Source: Russia collected a second sample of military transport aircraft Il-112V

A spokesman said that testing will begin in July – August

Specialists of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after N. E. Zhukovsky (TSAGI) and the manufacturer VASO has completed Assembly of the second example of the military-transport aircraft Il-112V is designed for the endurance test, which will begin in July-August 2019. On Thursday TASS said a source in the military-industrial complex.
“In TSAGI assembled the second Il-112V for the endurance test. Are the final preparatory work, testing will begin in July-August this year”, – said the Agency interlocutor. He said that the Institute, he may remain for several years.
The first model of the Il-112V is used for flight testing and first took to the air on March 30, having made a regular landing on the airfield of Voronezh aircraft manufacturing company (VASO). According to the source, if no decision about building two more aircraft for flight testing, the second sample in the TSAGI may be brought to fly.
The second Il-112V was delivered to Zhukovsky unassembled in December 2018 for the static endurance tests at TSAGI. January 18, Alexey Rogozin, who was then the post of General Director of PJSC “Il”, reported that the Assembly of the third and fourth prototypes of light transport aircraft Il-112V to begin in 2019.

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But these IR on PAK-FA are scanning sensors and not staring ones like F-22 and F-35 MAWS? I guess different design priorities, it seems like Su-57 is better against MANPADS while less optimal against AAMs. Staring IR MAWS require a lot of image processing so it’s probably a lot more complex and expensive.

Why do you think the Su-57 is optimized against MANPADs and not AAM? The plane is not even thought to do CAS, so I very much doubt MANPADs have a big role in the requirements of the plane. But the DIRCMs of course could take care of them, as they would do with IR-AAMs launched by other fighters.

IR missiles will be detected by the 101KS-U due to the engine plume all around the plane, the radar missiles once beyond the burn time of their rocket engine either with the active radar in all of the front hemisphere (actually the FOV of the X band radar is something like 300º) or due to guidance link / ARH by the ESM onboard.

An EODAS system like the one on F-35 is clearly very cool and probably a future standard, it does not mean it is a must now. I think in fact such system is specially useful for CAS and in general A2G roles, rather than to detect incoming missiles.

The Russian strategic missile forces receive the missiles of the fifth generation of “Avangard” – the commander

Strategic Rocket forces (RVSN) take-up complex “Avangard”, the infrastructure for the regiment with the arms deployed in the Orenburg region, said commander Sergei Karakayev.
“In Yasnenskaya missile connection infrastructure is deployed to staging missile regiment with the complex “Avangard”, which will be put on combat duty by the end of 2019″,- said S. Karakayev, whose words are cited on Wednesday in the Department of information and mass communications of the Russian defense Ministry.
He said that Russia managed to create a new missile systems that are already operational strategic missile forces.
“We continue to accept the operation put on combat duty stationary and mobile missile complexes of the fifth generation “YARS” and “avant-garde”, – said the commander of the strategic missile forces.
In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin in the message to the Federal Assembly announced the beginning of serial production of new Russian weapons – missile complex “Avangard” with hypersonic warheads. “This year, as planned, will be held in the first regiment of the strategic missile forces,” – said the President.
In the same month, the Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that “avant-garde” will be on combat duty in December 2019.
Leading researcher of the military Academy of the strategic missile forces Vladimir Zakharov in February reported that there is a preparation of personnel, weapons, military and special equipment for the deployment of “avant-gardes” in Dombarovskiy missile division.
“Already this year, the RVSN group appears missile system, equipped with cruise planning unit, able to hit the target with hypersonic speed on ballistics and trajectory, passing in the dense layers of the atmosphere”, – he said.
Zakharov said that when driving towards the goal of a winged block “Avangard” makes controlled maneuvers like side and height, providing the unpredictability of its flight for any missile.
It is known that the original combat units of the “avant-garde” will be installed on Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), UR-100N utth. Then their carriers will become the new Intercontinental missile “Sarmat”.

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Krivoruchko on the Su-57 order, not very revealing but rather confirming what we have been said already. He hints at further orders, which would be the logical thing for a new plane meant to operate for the next 40 years:

Purchase of 76 su-57, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is a unique step which does not resemble the past 40 years. This was reported by Deputy Minister Alexei Krivoruchko in interview to TV channel “Zvezda”.

“This is a very big order. I would have said that such decisions were not taken for the last 40 years. This is the newest plane, a full-fledged fifth-generation fighter,” said Krivoruchko.

He also noted that, probably for the first batch of aircraft, followed by a second, and expressed confidence that in the future these aircraft will undergo upgrades.

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I will try to link the interview when available online

Some good points about the cost of the Su-57:

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Good to read it all but I select below some highlights:

Most Likely, a fair price for the su-35, when MO is not overcharged, and the plant gets laid him profit, ranging somewhere in the interval of 1.6-1.9 bn, and a fair price on the su-57 – in the gap of 2.23-2.68 billion RUB. That is the real price of the su-57 indeed it may be in the range of 34.5-41.5 million dollars. Of course, the final points over “i” will put a signed contract, but so far there is no single reason to believe that the price tag on the su-57 for our videoconferencing will be higher than these figures.

Everything is very simple. The export price of the su-35 could reach $ 100 million.. But you need to understand that the export contract included a lot of things such that when delivered to our videoconferencing and USAF passes on to other articles. That is, there will be maintenance and training of pilots and ammunition, and maybe something else. And the most important thing.

The Price for our aircraft for VCS determines the cost of these aircraft. This is the pricing – the manufacturer coordinates with the military representatives of the amount of the cost of production of a batch of goods in the amount according to the contract, and then winds on these costs provisions of the law on profit margins.

But the price of our aircraft on the foreign market determine the demand and supply of military equipment. And if the ratio “price/quality” of the su-35 is that it can be bought for 80-100 million. why should we sell it cheaper?

First images of the Okhotnik-B that I have seen allowing a fair estimation of its size and its plan view:

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Dreams of the regiment: su-57 creates special military units Aviation regiments of the fifth generation will cover the main strategic directions
For the su-57, the flow of which into the Armed forces announced President Vladimir Putin, will be formed into new regiments. As told “Izvestia” several sources in the defense Ministry, the military part will have a fundamentally different structure. In particular, their composition will be a special ground unit responsible for radar stealth aircraft. Experts believe that the regiments of the fifth generation are created to cover the main strategic directions: Far East, South-West and North-West Russia.
That by 2027 videoconferencing received 76 su-57, Vladimir Putin said at a military conference in Sochi on may 15. Is the number of aircraft will complement three shelf dhaskalio composition, each state should be for 24 aircraft. Another four cars, said the interlocutors of “Izvestia” in the defense Ministry, will be in Lipetsk 4-th Center of combat training. There are pilots-instructors will begin training pilots for the “fifty-seventh”.

Now consider two VCS deployment option parts, where will the su-57. Most likely — the creation of a new regiment and upgrading to the new technique of two active. One cannot exclude the fact that the fifth generation aircraft will get existing units. According to sources of “Izvestiya” in the Ministry of defence, the final decision on this matter will be taken after consultation with the United aircraft Corporation (UAC) of schedule of aircraft deliveries to the troops.
Most likely, the shelf of the fifth generation are created to cover the main strategic directions. One of them will be based in the East, the second — in the South-West, the third — in the North-West of the country, says military expert Dmitry Boltenkov. In his opinion, there is a high probability that one of the first new fighters will take the pilots of the 23rd fighter regiment 303rd composite air division in the Khabarovsk region, which is stationed at Dzemgi. This airfield is used for testing the aircraft factory im. Yu Gagarin (near Komsomolsk-on-Amur), which will be responsible for serial production of the domestic stealth fighters.
In SCD they are trying to put new equipment in the first place in those parts which are close to the manufacturers. In favor of this choice is the fact that the 23rd regiment is the experience of the development of modern technology: a few years ago it was the first part of the force received into service, the su-35, — told “Izvestia” Dmitry Boltenkov.
This approach when adopting new equipment into service for videoconferencing, the military leadership is not committed to the first year. In particular, the su-30CM first got the 120-th mixed aviation regiment of the blast furnace, which is near Irkutsk, which produced these planes.

For the su-57 is currently actively developed new types of weapons. In particular, the aircraft will get a new sverdlovskoy hypersonic missile “air–air” R-37M, which can affect high-speed air targets at a distance of more than 300 km.

Special attention will be paid to the training of personnel for new units, the sources noted “news” in the Ministry of defense. The su-57 is equipped with a large number of sophisticated weapons and high-tech equipment, and new engines — manage need professionals and pilots of the highest qualification.
To fly on the aircraft of the fifth generation su-57 will be the first to admit the most prepared pilots told “Izvestia”, the former commander of the 4th army of VVS and PVO, Hero of Russia, Lieutenant-General Valery Gorbenko.
— New airplanes will be taken into service gradually, he said. — Initially, the aircraft will be tested at the factory, then they will be sent to the State flight test center of the Ministry of defence Chkalov in Akhtubinsk. Here check the equipment and armament of each aircraft, conduct routine tests, and some of the pilots will retrain on a new aircraft.
The regiments of the fifth generation will get fundamentally new ground equipment. In particular, for su-57 to manufacture mobile hangars, where you can track the status of the stealth coating machines, which makes them invisible to radars of the opponent, and find out how flight has affected the visibility of fighter radar, infrared, and other spectra detected. To verify avionics and upholstery su-57 on the subject of non-standard electronic radiation will be personnel.
Equipment for testing electronic stealth su-57 has passed the test in Syria during the combat test of these machines.

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Pants s#@ttingly scary…

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I never get tired of that video… simply amazing that a thing the size of a lorry can do such a feat two meters off the ground. High AoA controllability saving the day. But of course we know this is not how the landing we talk about would work.

If we’re talking carrier landings using this method at that AoA, the front landing gear will be damaged as the nose snaps down after the trap.

As the diagram shows, the contact with the ground takes place at a perfectly normal AoA, not at 60º

On a runway, the rear stinger is likely to strike the ground (expensive mistake given the radar in there).

See above.

I read that Russia uses it’s best pilots for carrier ops due to the extreme difficulty in doing standard carrier landings with the Su-33. Doing insanely risky, high AoA landings with 0 margin for error is not something you’d ever trust Russia’s typical 30hours per year VVS pilots with. One small lapse in attention and the pilots will inadvertently pull a pugachev’s cobra right into the ground.

They are much better off using that valuable time training how to survive against far more advanced, stealthier, numerically superior adversaries supported by a fully integrated system of systems for as long as possible.

I have already repeated a few times that the manoeuvre is automated, you cannot trust a man to control such sequence with the required precision, the same way you cannot trust him to control an unstable aeroplane without a digital FCS. So let me repeat it once more: it is not the pilot that would perform that landing, it is the FCS when ordered to so.