Diving springboard
The main headquarters of the Russian Navy on the proposal of the naval command aviation This year, he refused to use both the “ground-based aircraft carrier” training complex in the Crimean Saki for training pilots of the 279th and 100th hotel ship's fighter aviation regiments (OKIAP), and the ship itself - Admiral Kuznetsov TAVKR.
Previously it was assumed that after the Main Naval Parade, which took place on 30 in July, in which several 279-1 OKAAP aircraft took part, the regiment would fly to Saki to maintain readiness to work from an aircraft carrier, a source familiar with the situations reported. Now, the aforementioned plans have been abandoned. This suggests that the only in Russia TAWC "Admiral Kuznetsov" in the near future will not go on long hikes and will wait for repair.
In order for the aircraft-carrying complex to function, the ship system must operate — ground infrastructure — aircraft. "Kuznetsov" is now "alive", he is on the move. But due to a number of technical problems, it has difficulty in obtaining the required travel speed for the aircraft to take off. The NITKA complex in the Crimea is virtually forgotten, although the corresponding instructions for its resuscitation were given at the highest level by the General Staff at the beginning of 2016. This would require minimal costs compared to the billions invested in such a simulator in Yeisk.
The commissioning of this complex has been delayed for five years. It literally rolled into the concrete at least 10 billion rubles, it is planned 18 billion more. The deadline has repeatedly been disrupted. Last time it was promised that this would happen at the end of 2016. However, a year has passed, and so far no prospects.
And almost ready simulator in the Crimea is idle.
Most of the pilots 100-th OKIAP on the newest MiG-29KR / KUBR can not work with the aircraft carrier, because not honed the necessary skills on the thread. 279 th OKIAP on Su-33 and Su-25UTG and several pilots of 100-th OKIAP trained in Saki in 2016 year before sending Admiral Kuznetsov to the shores of Syria, but in 2017 the ground complex was not used, and according to the existing regulations aces lost access to work from the deck.
During the long-distance cruise of the aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean Sea, from which it returned 8 February, were lost due to technical reasons for one Su-33 and MiG-29. The photographs of another MiG-29, which had landed while landing on a ground-based airfield, appeared on the Internet after the return of Admiral Kuznetsov. Some experts say that all this comes from the lack of proper training for deck aviation pilots at the NITKA complex, and not from the problems allegedly experienced with braking devices.
It is assumed that the aircraft carrier in the 2018 year will be repaired and upgraded, which, if there is enough money, will last two or three years. At the moment, the aircraft carrier is on the 35-m ship repair plant (branch "Zvezdochki"), but under the terms of the training of deck aviation pilots they need to comply with certain regulations in order to receive permission to fly from an aircraft carrier, and do it without training on the THREAD is impossible.
Another 22 in March 2016, Major General Igor Kozhin, Chief of Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy, informed the Minister of Defense that in Yeisk the springboard and upper stage were ready for commissioning. “The whole complex will be commissioned completely by the end of this year,” the general said then. "This year" smoothly moved to 2017. And the surrender is still not visible.
According to reports, the main problem of the NITKA complex in Yeisk is that it is made of concrete, unlike its predecessor in Saki and its counterpart in India, made, as befits a real aircraft carrier, from steel. The concrete performance of the remake, which has already turned into long-term construction, seems to be its main problem: the design “went” before receiving the planes ... At one time - before the return of the Crimea - the beginning of its construction was justified, but now the situation has changed radically. It seems that only the desire of some officials to “cast into concrete” billions does not change. And a completely seditious assumption: maybe because of someone’s disbelief that the Crimea has returned forever?
- Author:
- Alena Nadezhdina
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