VVS Russian Air Force: News #1

During the briefing, Colonel-General Bondarev said that during its existence military aircraft took a giant step in its development. Produced by the domestic industry aviation systems to fully enable proud of our Air Force. All the latest aviation technology is created in accordance with the programs sverhmanёvrennosti, stealth and combat power.

Speaking about the future of the aviation, air force commander said that in 2017, Russia will begin research and development on advanced aviation complex long-range interception, which is designed to come to replace the fighter-interceptor MiG-31. Within the framework of the ROC will be determined its shape. In accordance with the plans of the Air Force, he will go no earlier than 2025.

With regard to long-term aviation complex long-range aviation, then, according to Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev, he made the first flight in the course of production tests in 2019. And two years later they will wait for the troops. At the heart of the ideology of the PAK DA is high combat power along with the unique ability to overcome the enemy air defenses. This aircraft will have the latest electronic warfare complex and have a high-precision weapons.

During a conversation with journalists, Air Force Commander also not ignored the fifth generation fighter T-50. Colonel-General Bondarev said positive about this machine.

- T-50 well proven during a demonstration flight at the "Aviamikse" held in the sky above ground Pogonovo in the Voronezh region in July as part of the competition for training of flight crews air "Aviadarts 2014" - said the Air Force Commander.

By the way, according to Colonel-General Bondarev, the contest were revealed new features of our aircraft in relation to fly at extremely low altitudes in order to overcome the enemy air defenses. In the process of working out these tricks, no radar could not detect the attack. This experience in the future will be implemented in the course of combat training of flight crews.

Russia continues to work on the program of establishing the planned aircraft with forward-swept wing, said Russian Air Force Commander.
- I think over time we will see this aircraft, or a prototype of the aircraft - said Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev.

Speaking of combat training aircraft Yak-130, General-Colonel Bondarev has not confirmed the feasibility of the basis of the "flying desks" light attack aircraft.

Such plans we have, although initially considered such an option on the stage of the test aircraft - said the Chief of the Air Force.
He also explained that the aerobatic team "Wings of Tauris" on the Yak-130 has reached a certain level slёtannosti. However, because of the crash, which occurred this spring, their preparation has been temporarily suspended. Currently, the aircraft set new blocks. Then Yaqui circled the State flight test center in Akhtubinsk. The flights on these aircraft is scheduled to resume in August.

- The fate of any type of aircraft carefully studied. We do not disregard the well-proven machine. We are engaged in a deep modernization of the MiG-29, Su-27, Su-25 - said in a briefing Commander.

Russian aircraft company "MIG" will deliver the Russian Air Force in the next two-three years, 16 MiG-29 SMT, said Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev. The corresponding contract worth more than 17 billion rubles by the military department and aircraft producer signed in early 2014.
Continue to be refined and improved helicopters of Army Aviation. So, Colonel-General Bondarev said that in the near future Air Force will receive helicopters Mi-28N with dual controls and the Ka-52 with improved avionics and more diverse range of weapons. At the same time, are the development of new high-speed helicopter. Vehicle engines will soon be able to increase its velocity is almost twice normal.

Update the fleet must be accompanied by training of flight crews that this fleet will be able to competently operate. In this regard, journalists were interested in, so to speak, "curricula" Air Force - namely, the development prospects of the network flight higher military educational institutions.

Colonel-General Bondarev said that the increase in the number of flight schools in the next year and a half is not planned. In this case, the commander in chief does not rule out that the branches of the Krasnodar VVAUL acquire independent status in the near future. If necessary, in the future with the arrival of the new Flight equipment may be raised about the creation of new flight schools.

The number of students set to study the flying skills of this year amounted to 550 people. In navigational and Helicopter School and enrolled students with a certain reserve. Until 2017 their number will grow in line with the needs of the Armed Forces, and then go on the wane.
According to the Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev, this year the competition was nearly 2.5 per place, and a set of fully coincided with the planned amount.

George1 wrote:Russian Arctic island to serve as base for military transport planes

BALASHIKHA (Moscow Region), August 11. /ITAR-TASS/. A Russian Arctic aerodrome will be upgraded to receive Ilyushin Il-76 heavy military transport planes, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Col.-General Viktor Bondarev said on Monday.

Plans are afoot to make the Temp aerodrome on the Kotelny Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago off Yakutia suitable for Il-76 aircraft, he said.

“We eventually plan to land Il-76 aircraft there. There are all the necessary conditions for this there,” the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force said.

The aerodrome will eventually be able to receive planes all the year round and not only during nine months as is the case now, he said.

Russian Airborne Troops plan no permanent presence in Arctiс so far
The restoration of the military base on the New Siberian Islands, which was abandoned after the break-up of the Soviet Union, will help ensure effective and safe control in this part of the Arctic, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in September 2013.

“Our military left the place in 1993. Meanwhile, the place is a very important spot in the Arctic Ocean and a new stage in the development of the Northern Sea Route,” the Russian president said at the time.

“We have agreed that we’ll both restore the military base there and bring the airfield into order and make it possible for workers of the Emergencies Minister, hydrologists and climate specialists to take part in joint work to ensure safe and effective operations along the Northern Sea Route,” Putin said at the time.

The Russian Air Force currently pays special attention to creating and developing a network of airfields in the Arctic, the commander-in-chief said.

“Efforts are underway to develop the Rogachyovo aerodrome on Novaya Zemlya and other northern aerodromes in Vorkuta, Tiksi, Anadyr and on Cape Schmidt, as well as others. These aerodromes will be restored and used as bases for our aviation,” Bondarev said.

Russia will fly the prototype next-generation strategic bomber in 2019 and develop a new interceptor by 2020 to replace the MiG-31 fleet. Addressing the media on Russian Air Force Day (August 12) the service’s commander Gen. Victor Bondarev also said a new a combat aircraft with forward-swept wings is in development and could emerge soon as a prototype.

Production of the PAKDA strategic bomber will start in 2021-22, with flight tests completing in 2023 so that entry-into-service can take place later that year, according to Bondarev. The commander confirmed that the new bomber is subsonic. It will eventually replace the Tu-95 and the Tu-160.

In a recent interaction with the media, head of Russia’s United Engine Corporation (ODK) Vladislav Mosolov was quoted as saying that the PAKDA’s engine will be developed on the base of the Tu-160’s NK-32 “second edition” motor and use its gas-generator (core). ODK intends to invest $220 million of its own money into the project in addition to the approved governmental funding.

The new interceptor is sometimes referred to as the MiG-41. Bondarev said it forms part of the current Russian armament program ending in 2020. Plans call for replacement of the entire MiG-31 fleet by 2028.

Meanwhile, operational examples of the Sukhoi fifth-generation fighter PAKFA (manufacturer’s designation T-50) will be delivered to the Russian air force in 2016. Today, one industry-owned T-50 already flies with military pilots at the controls in the flight-test and armament trials center (Russian acronym GLITS) at Akhtubinsk airbase in southern Russia.

Bondarev confirmed that earlier this year the Russian MoD placed an order worth more than $470 million for 16 MiG-29SMT multirole lightweight fighters. Delivery is due within “two-three years.” These will supplement 28 such aircraft already in service. Bondarev further stated that the contract for the MiG-35 will be signed later this year. The Russian air force will continue upgrade efforts on the MiG-29 fleet so as to keep them in service for “another 10 to 15 years, maybe more.”

The commander also revealed that earlier plans for a light strike aircraft based on the Yak-130 jet trainer platform have been dropped.

Bondarev expects deliveries of Il-76MD-90A strategic airlifters to commence later this year, with 39 contracted for delivery by 2020. The air force also wants to receive some Il-96 airliners, from the order for 14 placed recently by the Russian government, for delivery by 2024. The military applications would include air tanker, as well as transport roles, according to Bondarev.

The Russian air force continues to build up its presence in the Arctic region. Temp and Rogachevo aerodromes have been re-opened, and work is in progress in Tiksi, Anadyr and Vorkuta. “We must withhold that region. Almost 49 percent of the Arctic territory must belong to Russia, and we shall defend it,” Bondarev said. Plans call for complete radar coverage of Russia’s northern regions.

ULYANOVSK, August 16 /ITAR-TASS/. Plans for resuming the production and upgrade of the Antonov-124 jumbo jet Ruslan, which Russian and Ukrainian aircraft builders have mulled for the past few years have been grounded indefinitely, if not forever, a senior Russian government official has said.

“I am very sorry... The project for resuming the production and upgrade of the unique plane Ruslan is off the agenda. That’s too bad. The niches that the Ukrainians and we might have taken... Designers there and producers here... Such chances and opportunities are very few to go around. In the world technological race such competences are in great demand. Any engineering company can merely dream of having them.”

It wouldn't make sense to develop such capabilities in Russia as they will likely not make more than a hundred planes... over a very long period.

I've never seen those rails on the back of the after section on the armor of the engines.
What do they carry?

mack8 wrote:Oh boy look at this VVS pr0n, cockpit pics and new (to me) Su-30SM borts, brand new Su-35S back in that superb blue cammo, brand new Su-30M2!
http://postimg.org/gallery/2s00n3mta/

Austin wrote:Russia's new air force is a myster

medo wrote:

Austin wrote:Russia's new air force is a myster

I think this was answered many times. Su-30M2 will be used for training duties, Su-35 will be together with PAK FA air defense fighter and Su-30SM will be multirole fighter with mostly air defense duties and naval multirole fighter. Su-34 is clear fighter-bomber.