China is close to completing work on copying the Soviet unified overhead refueling unit
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AVIC Aerospace Life-Support Industries Ltd. (AVIC ALA) is close to completing work to create an analogue of the Soviet unified overhead refueling unit (ORM), the blog reports Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. At the moment, the test cycle is coming to an end, and mass production will be launched in the near future.
AVIC ALA is a Chinese company with more than 4400 employees. Its headquarters is located in Sanyang City, in Hubei Province. The main specialization of the company, created in 2003 by merging of serial plants No. XXUMX, No. XXUMX and SRI-510, manufacture of parachute systems, ejection seats and other rescue equipment.
An agreement on the development of an analogue of an ORM and refueling hose was signed in September 2006 of the year with the aircraft carrier manufacturer, the Shenyang Aerospace Corporation. The first flight tests of the finished unit took place in June 2014. Thus, China has become one of the five countries in the world that have similar technology.
According to representatives of the management of AVIC ALA, work on the project is in the final stage, it remains to make only the "recent improvements". Earlier in the Chinese segment of the Internet, shots of the J-15 carrier-based fighter with the analogue of the ORM appeared. It is possible that these aircraft will be the first, and perhaps the main carriers of this unit.
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