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2001-06-22, Serge Pod: Эти F-16 покупаются за те же амеровские бабки. Поначалу хотели купить ударных F-15, но видно пораскинув мозгами решили что лучше купить F-16, но больше. Статью про сравнение ВВС я постил. Ничего там печального нет. Хотя и радостного тоже. Египет получает…

2001-06-21, Serge Pod: Israel Shopping for New Warships 21 June 2001 Analysis In a move expected to provoke similar actions from Egypt and Syria, Israel may buy up to five new Sa'ar-5 corvettes, according to the Jerusalem Post. The warships would help Israel secure coastal waters and potentially provide a platform for nuclear weapons. Neighbouring rivals are already moving to increase their naval capabilities, partly to counter Israel's new bid for sea power. Shifting the focus from land-based to naval defence systems will challenge the dominant role of national armies in the Middle East and North Africa and foster inter-service rivalries that could impair each country's military readiness. Israel already has three Sa'ar-5s in service, and the new models - costing more than $200 million each - would substantially improve Israel's naval strength. Ton-for-ton, the Sa'ar-5 is considered the most heavily armed ship in the world. Each is stocked with Harpoon and Gabriel II surface-to-surface missiles, torpedoes, a 76 mm gun and Barak…

2001-06-15, Serge Pod: $7 billion AWACS contract for Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman 13 June 2001 US Air Force officials at Hanscom AFB have signed a $7 billion contract with three aircraft contracting giants recently that continues Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft modernisation, sustainment and support for the next 18 years. The AWACS Programme Office signed the AWACS Modernisation and Sustainment Support agreement, or AMASS, with Boeing and its subcontractors Northrop-Grumman and Lockheed Martin. The agreement provides a complete, start-to-finish system perspective for AWACS, said Lt. Col. Sidney Kimhan, AMASS programme manager who is now retired. "AWACS is... unique in that it's been in service for almost 25 years and will likely be around for at least another 25," Kimhan said. "The system has had tremendous success, but we realised that to maintain and expand on that success, we needed to look at a somewhat different management approach." AMASS offers a "top-down" focus and places greater…

2001-06-14, dsamoilov: Jane's News Briefs 14 June 2001 Bush administration seeks additional DoD funding for 2001 The Bush administration earlier this month requested $5.6 billion in supplemental funding for the Department of Defense (DoD) for fiscal year 2001 (FY01), less than the $8-10 billion that some senior military officers had been calling for. The supplemental funding comes in addition to the $296 billion already allocated to the DoD in FY01. Canada includes C-130J as transport option The Canadian Air Force has expanded its list of options for a strategic air transport to include the Lockheed Martin C-130J medium tactical transport aircraft. More Leopards for Chile Chile has awarded RDM Technology of the Netherlands a contract for the supply of 11 specialised variants of the German-built Leopard 1 series main battle tank from Royal Netherlands Army stocks. India and Russia agree protocol on defence co-operation India and Russia have signed a protocol on defence co-operation that could, with the addition of existing…

2001-06-13, <Dron>: Aleksander Zuev, the ex-Soviet pilot who stole a MiG-29 fighter jet in 1989 and delivered it to Turkey, have died while flying the Yak-52 airplane to the north of Seattle. Initial reports indicate that the propeller of the aircraft got jammed and it crashed soon after.

2001-06-06, Dron: By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The highest-ranking U.S. military officer ever arrested on spying charges went on trial Tuesday with a prosecutor saying the defendant was once No. 1 on the Kremlin's list of intelligence sources during the Cold War. In opening statements at Army Reserve Col. George Trofimoff's espionage trial, federal prosecutor Walter Furr said Trofimoff delivered more than 50,000 pages of documents to the KGB during a 25-year spying career. Among the information Trofimoff allegedly passed to the Soviets: details on U.S. battle plans, briefs of chemical and biological weapons and lists of information needed by U.S. intelligence officers. Trofimoff, 74, faces a life sentence if convicted. From 1969 until 1994, Trofimoff was a civilian chief of a U.S. Army installation in West Germany where refugees and defectors from the Soviet bloc were interrogated. He has denied the spying accusations. His lawyer, Daniel Hernandez, has said Trofimoff was so strapped for cash…

2001-06-04, Serge Pod: Monday June 4 4:17 AM ET 2nd Crash Closes Britain Air Show LONDON (AP) - The crashes of two vintage aircraft on consecutive days at an air exhibition left three people dead and brought the show to an early close. A 1950s De Havilland Vampire with two men aboard corkscrewed to earth during a display with a De Havilland Sea Vixen aircraft Saturday evening. It came down about 100 yards from a street of row houses, showering some gardens with debris. Both men were killed. ``I can think of no other way to describe it other than it just fell out of the sky,'' said Nick Smith, spokesman for the Biggin Hill Air Fair, held at a former World War II fighter base south of London. On Sunday afternoon, a World War II-vintage single-seater American King Cobra was performing in a display with two other planes when it spiraled out of control and crashed into trees, witnesses said. ``There was a fireball and then a stunned silence,'' said Smith, confirming that the pilot died. Police Chief Superintendent Gerry Howlett said…

2001-06-04, Serge Pod: Israel to buy Pratt Whitney engines for IAF 4 June 2001 Israel's Ministry of Defence has selected Pratt & Whitney's F100-PW-229 engine to power the Israel Air Force's follow-on buy of fighter aircraft. Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, Israel's Deputy Minister of Defence, and Major General (Res.) Amos Yaron, Director General of Israel Ministry of Defence, announced the decision at a meeting at P&W's East Hartford, Connecticut facility. "This latest procurement marks the third consecutive time that Israel has selected Pratt & Whitney's F100 engine to power our front line fighters,'' said Yaron. "Since the beginning of the Israel Air Force in 1947 with the famous Wasp engine, Pratt & Whitney has been an integral part of our engine world.'' Yaron said the official contract would be signed later in the month, and would cover up to 61 engines for delivery in the years 2005-2008. The deal has an approximate value of $300 million over the life of the programme. "The Israel Air Force today operates more than 600…

2001-06-02, <Dron>: The Head of the Russian Air Force, Anatoliy Kornukov, doesn't consider USA's offer to purchase S-300 air defense systems to be serious. According to him, this offer is nothing but an attempt to attract global attention to something other than ABM treaty of 1972 which USA threatens to break without mutual agreement between its representatives and Russian authorities.

2001-06-02, Serge Pod: China's Army Said in Large Exercise By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - China has massed thousands of troops and will deploy some of its most high-tech weaponry in war games to practice capturing a Taiwanese island and attacking an aircraft carrier, a state-run newspaper said Friday. The drills, involving land, sea and air forces and code-named ``Liberation One,'' begin this month on and around China's Dongshan Island, off the southeastern Chinese coast in the straits that separate China and Taiwan, the Beijing Morning Post said. China's Foreign Ministry described the drills as routine. ``Every country has military exercises, this is normal,'' a spokeswoman said. But a report on a Web site operated by the government's Xinhua News Agency said they were ``a military warning'' to the administration of Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian. Chen has angered Beijing by refusing to endorse its view that China and Taiwan are one country. The exercises are China's first large-scale war games since…

2001-06-02, Serge Pod: Friday June 1 11:25 AM ET China Targets Poor Countries on FC-1 BEIJING (AP) - China is targeting poor countries for sales of a new advanced but inexpensive fighter jet, an official newspaper said Friday. The FC-1, developed with Pakistan, aims to replace outdated warplanes in Asia, Africa and South America, the Guangzhou Daily reported. The FC-1, or Fighter China 1, will offer performance comparable to France's Mirage III or Russia's MiG-27, the newspaper reported. It said China's military has ordered 100 planes and Iran is considered a likely customer. The report didn't give the price of the aircraft or say when it would be delivered. But the Web site of the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists, which monitors weapons development worldwide, said each FC-1 plane could cost $10 million to $15 million. U.S. F-16 fighters cost about $20 million each. China's weapons industry sells widely in developing countries, which often cannot afford weapons from the United States, Europe or Russia. The FC-1…

2001-06-01, Serge Pod: Boeing, Russia Jet Partners? Boeing`s talk of teaming up with Russia on an all-new passenger jet could lead to a partnership between two countries rich in aerospace heritage, but some observers doubt a joint venture will come to fruition. Thomas Pickering, Boeing`s senior vice president of international relations, elaborated last week on a recent agreement between Boeing and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, telling journalists in Europe the company might develop an aircraft, possibly a regional jet, as part of the partnership. Russians would build the jet with Boeing's help. Russia offers a tantalizing market, but Boeing would be venturing into new territory. A regional jet would be smaller than any passenger jet Boeing has built. Aviation consultant Adam Pilarski questioned how much Boeing understands regional jets, whose customers usually are not the same ones that buy Boeing`s bigger airliners. The regional-jet market is highly competitive, with Bombardier, Embraer and Fairchild Dornier leading the…

2001-06-01, Serge Pod: Russian Aerospace Agency Works on Manned Mission to Mars The Russian Aerospace Agency has announced a tender for design bureaus and space companies to define details of the first manned flight to Mars. Experts think that the program will be presented in 2005, and the flight may take place in 2015-2020, Director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems Academician Anatoly Grigoryev has told Itar-Tass. Current information about Mars is incomplete, experts say. Fragments of the planet are being studied, but it is so far impossible to have a full picture or confirm the versions of life there. The data gaps can be filled only in the manned space flight. Technical considerations of the program have been done for more than 10 years in various Russian organizations. The task of the manned space flight to Mars was not set, but much was done in that sphere. ``The manned flight to Mar is a super-task, but it is quite workable technically. Certainly, there are still details to be worked on for the next few…

2001-06-01, Serge Pod: Soviet SST for Sale on Internet For sale: Soviet-built supersonic Tu-144LL jetliner. Top speed 1,650 mph 2,673 kph , seats 135. Low miles. Price $10 million or best offer. The plane is nearly 20 years old, but was fully refurbished for high-speed flight testing by NASA four years ago and would make a stunning executive jet or, more realistically, a spectacular flying billboard for corporate advertisers. AVIA.RU - Информационное агентство "Российская авиация и космонавтика"

2001-05-31, dsamoilov: Jane's Defence Weekly 30 May 2001 The first of four C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifters to be acquired by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) under a lease agreement with the US Air Force arrived at Royal Air Force (RAF) Brize Norton in southern England on 23 May. The aircraft, which will conduct its first operational sortie in early June, was formally accepted at Boeing's Long Beach facility in California on 17 May.

2001-05-29, Serge Pod: Putin Finalizes Open Skies Treaty President Vladimir Putin on Monday finalized Russia`s ratification of the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, allowing other countries to conduct surveillance flights over Russian territory. The Kremlin press service said that Putin signed the law ratifying the treaty, which the two houses of parliament passed this spring. The Open Skies Treaty was negotiated between countries that belonged to NATO and the Soviet-era Warsaw Pact. The U.S. Senate ratified the agreement in 1993. Under the pact, each country is allotted a quota of flights it can make over other countries` territories using specified aircraft with sensors to monitor military activity. AP AVIA.RU - Информационное агентство "Российская авиация и космонавтика"

2001-05-29, Serge Pod: Greece delays purchase of Eurofighter until 2008 25 May 2001 Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, on behalf of the Greek government, has confirmed that it intends to postpone by three years, to 2008, it's contract for the purchase of 60 Eurofighter plane. This decision has had to be taken by the Greek government due to budgetary constraints and a weak economic outlook. See the Defence Analysis in-depth article on this topic at:- Aegean Defence Modernisation Cancellations The Defence Minister did confirmed that Greece still intends to purchase the 60 Eurofighter jets and retain the option to buy an additional 30, at a total cost of over 5.0 Billion euros. Greece had indicated at the end of March that this major purchase would be delayed until after 2004. However at that time they did not confirming that they still wanted to go ahead with the purchase the Eurofighter jets. Eurofighter is a joint project by the European defence giant EADS, which involves Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and BAE…

2001-05-22, Serge Pod: Global Space Race Heats Up 21 May 2001 Russia's Security Council ordered the formation of the Russian Military Space Forces by June 1. Originally an independent sub-service reporting directly to the General Staff, Russia's Military Space Forces were placed under the control of the Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN) in1997. The reinstatement of the military space force not only is a reversal of that decision, but also an effort to revive the influence space once had in military planning. The Space Forces will work with Russia's commercial space program, Rosaviakosmos, or the Russian Aeronautics and Space Agency (RASA). By capitalizing on Russia's commercial satellite capabilities, Military Space Forces will launch and operate dual-purpose satellites for communications, navigation and high-altitude study of the Earth. The agency will have access to advanced technology though its cooperation with RASA and RASA's cooperation with other Western nations' space programs, including the European Aeronautic Defense and…

2001-05-21, Serge Pod: CASA chief offers condolences to Turkish crash families ISTANBUL, May 19 (AFP) - 14:08 GMT - The head of Spain's aircraft manufacturer CASA on Saturday sent condolences to the families of 38 people killed when the company's cargo planes were involved in two fatal crashes in Turkey in the space of three days. He also said the company saw no reason for the moment to suspend other flights by its planes elsewhere in the world. "I am here today to present my condolences to the families," CASA chief Alberto Fernandez said at a joint televised news conference with Kaya Ergenc, president of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), at the TAI headquarters in Ankara. "Everybody's heart is broken, both at TAI and at EADS-CASA," he said. On Wednesday a CN-235 military aircraft crashed in a violent storm near the eastern city of Akcadag, killing all 34 people on board in the country's worst-ever military air accident. Then, on Friday, even as funeral ceremonies were being held for the victims of the first crash, another…

2001-05-18, <Dron>: The first prototype of the "Skiff" super computer family will be presented to the public eye on May 22 at the Institute of Programed Systems in Pereslavl-Zalesskiy. The "Skiff" super computer was made in 2000 as a part of the joint Russian-Belorussian project of the development and serial production of new extreme-productivity systems with parallel architecture. The machine is designed to fullfil economical and safety demands of the Russian-Belorussian unionized state. Experts mention that both medium class machines with 10-100 billions of operations per second and superhigh productivity computers with 100-1000 billions of operations per second will be needed in the next two or three decades.

2001-05-17, Serge Pod: `Concordsky` Designer Tupolev Dead at 75 Aircraft designer Alexei Tupolev, who led the design of the Soviet version of the supersonic airliner Concorde, has died at the age of 75, the Tupolev company said Sunday. A spokesman said Tupolev, who worked on many of the firm`s passenger jets, died Saturday after a long illness. The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had sent his condolences to the family of the designer, born on May 20, 1925, the son of an equally famous father ЎЦ also an aircraft designer ЎЦ Andrei Tupolev. Alexei Tupolev helped design mass-production passenger jets such as the Tu-134, still a workhorse of Russian and other former Soviet airline companies. But one of his top projects was the creation of the Tu-144, a Soviet supersonic aircraft that so closely resembled Concorde that it was nicknamed ``Concordsky.`` It made its maiden flight on Dec. 31, 1968, days before its Western rival, but despite numerous modifications remained excessively noisy and blatantly inefficient. Its flying range…

2001-05-17, Serge Pod: Airplane Makers Told to Team Up The country`s hundreds of aviation companies will be consolidated into a half dozen holding companies by 2004 in a bid to transform the stagnant industry into a mean and lean competitor to U.S. and European rivals, the government announced. The plan, adopted by the government Friday, puts a new spin on a years-long industry restructuring by proposing to clump civil and military aircraft makers together. By setting a three-year deadline, the government showed the urgency with which it feels a revamp is needed. Its 2004 deadline is well ahead of the 2010 deadline that the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and the Industry, Science and Technology Ministry suggested when proposing the revamp to the government on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov told reporters after the government meeting that Russia has to consolidate its hundreds of aviation companies into a handful of aviation powerhouses that can compete with the likes of Boeing and Lockheed Martin of the United…

2001-05-16, Serge Pod: Russian Aircraft Industry Suffering from Lack of State Funding The total volume of goods, put out by the Russian aircraft industry in 2000, amounted to R73.8bn, profits amounted to R17.1bn and the growth rate of production was 41.4 per cent. These data were told on Friday to reporters at the government information directorate which told them about a Russian government meeting, examining the question on restructuring and developing the aircraft industry. Revenues to budgets at all levels and to social funds totalled R16.6bn as a result of operation of the aircraft industry in 2000. This points to high budget effectiveness of the industry: each rouble, invested from the federal budget, earns R2.9 in revenues. Out of products, manufactured by the country`s aircraft industry in 2000, military aviation and armaments received 69.5 per cent, civil aviation - 14 per cent, the civil products and consumer goods sector - 17 per cent. Besides, the aircraft industry enjoys a high export potential. This is true, above…

2001-05-16, Serge Pod: An-225 Reports Again for Heavy Duty After eight years, the world`s largest commercial freighter plane is to make its comeback at the Paris Air Show. THE world`s largest commercial freighter aircraft, the 250 tonne capacity Antonov 225, is on course to reappear at next month`s Paris Air Show and could begin cargo carrying operations in October. But as the giant Soviet-built aircraft, designed to carry the Russian space shuttle, prepares for take-off after eight years on the ground, a smaller cousin, the Ilyushin 76, is reluctantly set to leave the European air charter market due to noise regulations. One British airline able to gauge the effect of these arrivals and departures is Stansted-based HeavyLift, which also has long experience of the highly successful Antonov 124, the 120 tonne capacity workhorse that seems to transport most of the world`s long, high, heavy and valuable air freight. Graham Pearce is commercial director of HeavyLift, which undertook a management buyout from new owner Kvaerner last…

2001-05-16, Serge Pod: Boeing Seeks Partnership in Russia Boeing Co.`s top man in Moscow rejected charges his company wanted to conquer Russia`s aerospace industries and said an aggressive investment strategy was aimed at mutual benefits for it and Russian firms. Sergei Kravchenko, Boeing vice president for cooperative programs and business development in Russia and the CIS, said in a Monday interview that Boeing had shown its commitment to Russia with investment here of $1 billion over eight years. ``We think that the figure $1 billion in Russian programs speaks for itself,`` Kravchenko said. ``We think that 500 Russian engineers and scientists carrying out work for Boeing also speaks for itself, as do multi-million contracts for the purchase of titanium.`` In April, Boeing signed a key cooperation deal with Russian space and aviation agency Rosaviakosmos that the two said could lead to joint development of aircraft for international markets. But critics lashed out, saying it helped the aerospace giant shore up its position in…