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1.2003 (№35) Su-30MKISu-30MKI RUSSO-INDIANRUSSO-INDIAN PROGRAMMEPROGRAMME • RUSSIAN & CIS AIRCRAFT IN INDIA • ANTONOV AN-140: PILOT'S OPINION • CARRIER-BORNE FIGHTERS: WHICH TO CHOOSE AVIASALON Co Flight Research Institute, Zhukovsky, Moscow region, 140182, Russia Phone: + 7 (095) 556 7786, 556 5265 Fax: + 7 (095) 742 8751, 556 5413 E-mail: [email protected] www.maks.ru 1.2003 (35) CONTENTS Gulf debut. AEROSPACE NEWS WEAPONS Iran's first international FROM RUSSIA & CIS air show marked Precision weapons development: by cooperation with Ukraine and Russia . .58 Military aviation . .4 global tendencies . .33 Industry . .5 Contracts . .7 CIVIL AVIATION Flight safety . .8 Aeroflot: into a new year HOT TOPIC with a new image . .36 From aircraft sales to joint programmes. AIRLINERS Tendencies of Russo-Indian cooperation in aviation . .10 An-140: "People's transport" from Kharkov . .38 IN SERVICE ABROAD MiG Operational Flying Training Syllabus. How Indian Air Force pilots learn to fly MiG fighters . .62 AIR FORCE Deck fighter training begins on land . .20 "An-140 – it's simple, it's reliable, it's safe" – says Aleksandr Akimenkov, test pilot with GosNII GA . .40 INDUSTRY KnAAPO: to lead Sukhoi's COSMONAUTICS production devision . .46 558th Aircraft Repair Plant: Spacecraft launches COMBAT AIRCRAFT quality guaranteed . .48 the Russian Federation performed or contributed to in 2002 . .64 Su-30MKI programme and Sukhoi international cooperation . .22 AVIATION HISTORY Flying radars. From the history of Russian Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems . .66 AERO-ENGINES Engines for trainer and light combat aircraft from Zaporozhye . .50 Choosing the best ship-borne fighter . .28 AIR SHOWS ROTORCRAFT A farewell to Zhuhai. AirShow China 2004 Kazan VIP transport helicopters . .30 may be held in Shanghai or Beijing . .54 1.2003 №35 PUBLISHER PUBLISHER & CEO Nikolay Laskov PUBLISHING HOUSE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alexander Velovich MARKETING DIRECTOR George Smirnov ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Dear reader, Alexander Bekhter COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR We are pleased to note that for five years Air Fleet has been attract- Alexei Volokhov ing your attention. Given that Air Fleet is virtually the only specialised FINANCIAL DIRECTOR English-language magazine dedicated to the issue of the Russian avi- Dmitry Anisimov MANAGER FOR POLYGRAPHY ation development, we have at all times tried to give a full and all- Mikhail Petushkov round account of what’s going on in the Russian aerospace industry, MARKETING MANAGERS Nadezhda Kashirina,Vadim Lukyanov, the Air Force, civil aviation and cosmonautics. 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Andrei Fomin The editorial staff’s opinion does not necessary coincide with that of the authors. Air Fleet Editor-in-Chief Advertisers bear responsibility for the content of advertorials. © AIR FLEET. RUSSIAN AIR FORCE, AIRCRAFT & SPACE REVIEW, 2003 ADDRESS: P.O.Box 77, Moscow, 125057, Russia Tel.: +7(095)158-33-05, 158-95-01 Fax: +7(095) 956-01-07 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.airfleet.ru AEROSPACE NEWS FROM RUSSIA & CIS Military aviation RUSSIAN AIR FORCE DRAWS 2002 RESULTS 300 reconnaissance aircraft. The red alert sta- tus was imposed on air crews around 600 Colonel General Vladimir Mikhailov, averaged over 25h in fighter aviation, around times in 2002, on air defence missile units Russia’s Air Force and Air Defence Commander, 30h in ground attack aviation, over 20h in around 200 times, and on radio technical held a regular briefing on 15 January 2003, bomber aviation, around 25h in long-range troops units 2,500 times; Air Force duty crews titled "Russian Air Force: 2002 results, status, aviation, and over 50h in military transport avi- performed around ten airspace violation emer- and development prospects". ation. gency sorties. According to Gen. Mikhailov, front-line avia- Gen. Mikhailov stated that 2002 airspace com- Gen. Mikhailov takes modernisation of the tion of the Air Force held over 50 tactical flight bat duty along Russia’s state border was associat- Air Force’s fleet to be one of the priority devel- training exercises last year; exercises in more than ed with high tension. In the course of last year, the opment tasks in 2003. He believes that if the Air 50% of air regiments included training missile Air Force registered 45 cases of airspace regula- Force upgrades aircraft being in its inventory, as launches against air targets. Bomber and ground tions transgression and around ten airspace viola- well as upgrades and sells off-budget aircraft attack regiments held over 300 combat training tion incidents involving airships. left after the merger the Air Force and air exercises, and long-range aviation successfully Air Force and Air Defence duty units defence troops it can then easily revive its main- launched ten airborne cruise missiles in 2002. detected and tracked over 200,000 air targets, stay fleet. Gen. Mikhailov reported that front- As contrasted to 2001, last year’s annual more than 100,000 of them of foreign affilia- line aviation is expected to take around 20 flying time in the Air Force grew by 68% and tion, including over 1,000 combat aircraft and upgraded 4+ generation aircraft in 2003. RUSAF'S SU-27 RUSAF TURNS TO KYRGYSIA MODERNISATION UNDERWAY In late November 2002 the base will be manned by around 700 Russian Air Force commenced the military and civilian personnel. The The first Su-27SM fighter resultant Su-27SM modification forming of a composite air unit at creation of the base follows a deci- upgraded for the Russian Air Force will have even greater capabilities the Kant airfield located 20km away sion by member nations in the completed its first flight from the than the Su-30MK for example. from Bishkek, the capital city of Collective Security Treaty (CST) airfield of Komsomolsk-on-Amur The upgraded fighter will get a Kyrgyzstan. The unit will comprise signed by Armenia, Belarus, Aircraft Production Association cockpit indication system based five Su-27 interceptors, five Su-25 Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and (KnAAPO) on 27 December 2002. on three LCDs, and will be capable ground attack aircraft, two An-26 Tajikistan. Russian military aircraft The fighter was flown by Sukhoi of launching RVV-AE air-to-air mis- military transports, five L-39 train- will be the backbone of the CST test pilot Evgeny Frolov. siles against two targets at once. ers, two Mi-8 helicopters, and two member nations’ joint rapid deploy- Under the programme to The first fighter under the Il-76MD heavy transports. The air ment forces in Central Asia. upgrade the Russian Air Force’s upgrade programme was taken fleet, KnAAPO is defined as the from an Air Force unit.