RuAF News and Development Thread part 11

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Mr. A Fomin's Take-off magazine ahead of Aero India . Some interesting info there on various aircraft status as of late last year /january this year.

http://en.take-off.ru/component/content/article/92-current/431-current

Plenty of details in that one. A few that caught my eye:-
About Pak-fa radar
- radar for 50-5 almost ready
- achieved stable operation of the AESA radar in all air-to-air and air-to-surface modes from the outset.
- Indians to develop some subsystems of their own for FGFA using Pak-Fa radar as base.

About Bars radar
- Upgrade path agreed in principle but no contract yet
- Upgrade in two steps as we already know
- AESA array for Bars after the development of Pak-fa radar is done.
- A lighter version of BARS, Bars-130 for Yak-130
- Testing done for Upgraded Bars for Su-30Mki and Su-30SM (?).

About Irbis
- Unique target identification achieved at the range of 400km
- First Irbis equipped Tu-22 and Tu-160 in 2014.

About Zhuk-AE
- FGA-35 and FGA-29 are ready to be supplied in the near future.
- Indian Navy being offered FGA-29.

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^^ I suppose that qualifies as travelling in the cattle class :)

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Tu-104 ??? :diablo:

Cub sandwich ???

Over the Hump.

Or....

The sexual desires of the Camel
Are greater than anyone thinks.
This perverted, but passionate animal
Has designs on the hole in the Sphinx.
But at times, this very large orifice is filled with the sands of the Nile.
Which accounts for the Camel's expression.
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile........

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You just blew my mind Ken :o

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/453792.html

PiBu on the Yak-130.

-Currently, the one production line @ Irkut can make 30 planes per year.
-In December the RuMOD ordered 55 planes with 10 options (12 were ordered from Sokol previously) for delivery by 2015
-MOD looking at potentially over 200 Yak-130
-A targeting pod is under devlopment

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http://bmpd.livejournal.com/453792.html

PiBu on the Yak-130.

-Currently, the one production line @ Irkut can make 30 planes per year.
-In December the RuMOD ordered 55 planes with 10 options (12 were ordered from Sokol previously) for delivery by 2015
-MOD looking at potentially over 200 Yak-130
-A targeting pod is under devlopment

Specifically for Yak-130 or for other aircraft also? I don't remember the last time I saw a targeting pod on Russian aircraft. =/

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Specifically for Yak-130 or for other aircraft also? I don't remember the last time I saw a targeting pod on Russian aircraft. =/

Well, there is the old-ish Sapsan for the Su-30:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7117/s400slartvirloropsapsanlu2.jpg

The KS-N(?):
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/830/optronicsequipmentforpa.jpg

And a few others in development it seems. I also seem to recall seeing a mock-up pod for the MiG-29M2/35/K/KUB but I might be wrong there.

And MKIs have been flying with these for quite a while (though not a Russian component, but a targeting pod on a Russian a/c nonetheless):
http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt96/Nokopro/Kedar_20080815-141__D206128.jpg

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Su-30MKM with Damocles pod
http://a.imageshack.us/img213/6148/66916297.jpg

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Kazakh Su-27UBM2 with Litening II
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8258/10062300595418848255069.jpg

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Ok that showed me... now I'm worried about the India-level chaos in the variety of pods being used and apparently in development. :p

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Specifically for Yak-130 or for other aircraft also? I don't remember the last time I saw a targeting pod on Russian aircraft. =/

They are working on a pod for the Su-25SM3, I suspect this will be the same (or modified) thing.

It is about damn time, hopefully does not go the way of Sapsan.

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What UAV is that ? Which factory is the interview taken ? Thanks.

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Looks like KAPO?

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About Bars radar
- Upgrade path agreed in principle but no contract yet
- Upgrade in two steps as we already know
- AESA array for Bars after the development of Pak-fa radar is done.
- A lighter version of BARS, Bars-130 for Yak-130
- Testing done for Upgraded Bars for Su-30Mki and Su-30SM (?).

Many thanks for sharing your findings Twinblade. Some interesting info there.

Why do they want to put a BARS in the Yaks? Sounds expensive.. For pilot training purposes? (That would make some sense i guess). Or for something else?
And that AESA array, -will it be fitted to the Indian Super 30s?

OT: Have other Flanker customers beside India shown any interest in/made requests for AESA-capacity so far? What about Malaysia? Or are they simply satisfied with the current performance?

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^For it to magically become light fighter.

Yes, KAPO made by Sokol.

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they're offering an attack capable version of Yak-130,
making it available for export doesn't necessarily indicate RuAF interest,
although having it available mean they can consider it also.