Be-200 Multirole Amphibian

DerWolf wrote:Seems like for Ukraine is being applied the "shock therapy"

More like execution by electrocution

And the bmpd article

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3932776.html

First Be-200ChS for RuNAVY aviation. 2020



https://russianplanes.net/id267753

“Star” above the water: the Be-200 amphibious aircraft began operating in the army

https://iz.ru/1035881/anton-lavrov-roman-kretcul/zvezda-nad-vodoi-v-armii-nachalas-ekspluatatciia-samoleta-amfibii-be-200

Russian naval aviation received the first Be-200ES amphibious aircraft

According to the AviaPressPhoto web resource, on July 14, 2020, in Yeysk, in the 190th training mixed aviation regiment on the basis of the 859th Center for Combat Training and Retraining of Naval Aviation Flight Command of the Russian Navy, a meeting was held of the first PJSC Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G.M. Beriev "Be-200ES amphibious aircraft for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The plane is named after the Soviet civilian pilot Alexander Mamkin, who took part in Operation Zvezdochka, whose task was to evacuate the pupils of Polotsk Orphanage No. 1. In late March - early April 1944, pilots of the 105th separate guards air regiment delivered about 200 educators and orphans to the Soviet rear.

 On the bmpd side, we indicate that this aircraft is the first built under a revised contract signed in 2018 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) to supply the Naval Aviation with three Be-200ES aircraft declared as search and rescue (with fire extinguishing function). " This first flight of the Be-200ES (presumably serial number 311) made its first flight on February 14, 2020 in Tagangrog from the factory airfield of PJSC Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G.M. Berieva ”(TANTK; part of PJSC UAC). The plane has tail number “20 yellow” and now has got its own name “Alexander Mamkin”.

It is stated that the other two aircraft under this contract should be surrendered to the Navy by the end of 2020, although this raises some doubts.

Earlier in May 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed with TANTK them. G.M. Berieva State contract for the delivery of six Be-200 amphibious aircraft to Russian naval aviation  - two Be-200ES aircraft and four modified Be-200PS aircraft (without fire fighting function) - totaling 8.4 billion rubles. The delivery was supposed to be made under the terms of the contract in 2014-2016, however, the construction of aircraft under this contract (serial numbers 309, 310 and from 351 to 354) at TANTK turned into a long-term construction and, in fact, according to known data, did not advance beyond the initial stage. In 2017, the Ministry of Defense terminated this contract. In August 2017, the Moscow Arbitration Court upheld the lawsuit of the Russian Ministry of Defense to recover from the TANTK im. G.M. Beriev more than 6.726 billion rubles as an unspent advance payment under this contract. As a result, in 2018, the contract was re-signed for only three Be-200ES aircraft.

The first Be-200ES aircraft handed over to the Russian Navy under this contract was the first Be-200 built on the TANTK since December 2018 and the seventh serial aircraft of this type of Taganrog production. Earlier in 2016-2018, the TANTK built six Be-200ES (serial numbers 303 to 308) for the Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Natural Disaster Management (EMERCOM) of Russia under a contract of the Ministry of Emergencies with the KLA from May 2011.

Prior to this, in turn, nine Be-200 aircraft were built - two flight prototypes at the TANTK (Be-200 in 1998 and Be-200ES in 2002) and seven production Be-200ES at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (commissioned since 2003 in 2011), of which six were delivered by the Russian Emergencies Ministry and one by the Azerbaijani Emergencies Ministry. Thus, a total of 16 flight specimens of the Be-200 were built.









https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4088155.html

GarryB wrote:Immersion suits have come a long way in the last few years... that guy who does the Combat Approved TV show has worn a bit one piece orange immersion suit where he jumps into water and floats for a bit and then climbs out not adversely effected by the deeply sub zero temperatures...

Do you know the name of the documentary , or do you have a link?

- The first Be-200ES aircraft under this contract (tail number "20 yellow", serial number 311), built at TANTK, made its first flight in Taganrog on February 14, 2020, and on July 14 was transferredin the 190th training mixed aviation regiment of the 859th Center for combat training and retraining of flight personnel of the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy in Yeisk.

- The Be-200PS aircraft, now lifted into the air, became the second board under this contract with the Ministry of Defense, and at the same time the first Be-200 built in the search and rescue version of the Be-200PS. Visually, the Be-200PS modification can be distinguished from the Be-200ChS by the absence of water tank flaps and the presence of portholes in place of the overflow holes.

- It is reported that the construction of the second Be-200PS (serial number 356) under the aforementioned contract with the Ministry of Defense continues.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4186568.html