In the next five years, the armed forces of Russia will remain without training L-39
According to some publications, the L-39 training aircraft, which are the basis of the training park today, will fail in the next five years.
As a source in the military department told the media, the Czechoslovak aircraft was not included in the modernization program and is now being withdrawn from the training parks due to the lack of spare parts and its physical aging. At the moment, two-thirds of the aircraft are no longer able to fly.
“Since the Yak-130 appeared, they did not accept the program for upgrading the L-39. The only contract for the Yak-130 is still stuck at a dead center due to the clarification of the relationship between the Ministry of Defense and the UAC (United Aircraft Building Corporation) about the cost of the car and therefore the delivery time of the aircraft is shifted. But, at this time, there is a constant write-off of L-39 due to the active consumption of machine resources on flights and the lack of substitutions, ”says a media source.
The problem L-39 is associated with the origin of the aircraft. The Czechoslovak aircraft that had the Ukrainian engine was created in 1960 and was considered the main training aircraft for the Air Forces of those countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact (Warsaw Pact Organization). But after the collapse of the ATS, and later the USSR, the supply of spare parts for the aircraft was almost completely stopped.
For quite a long time, the Russian Air Force maintained the state of the L-39 fleet thanks to the dismantling of the aircraft that were put out for storage. But, of course, this kind of source of spare parts is far from eternal, and at present it has almost dried up. The Russian Air Force has three hundred L-39 aircraft, but only one third of them will be able to participate in the flights. And in the near future, some of them will be written off.
The need for the Air Force in training aircraft is 120 aircraft, today the military aviation Russia has only ten Yak-130 aircraft. In August, at the MAKS-2011 air show, the UAC and the Ministry of Defense were to sign a contract for the supply of 130 Yak-65 aircraft by 2015. But the contract was not signed due to disagreement of the parties with prices.
Ultimately, this situation can reach complete absurdity, and the Russian armed forces in the literal sense of the word will have nothing to train young pilots.
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