondents, press
releases of production companies as well as by using information
distributed by ITAR-TASS, ARMS-TASS, Interfax-AVN, RIA Novosti,
RBC news agencies and published at www.aviaport.ru, www.avia.ru,
www.gazeta.ru, www.cosmoworld.ru web sites
Items in the magazine placed on this colour background or supplied
with a note “Commercial” are published on a commercial basis.
Editorial staff does not bear responsibility for the contents of such items.
The magazine is registered by the Federal Service for supervision of
observation of legislation in the sphere of mass media and protection
of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation. Registration certificate
PI FS77-19017 dated 29 November 2004
© Aeromedia, 2008
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Andrey Fomin
Editor-in-chief
Take-Off magazine
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contents
More Tu-204-300 and A320 for Vladivostok Avia
Beefing up Red Wings’ fleet
Another Tu-214 built
Aeroflot-Cargo gearing up for getting Il-96-400T
Aeroflot kicks off discarding its Tu-154 fleet
November 2008
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JDAM and JSOW а la russe
diversified company specialising in developing and manufacturing close-in battle weapons for the Army
and aerial weapons for the Air Force, held a presentation, during which the company’s leaders shed
some light on weapons systems under development. Bazalt Director General Vladimir Korenkov said that
the company was completing the development of several cutting-edge air-launched precision-guided
weapons systems expected soon to start fielding with the Russian Air Force and being sold abroad
in addition to rocket launchers, mortar bombs, hand grenades and self-propelled gun rounds well
known abroad, as well as unguided aerial weapons of all types long and widely employed by RusAF.
The novelties in question include, in the first place, the advanced PBK-500U commonised gliding
cluster-bomb unit (CBU) with homing submunitions and a special set of glide-and-guide range-extension
modules to fit production gravity bombs. The development of the two systems is a kind of response
of Russian designers to the US development of the JSOW gliding CBU and a series of JDAM smart
bombs already in the inventory of the US Air Force, US Navy’s air arm and a number of other militaries.
Take-off’s correspondent Yevgeny Yerokhin attended Bazalt’s presentation
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Beriev and Vega carry on with AEW systems
Mi-171 for Mongolian military
Ka-226T throws its hat into Indian tender ring
IFC increases Russian airliner exports to Latin America
Russian-German JV gets first order for A320 conversion
First Ukrainian An-148 delivered
Il-114-100 finds new buyers
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Sukhoi fighters on Asian market
According to the annual arms output rating of Russia’s major defence manufacturers published by the
Russian independent Centre of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies last year, the Sukhoi company
ranked first in 2007, having more than doubled its income. Its proceeds exceeded $1.9 billion last year,
which accounted for almost half the gross revenue of the United Aircraft Corporation. Sukhoi produced
such high production and sales results owing to its export success in the first place, with customers
$1.35 billion, totalling almost a quarter of the aggregate revenue earned from all Russian weaponry
exports that year. More than half of the Sukhoi aircraft exported last year went to Asian countries. The
Asian market remains key to Sukhoi that has clinched deals to deliver upwards of 550 Sukhoi fighters
to the region, of which more than 350 have been delivered. This is the lion’s share of the Sukhoi aircraft
exported after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which makes the Asian market especially important
to the company
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Su-35: two prototypes under tests!
Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia’s Far East, on 2 October 2008, controlled by the Sukhoi design bureau’s
test pilot Sergey Bogdan, an Honoured Test Pilot of the Russian Federation. The mission lasted about
an hour. Sergey Bogdan tested the operation of fighter’s powerplant and fly-by-wire system in various
modes, examined its stability and controllability and became completely satisfied with the aircraft’s
performance. It means that already two Su-35 prototypes are undergoing flight tests now with the third
one to join them soon. The first Su-35 aircraft made its maiden flight earlier this year, on 19 February,
and have successfully fulfilled more than 40 test sorties by the beginning of October. Joining the
second flying prototype to flight test programme enables to fasten Su-35’s testing process that is to be
completed in a couple of years. According to Sukhoi, the full-rate production of the cutting-edge 4++
generation fighter and its deliveries to both domestic and foreign users are slated for 2011. “The Su-35
entering service will bolster the national defence capability and enable Sukhoi to remain competitive on
the global market until its fifth-generation fighter becomes ready for deliveries”, Sukhoi’s press release
emphasises. Andrey Fomin analyses Su-35 programme progress
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contents
New weapons for advanced Sukhoi fighters
In early June, the Tactical Missiles Corp. launched a campaign to promote a number of latest air-launched
guided missiles on the market. The weapons promoted include the new-generation Kh-38ME air-launched
modular guided missile and several heavy upgrades, including the Kh-58UShKE antiradiation missile
self-contained target area recognition capability and KAB-1500LG-F-E laser beam-riding smart bomb. All
these weapons will be incorporated in Su-35’s weapon suite being available for other new Russia’s combat
aircraft as well. Yevgeny Yerokhin reviews the new Tactical Missiles Corp's weapons
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MiG-29K back at Nitka
Vikramaditya’s arresting gear kicks off trials in Crimea
to fit the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, with the Sevmash company in Severodvinsk working on it under the
Russian-Indian Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier overhaul and upgrade contract on order by the Indian Navy.
The MiG-29K prototype serialled 312 had arrived from Russia to test the first arresting gear at the Nitka facility
in the Crimea-based Saki airbase. A Take-off correspondent Victor Drushlyakov covered the tests
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IFC orders large batch of Tu-204s from UAC
MC-21 clearing ‘second gate’
Sukhoi SuperJet 100 to begin certification tests
UAC’s second subsidiary registered
Tu-142s upgraded in Taganrog
AL-55I trials on MiG-AT started
Another Yak-130 enters trials
First Taganrog-built Be-200ChS to be ready in three years
Work on Beriev A-42 continues
Beriev’s new programmes
Be-32’s rebirth?
Kamov company turns 60
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Tikhomirov’s radars: from phased array to AESA
Interview of Tikhomirov-NIIP Director General Yuri Bely
A key component of formidable combat capabilities of advanced fighters is the sophisticated fire
exported and in service with the Russian Air Force – are fitted with fire control systems developed by
the Tikhomirov-NIIP research institute. Tikhomirov-NIIP became a pioneer in developing phased-array
radars. Its first airborne radar debuted on the MiG-31 interceptor, and starting with the Su-30MKI these
radars have been equipping Sukhoi fighters. This year, the advanced Su-35 multirole fighter entered the
trials, with Tikhomirov-NIIP developing the Irbis-E passive phased array radar – the most refined in its
class – to fit it. As far as the future fifth-generation fighter is concerned, the company is developing its
first active electronically scanned array radar (AESA). To learn the status of the programmes, Take-off’s
editor Andrey Fomin met Tikhomirov-NIIP Director General Yuri Bely who was kind enough to grant us
an interview
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Aircraft computers made in Ryazan
Take-off has repeatedly covered various spheres the State Ryazan Instrument-Making Plant (GRPZ) – a
major Russian manufacturer of airborne radars – operates in, including its productionising of the active
digital computers and airborne computer systems for various applications. Take-off’s correspondent
Yevgeny Yerokhin has been to the plant again and seen Nikolay Andreyev, chief of the airborne computer
department of the corporate scientific and technical centre
Air Launch:
Indonesian prospects of Russian space programme
During the Russian president’s official visit to Indonesia in September 2007, about a dozen memoranda and
agreements were signed, of which the principal one was the agreement on a $1 billion loan to Indonesia for
acquisition of Russian armament and associated equipment. During their official meeting with the media,
the two presidents confirmed their interest in stepping up bilateral high-technology cooperation, including
joint space programme. This means, among other things, that they gave the green light to the well-known
Air Launch programme that became an international endeavour. The programme provides for orbiting small
spacecraft by launch vehicles blasting off not from the ground as usual, rather from an altitude of 10 km
after air-dropping from an An-124-100 Ruslan carrier aircraft. The first air launch has been slated for 2010.
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