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2001-11-26, Serge Pod: An-28 Carrying 17 Crashes in Estonia A chartered Elk Airways airliner with 17 people on board plunged into a forested marsh on a Baltic Sea island with virtually no warning, killing one and injuring several others. The accident on Friday evening — the first major plane crash in Estonia since it regained independence from the Soviet Union 10 years ago — occurred just two kilometers before the An-28`s designated airport runway on Hiiumaa island. Passenger John Pass, a 38-year-old Canadian of Estonian decent who grew up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, said Saturday that the Russian-built aircraft appeared to be descending normally after a 30-minute flight from Tallinn. But from his seat at the back of the plane, he saw the two pilots at the controls in the cockpit suddenly start frantically flipping control switches and the plane drifted sideways. Within seconds it plowed into the ground. ``I`ve flown on this plane many times and the approach to the airport could always be shaky,`` he said by telephone from…

2001-11-19, Serge Pod: AvWeek: Russians Admit Testing F-117 Lost in Yugoslavia By David A. Fulghum and Robert Wall/Aviation Week & Space Technology 05-Oct-2001 2:36 PM U.S. EDT MOSCOW and ZHUKOVSKY, RUSSIA — Russian officials admit for the first time they are using remains from the U.S. Air Force stealth fighter shot down over Yugoslavia to improve the ability of their air defense systems to detect and kill stealth aircraft. Also as part of the effort, designers say a small number of Russian tactical aircraft have been upgraded with locally produced, low-observable modifications to further test and improve their surface-to-air missile (SAM) designs. Acknowledging that researchers had access to the remains of the F-117 strike aircraft shot down in 1999 during the Kosovo air campaign, a senior Russian aerospace official said, "Yes, of course. We've been able to test our system against the broken pieces." BUT THE FIND IS PROVING somewhat less than a Rosetta stone to unlocking the secret of targeting stealthy aircraft.…

2001-11-14, varban: Переправлю в компьютерный форум, там как раз будет Новое местоположение темы: Help me to find out how to make my Windows 98 eng. version to read and

2001-11-12, Kalash: well, right now they're evacuating people from the empire state building... they think there is a possibility of another terrorist attack on NY. gee,,, it's been two months already. time flyes. well, anyways, hopefully we wont see any more terr-acts, and…

2001-11-08, Serge Pod: U.N. Helicopter Crashes Off S. Leone By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press Writer FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Recovery teams searched for victims off the coast of Sierra Leone on Thursday after a U.N. helicopter crashed into the sea. All seven people on board were presumed dead, U.N. officials said. The Mi-8 helicopter crashed Wednesday night near the U.N. headquarters in the capital, Freetown, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in New York. A witness heard a loud explosion, but there was no immediate report of any attack on the helicopter, he said. A large United Nations (news - web sites) peacekeeping force known as UNAMSIL is disarming combatants in a brutal 10-year civil war in the West African nation. The helicopter was traveling from U.N. headquarters to an airport across the bay at Lungi to meet the visiting Zambian army commander and his delegation, U.N. officials said in Freetown. Four Ukrainian crew members, two Zambian military observers and a Bulgarian civilian member of the U.N. air…

2001-11-07, Serge Pod: BA609 to begin ground runs 6 November 2001 The world's first civil tiltrotor is being prepared for ground run testing at the Bell Helicopter flight Research Centre in Texas. Ground tests on the BA609 will test the aircraft's powerplant, hydraulic systems, electrical systems and overall design conformity. Ground runs will begin by the end of year, followed by aircraft flight. After initial hover tests, envelope expansion throughout the conversion corridor all the way to aircraft mode will be documented in order to achieve a full flight manual certification database. After the envelope expansion, kit development and maturation flying, deliveries will begin. With its rotors in the vertical position, the tiltrotor is able to take-off, land and hover like a traditional helicopter. When the rotors are tilted forward to the horizontal position, the aircraft is able to fly with the high speed and range of a turboprop fixed wing aircraft. The transition from helicopter mode to aircraft mode normally takes 30 seconds,…

2001-10-23, dsamoilov: Aviation Week & Space Technology, 18-Oct-2001 Although careful not to confirm a specific action, U.S. Defense Dept. Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded a potential role for armed unmanned vehicles in air strikes on Afghanistan. Rumsfeld hedged when asked if the U.S. government had armed UAV's on Afghanistan missions, then added: "It seems to me you might be right." Unmanned vehicles will likely play a variety of roles during the conflict, he said, including missions that had "previously solely been conducted by human beings." An RQ-1 Predator operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reportedly has fired Hellfire anti-tank missiles on ground targets in Afghanistan, perhaps marking a significant change in modern warfare, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post. Hellfire missiles are traditionally fired by low-flying Army attack helicopters or from Navy ships. The 700-pound Predator, which can reach altitudes above 40,000 feet, allows the military to track stationary or mobile targets…

2001-10-20, Serge Pod: Friday October 19 10:57 PM ET Pentagon: 2 Killed in Pakistan Crash WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. helicopter supporting a commando raid in Afghanistan (news - web sites) crashed Friday in neighboring Pakistan, killing two people in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign. A brief Pentagon (news - web sites) statement said the helicopter crash was an accident but provided no details. The two military personnel who were killed were not immediately identified so their families could be notified first. The helicopter was in the air Friday night to provide rescue assistance, if needed, during a raid inside southern Afghanistan by about 100 special operations forces, including Army Rangers, said a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The helicopter did not enter Afghanistan airspace, the official said. The deaths bring to three the number of people killed since the U.S. military campaign against the al-Qaida terror network and the ruling Taliban militia began Oct. 7. Master…

2001-10-18, dsamoilov: During Operation Allied Force in Kosovo, the General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicle (UAV) helped locate mobile and time-critical ground targets. Now the US Air Force is considering options to increase its capability to strike those targets--a weaponised UAV is one such option. The video shows an Air Force Predator flying at low altitude above the Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada) firing a Lockheed Martin AGM-114C Hellfire laser-guided anti-tank missile at a stationary, unmanned tank. The UAV used a line-of-sight communications link to guide the missile to the target. The Hellfire "heavily damaged" the tank, the air force said. The mission was the last of three phase I Predator weaponisation feasibility flight tests that began on 16 February. The air force is preparing to begin phase II testing, which will involve flying at more realistic operational altitudes and firing a Hellfire K missile at a moving ground target. Video: http://www.janes.com:8080/ramgen /jdw/helloshot3.rm

2001-10-18, dsamoilov: The US National Reconnaissance Office has, within the space of just over one month, authorised three separate satellite launches. The launches are assumed to be in partial response to the 11 September terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC. Jane's Defence Weekly

2001-10-18, dsamoilov: The US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced its intention to sell the Royal Air Force of Oman 12 Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Block 50 or Block 52 multi-role fighter aircraft and ordnance as part of a potential $1.12 billion foreign military sale. Jane's Defence Weekly

2001-10-18, dsamoilov: Russia's only operating photo-reconnaissance satellite, Cosmos 2377 - launched on 29 May - returned its main descent module to Earth on 10 October. The flight lasted 133 days, about two weeks longer than the previous duration record for this class of satellite. Jane's Defence Weekly

2001-10-18, <madterm>: Со одной сторони это плохо так как у нас большинство оружия из "чужих берегов" Беретта М9, Сиг Сауер Р228(последний в основном для МР) Пулемети М249 и 240. А с другой сторони лучше получить хорошую екипировка сделанную "за границей" чем што то сделанное…

2001-10-10, Serge Pod: A Preview of SU-30MK Awesome Acrobatics BREATH-TAKING acrobatics! That best describes the display of the Su-30MK fighter during the dress rehearsal for the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition 2001 in Langkawi yesterday. The agile fighter plane gave an awesome display never seen before over South-East Asian skies. Equipped with thrust-vector control, the much modified Flanker performed a routine that was almost beyond imagination. How else can you explain an aircraft making a 360-degree turn in just seconds without losing airspeed and altitude? With the withdrawal of the Royal Air Force Red Arrows aerobatic display team from Lima O1, it looks like the Su-30MK will be the main contender for the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) contract for the Royal Malaysian Air Force. Another Russian contender, the MiG-29 MRCA aircraft also took to the skies after the big Sukhoi, but its display paled in comparison. Yesterday also saw the arrival of the Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 Extender…

2001-10-10, Serge Pod: Israeli Team Arrives in Russia to Investigate Air Crash A 21-member Israeli delegation arrived in the Black Sea city of Sochi yesterday to aid the investigation into what caused an airliner carrying mostly Russian-born Israeli immigrants to explode in…

2001-10-10, Serge Pod: Helicopter Shot Down in Abkhazia, Killing Three UN Observers Three people died when an Mi-8 helicopter carrying six UN military observers and three crew members was shot down in Abkhazia`s Kodori gorge where Georgian and Chechen invaders were concentrated on Monday, early reports said. The helicopter took off from Sukhumi airport at about 9:00 a.m. Moscow time and was shot down 15 minutes later. /Interfax/ AVIA.RU - Информационное агентство "Российская авиация и космонавтика"

2001-10-04, fast: Pakistan closes airspace, strict orders to shoot down any plane which reaches Pakistan's airspace ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Thursday immediately closed its airspace except one approach. Incoming flights from abroad are being diverted to the route from Karachi to Islamabad via Nawabshah, Rahimyar Khan and Lahore. Any other plane which reaches Pakistan’s airspace has been ordered to shot down.

2001-10-01, Serge Pod: British scramjet engine prepares for space tests in Australia 27 September 2001 A British scramjet engine belonging to QinetiQ is to be tested during the "HyShot" flight tests in the Australian desert in October. HyShot is an international space project led by the University of Queensland (UQ) involving the launch of two Terrier Orion rockets fitted with scramjets. Scramjets are air breathing supersonic combustion ramjet engines, calculated to perform in vehicles flying in the Mach 7 to 15 range. If these calculations can be tested and verified, the scramjet may make possible flights between Australia and Britain of just several hours duration. The QinetiQ scramjet engine has been prepared for flight on 30 October and will fly at an estimated Mach 7.6 (7.6 times the speed of sound). This will follow a mission on 24 October using a scramjet designed by researchers in UQ's Centre for Hypersonics. It is hoped the experiment will validate information already captured in UQ's T4 ground shock tunnel, a facility…

2001-09-26, Serge Pod: September 25, 2001 China tests supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES China has conducted the first flight test of its new Russian-made anti-ship cruise missile, the most potent naval weapon in China's growing arsenal and a major improvement over its other anti-ship cruise missiles, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Top Stories A Chinese Sovremenny-class guided missile destroyer fired an SSN-22 Sunburn missile during a test Sept. 15, said officials familiar with reports of the test. "This is the first test from sea, and it gets them close to an initial operating capability," said one military official. The new supersonic cruise missile is part of China's naval buildup, which Pentagon analysts say is focused on developing the capability to sink U.S. warships. Testing of the Sunburn, called the Moskit by Russia, had been expected. U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring the region had spotted both of China's Sovremenny destroyers in the northern China port of Bo Hai Bay a…

2001-09-06, Serge Pod: Armed Helicopter Market - New Rotary Realities? September 2001 The award of the long-running Australian Air 87 competition to the Eurocopter Tiger opens a number of avenues for both the winning company and the armed helicopter market. It is not be going too far to suggest that there is now a very different market for this type of product compared with even five years ago, let alone a decade. At A$1.3-billion ($670-million) for 22 Tigers, the deal looks good for both sides. The UPC one gets from this figure looks very competitive – looking at a variety of armed helicopter contracts over the past five years, it seems on a like-for-like basis to be slightly less than half the price for a Longbow Apache. But the figures suggest that Eurocopter has not had to enter a (self) cut-throat deal to win the first export customer. Instead, all the signs are that even with licensed assembly in Queensland, it will make money nicely. At the same time, coming merely scant days after the Loi de Programmation 2003-08, an award…

2001-09-05, Serge Pod: Hypersonic scramjet projectile flies 30 August 2001 The first-ever successful free flight of a hypersonic projectile powered by a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine burning hydrocarbon fuel took place last month, according to the US' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The projectile is a four-inch diameter, 20-percent scale model of a conceptual missile. On July 26, GASL Inc fired the scramjet projectile out of a large gun at the US Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Centre in Tennessee. The test is an important step towards the realisation of flight at hypersonic speeds. The test was the second of two successful launches, the first occurring on June 20. Together, these tests demonstrate that scramjet engines will provide enough thrust to power a free-flying vehicle. The tests used Arnold's two-stage light gas gun to accelerate the projectile to the flight condition through a 130-foot long gun barrel. The projectile experienced peak acceleration of approximately 10,000 Gs,…

2001-09-05, Serge Pod: Second test fire Of RD-191 engine 4 September 2001 Energomash successfully completed the second fire test of the RD-191 engine last week The test duration was 10 seconds. The engine is being developed for use in the first stage of the Angara family of launch vehicles (LV) including the Baikal reusable stage booster. RD-191 is a Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine consuming LOX and kerosene with after-burning of oxidising gas-generator gas in the main combustion chamber. The engine has been designed based on the engines RD-170 and RD-171developed for the Energia and Zenit LVs respectively. Unlike the four-chamber RD-170 and RD-171, the RD-191 is a single chamber engine. The engine is equipped with a new turbo-pump of less power, one gas generator and a new system of propellant consumption rate control. Regulation of the thrust vector is provided through deflection of the main combustion chamber in two planes. In March 1999 the engine mockup was delivered to the Khrunichev Space Centre for integration of the…

2001-09-05, Serge Pod: Rosoboronexport looks at Russian opportunities in world markets 4 September 2001 At the Moscow international air and space show in Zhukovsky Andrei Belyaninov, general director of the state company Rosoboronexport, Russia's largest arms exporter, said that the company was now negotiating export contracts worth $6.5 billion. So far this year Rosoboronexport had received $2.8 billion in export revenues against the 2001 target of $3.2 billion. The company's existing contract portfolio now stands at $13.1 billion. Rosoboronexport says its estimates show that before 2010 the annual global market demand for combat planes will stand at 150 to 200 aircraft, training planes at 80 to 90 and military transport planes at 40. Annual global market for helicopters is estimated at 400 to 500. Rosoboronexport is confident Russian enterprises are capable of winning a considerable share of this market. Belyaninov pointed to a certain "geographic bias" in the export of Russian military hardware with main buyers being India,…

2001-08-18, Serge Pod: Sukhoi Features Large Choice of Aircraft at MAKS-2001 At MAKS-2001 Air Shows, the Sukhoi Corporation has for the first time presented a comprehensive exhibit, which in addition to its in-house projects, featured the products of the corporation`s 25 affiliated plants such Saturn, the Novosibirsk aero-industrial association and a similar association in Komsomolsk-on-Amur . According to Sukhoi`s DG Mikhail Pogosyan, the corporation has presented an entirely different concept: ``a single development concept incorporating modernization and post-sale support of aircraft, creation of a fifth-generation aviation complex and access to the market of civil aviation.`` ``Today is a day of the entire Sukhoi constellation,``` Air Force Commander Army General Anatoly Kornukov declared at a press conference to mark the presentation of the Sukhoi exhibit at the MAKS-2001 air show. He maintains that when Russia`s Air Force commissioned SU-27 and SU-30 aircraft of various modifications, this was a landmark event in the…

2001-08-18, Serge Pod: Volga Dnepr, Engine Makers Clench Deal to Save IL-76 MAKS-2001 - Zhukovsky Russia`s top cargo airline Volga Dnepr, Perm Engines and JSC Aviadvigatel signed today a memorandum of intentions to equip Ilyushin IL-76 cargo aircraft with PS-90A-76 engines, a spokesman for the airline reported to AVIA.RU. Pursuant to the memorandum, one of the two Volga Dnepr`s Ilyushin IL-76s will be soon fitted with new PS-90A-76 engines, which virtually meet the new ICAO noise and emission regulations. ``The deal is deemed as the first practical step of the Russian cargo airline community towards saving of Ilyushin IL-76 plane`` Volga Dnepr`s DG Aleksey Isaiykin pointed out. Introduction of the new stricter ICAO noise and emission regulations effective from April 2002 will ban IL-76 flights in Europe. The project for saving IL-76 aircraft was initiated early this year by UK`s Air Cargo News with a proactive support of Volga Dnepr. Ilyushin IL-76 is a unique cargo plane equipped with a rear-loading ramp, which avoids the need…