^^ Beautiful stuff there.
Few snaps of today’s event.
DM Parrikar in the cockpit.
Exhaust stream very much visible in this.
Nice photos from Rostvertol by Gelio:
The inhouse cottage industry with spinning yarns for making composite blades of Mi-35M and Mi-28NE
HAL’s HTT-40 is to have its official maiden flight tomorrow @ 9.15am
Image courtesy Anantha Krishnan.
Maybe down the line they will change the canopy to a frameless one?
HTT-40 in this angle looks very good, hope we get to see tomorrows flight with those landing gears retracted.
Pipe dream- anyone remember the official claiming the VMF would have four carrier groups by the end of the decade?
Plans and priority change as per financial allotment, and everything related to shipbuilding first and foremost has been due to finance related rather than technology/infrastructure related.
Meanwhile, the project 22350 ships are the largest surface combatants built by Russia in the last 15 years.
No its not.
Two new Project 956EM Sovremenny destroyers (approx 6,500 tons standard) were contracted by the Chinese in 2002 and delivered in 2005 and 2006. Two unfinished hulls were completed earlier and sold to the Chinese which got delivered in 2000 and 2001.
Not dismissive of Russian capability to design and fund such a project, but there is a hell of a lot of infrastructure and industrial base to regenerate before any 100,000 ton carrier is built.
Industrial base and infrastructure already exist. Finance is the stuff that makes things moving.
With an almost 360m x 60m x 11m dry dock and another twin 400m berthing, Zaliv is the most suited yard which can built carrier of this size. Russia have already started to modernize the yard in parallel to having small orders. Things will improve to the level of a full scale heavy shipbuilding in 5 years time. Again depending on financial backing and orders placed.
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^ The illustration in the above is not accurate which we will understand by looking at the satellite image of the yard. But it will give a general understanding of the yards facility.
Theoretically, Zaliv can construct 3 x carrier hulls of length 330 meters in parallel. One in the dry dock and two on the 400m berth. The two 400meter berth will have to resort to constructing the 330m hull in two-three sections so that it can be launched using a floating dock or by slide slips and then assembled in the dry dock or with the help of PD-50 kind of floating dock.
TR1,
In what stages of construction are the rest of the 11356? Couldn’t find any pics on balancers. Good decision on retaining those three ships rather than selling it for scrap (I wonder who could be that stupid in the MoD/IN to make such an offer) as construction take time. With new gas turbines to be delivered for installation in 2018, we can expect all three to be in service by end-2019, which seems to be the target.
Putting up the translated one
“Admiralty shipyards” in the autumn will begin the construction of two patrol ships
13:4130.05.2016St. PETERSBURG, may 30 — RIA Novosti. “Admiralty shipyards” plan in the fall of 2016 to begin construction of two new patrol ships with ice class 23550 project for the Russian Navy, told RIA Novosti the General Director of the shipyard Alexander Buzakov.
“Now comes the design. Construction (to begin) after about 4 months, on receipt of the metal,” he said, adding that the timing of transmission to the customer — until the end of 2020.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian defense Ministry and the Admiralty shipyards signed a contract for the construction of two patrol ships of the ice class of the project 23550 in the interests of the Navy. In accordance with the terms of the contract, the vehicles have to be delivered to the Navy until the end of 2020.
Patrol ship ice class of the project 23550 is a brand new boat that combines the quality of a tug, icebreaker and patrol ship. This boat can go to the tropics and Arctic waters, breaking the ice thickness up to 1.5 meters. On set of technical characteristics of a patrol ship of the project 23550 has no analogues.
You could have posted a pic of that beautiful ship as well. 🙂
Not sure if this is the final one, coz the models displayed have difference.
Btw, any news on what is the status of Yak-152? It was suppose to make its first flight in 2016…..its six months more though.
Flying a “gas station”: the state and prospects of development of the market of refuelling aircraft in 2016-2025 g
I particularly liked that translation of Flying gas station 😎
For example, during the period of the air operation “unified protector” (Unified Protector) in Libya, the air force of the coalition forces led by the United States from March to October 2011 has completed more than 26 500 sorties. Of them fighting was only 9 700 (36.6 per cent). The remaining 16 800 made to ensure the combat – exploration, bridging, air transport, supply and refueling aircraft in the air. Moreover, the share of air tankers had 6 700 departures is 40 % of the total number of “non-combat” missions.
However, at present, the development of a new modification of the aircraft-tanker Il-78M-90A on the basis of Il-76MD-90A for the Russian defense Ministry (about it in detail was described in “Horizons” magazine, №4 (8), 2015, pp. 36-37).Il-78M-90A, unlike the Il-78M will retain the ability to use as a military transport: will he have a ramp and landing equipment. The possibility of using as a tanker and military transport aircraft, along with the installation of more fuel-efficient engines PS-90A-76, will significantly reduce direct operating costs and increase export potential.
^^ Yes. There are no shortage of torpedoes in the market and with the Indian Navy. If the Indian MoD push the French, the current in service Russian torpedoes will be the safest bet and cost effective. But the French would be very very reluctant to do it and if they do agree, they will demand a fortune for opening up the combat system to integrate the Russian armaments (& Indian torpedoes in the future). Then there can also be pressure from their European partners due to the prospect of loosing sales. The 36 x Exocets that was contracted along with the Scorpene deal will us an indication of what price to expect.
Btw, Hindustan Turbo Trainer HTT-40 is having its tests and the official first flight is set to happen in days to come.
Image courtesy AnanthaKrishnan
It would be interesting to compare and contrast two basic trainers that is currently under development, one from HAL and another one from Yak. HTT-40 has already made its presence where as Yak-152K is set to have its first flight in 2016.
VK-800 is somewhat underpowered for its role and fuel consumption may not be as good as their french counterpart , if they can build a better engine then the french one with growth potential for hot and high operation then its well worth the effort.
I don’t know how the Klimov VK-800V is under powered for its role in Ka-226. It have similar figures as the Turbomeca and have higher rating in emergency modes. Its specification has a T/O power of 800hp and have 900hp (30 min) and 1000hp (2.5min) thrust in emergency mode which is likely for single engine operation. Cruise power being 600 and 450hp.
http://www.klimov.ru/en/production/helicopter/VK-800V/
Where as Turbomeca Arrius 2G1 have a T/O power of 720shp and cruise power of 610shp. The max rating for emergency power is 792shp for single engine operation. I don’t know for how much duration it can sustain that emergency power level.
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