Russian surprises of Bangalore
Russia continues to fight for the Indian weapons market6 February in Indian Bangalore (Karnataka) at the military base Yelahanka in 20 kilometers from the city opened the 9-th International Aerospace Exhibition Aero India-2013 (Aero India-2013). It will close 11 in February and will become, as is already happening according to tradition, the largest demonstration of combat equipment and weapons in this region of the world, in which the most well-known defense companies and armed forces of almost all the leading nations of the planet will take part. Including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China, Israel, South Africa, India itself ... You can list for a long time. Not lost on this show of high-tech achievements of science and technology, embodied in the combat systems, and our country.
Several dozen Russian enterprises and corporations brought their products to the Bangalore exhibition. Among them are Rostec (a new brand of Russian Technologies), Rosoboronexport, United aviation Corporation (UAC), Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, Russian Helicopters, and many others. But it’s well known that perhaps for the first time in Aero India 2013 our Russian aerobatic aerobatic team “Russian Knights” will take part, which will demonstrate the unique figures of celestial acrobatics on five Su-27 fighters under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Colonel Andrei Alekseev that delight spectators of air shows in various countries of the world. By the way, pilots of the Russian Air Force from Kubinka, Moscow Region, from the Center for the Display of Aviation Engineering, which will turn 75 this March, should perform this year at 20 aviation holidays and exhibitions. In addition to Bangalore, on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia, "LIMA-2013", in Le Bourget near Paris, in Beijing at the "China Airshow-2013" and in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “Aero India 2013”, at which 10 shows are planned, will be their debut this year, where they plan to demonstrate the world-famous aerial construction “big diamond” (“big rhombus”), performed in mixed form and officially entered into the Book Guinness World Records.
But the participation of Russian Knights and Swifts in the Bangalore International Aerospace Exhibition is not the only surprise that the combined Russian delegation prepared for the participants and guests of Aero India. The Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, for example, carries a short-range anti-aircraft missile system Tor-МХNUMXКМ to Yelahanka air base. Our readers are familiar with this system, it has already been described more than once and not two times on the HBO pages. About tracked and wheeled vehicles. “Tor-M2KM” differs from them in that it is an autonomous combat module and can be placed on a variety of platforms and carry out combat missions of air defense both in the interests of the Ground Forces units and the Air Force and Navy to protect against strategic air strikes and the most important military and government facilities.
Module (ABM) air defense missile system "Tor-M2KM" - an autonomous combat unit, which houses radar and optical equipment, special equipment, anti-aircraft guided missiles (SAM), the main and backup power sources, combat crew.
A special hull with unified attachment points has been developed for it, which allows the module to be mounted on a vehicle chassis, semi-trailer, trailer or other platforms, including a railway one, on a ship. Moreover, it can be hung under the Mi-26T helicopter (the module weighs only 15 tons) and transferred to any hard-to-reach places: in the mountains, on the roofs of buildings and structures, where the enemy is unlikely to search for him or expect to be captured by a locator and a rocket launch.
Experts from the Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant Kupol, which is part of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, the creators of this module, claim that the whole process of the combat work of the Tor-M2KM air defense system is fully automated. The person only chooses from among the targets proposed by the machine for destruction and presses the “start” button. An anti-aircraft guided missile is automatically guided to the target, and at the point of encounter of the missile and the target, the warhead of the missile is undermined. Her combat equipment weighing 14 kg contains fragments of complex geometric shape, made of a special alloy (tungsten – nickel – iron), which ensures the highest penetrating ability of the fragment and almost completely eliminates the possibility of rebounding. Small errors at the meeting point, adaptation of the radio-fuse to the type of aerial target in combination with special combat equipment of the combat unit of the missile defense system, they say, provide the complex with a high probability of hitting all types of aerial targets. And if you consider that only two people serve the Torah combat module, it is clear that this machine will arouse the great interest of guests and hosts of Aero India-2013.
True, the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern carries to Bangalore in the form of models, posters, posters and video films not only the Tor-MXNUMKKM air defense missile system, but also about twenty more samples of anti-aircraft missile systems. Among which are long-range C-2ВМ (“Antey-300), capable of striking all air and ballistic targets at a distance of 2500 km as well as repair and diagnostic equipment. The Indian market of air defense equipment is extremely saturated, our firms have a lot of opponents here, but experts say that domestic air defense systems are very competitive. And if Delhi wants to upgrade its air defense weapons, then it will have a rich choice, although it’s unlikely that anyone can compare with Russian systems in terms of cost and effectiveness.
Another sensation Aero India-2013 should be the integrated simulator of the deck fighter MiG-29K / KUB, which is demonstrated in Bangalore by the same-name Russian company. Our readers know that Delhi bought from Russia two dozen such aircraft for its aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, which is currently undergoing the final stage of repair and modernization at the Severodvinsk engineering plant and should be transferred to the Indian Navy at the end of this year. And the fighters for the cruiser are already coming into service with the country's naval forces, the pilots are beginning to master them. Moreover, the Indian military ordered more than two dozen such vehicles to Russian enterprises. But without appropriate simulators, not only such as the Ukrainian NITKA, which is located in Saki, near Sevastopol, but also the cockpit, engine models, and other fighter systems, it is naturally more difficult and costly to do all this.
And in order to reduce this material and financial burden, and at the same time facilitate naval aviation pilots (including Russian) mastering the fighter, MiG specialists created a special simulator - the MiG-29К / KUB cockpit, where all pilot actions are reflected on the TV screens in the 3D system to launch an aircraft engine, take it off the deck of an aircraft carrier, fly a combat mission and, most importantly, the most difficult operation is landing on a ship. And, as they say, those who sat in the simulator at the pilot's place (two pilots can be trained at the same time), this whole process is so real that you literally feel with your whole body a tense machine shake, ready to jerk into the sky, all the overloads caused by complex air maneuvers, bombardment or head-to-head combat with the enemy, missile launches, you can see the landmarks on the cruiser’s deck, which you need to reset the plane’s speed to zero, lower the hook, throw the braking parachute ...
MiG specialists are convinced that their simulator will be popular not only among the guests of Aero India-2013, but also, first of all, among naval aviation pilots.
By the way, full-scale samples of aviation technology, except for the Russian Knights and Swifts fighters, our exhibitors in Bangalore do not carry. Why, they are surprised. Almost all Indian air forces are made up of Russian combat vehicles, and they will be quite enough at Yelahanka’s military base to show how rich our country is and what it can provide to the customer. However, not only for sale.
“In cooperation with India, de facto, we have already moved from the seller-buyer relationship to the joint creation of the latest technology: the first stage of the fifth-generation fighter design was successfully completed,” said Viktor Komardin, deputy general director of Rosoboronexport, head of the united delegation of corporation Rostec and Rosoboronexport at the exhibition. - In accordance with the schedule, work is also under way on a multi-purpose transport aircraft; there is also a Brahmos supersonic rocket, which the Indian side plans to integrate into the Russian aviation complex (Su-30MKI. - Auth.). It is with Russia that India is working on exclusive and large-scale mutually beneficial projects, which is explained very simply: no one, except Russia, will give India modern military technology. ”
The implementation of such projects will certainly be raised in Bangalore, Mr. Komardin promised. In addition, at the airshow it is planned to continue discussion of the program for further modernization of Su-30MKI fighter jets, which is expected to affect almost all components of this aircraft. No less important topic for discussion in the context of the Russian-Indian military-technical cooperation is the implementation by the Russian side of offset programs in broad cooperation with Indian partners, as well as a discussion of the prospects for further development of cooperation.
One of such projects, the prospects for implementation of which are expected to be determined by the Indian side in the near future, is the program proposed by Rosoboronexport as part of the tender for the supply of reconnaissance and surveillance helicopters 197. The uniqueness of the Russian proposal lies in the fact that, in terms of its flight performance, the newest multi-purpose helicopter Ka-226Т is ideally suited for solving the tasks indicated by the customer. The offset program offered together with Ka-226T is also attractive for the Indian industry.
In general, the head of the Rosoboronexport delegation said, the agenda of the upcoming talks and presentations in Bangalore promises to be rich. And based on the fact that during the meeting in December 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stressed the need for the further progressive development of a particularly privileged strategic partnership between Russia and India in all major areas, including military-technical cooperation The Aero India-2013 aerospace salon is obliged to give a new powerful impetus to the relations of the two countries in this area.
Information