Military and Commercial Technology: Deeply modernized missile carrier Tu-95MSM made its first flight

Sunday, 23 August 2020

Deeply modernized missile carrier Tu-95MSM made its first flight

Tu-95MSM - UACRussia

Глубокомодернизированный ракетоносец Ту-95МСМ совершил первый полет - Армия и ОПК - ТАСС

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The UAC reported that the flight took place in normal mode at an altitude of 9000 m, lasted 2 hours 33 minutes, the systems and equipment worked without comment

KUBINKA / Moscow region /, August 23. / TASS /. The first prototype of the deeply modernized Tu-95MSM missile carrier made its maiden flight. This was announced on Sunday by the press service of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec).

"On August 23, before the opening of the Army-2020 International Military-Technical Forum, while inspecting the exhibition of the latest aviation technology at the Kubinka airfield, the General Director of the United Aircraft Building Corporation, Yuri Slyusar, told the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, about the start of flight tests of the first experimental deeply modernized strategic missile carrier Tu-95MSM ", - said in the message.

The UAC recalled that work on the creation of the Tu-95MSM is being carried out jointly by PJSC Tupolev and PJSC TANTK named after G.M.Beriev (part of the corporation).

"The Tu-95MSM made its maiden flight the day before at the Beriev airfield in Taganrog. The plane was piloted by the crew under the guidance of test pilot of the Zhukovskaya flight test and development base - a branch of Tupolev PJSC Andrey Voropaev. The flight took place in normal mode. at an altitude of 9000 m, it lasted 2 hours 33 minutes, systems and equipment worked without comment, "the corporation said.

As Slyusar clarified, whose words are quoted in the UAC, the aircraft is equipped with a new armament system, a new on-board electronic equipment complex, new modified engines, new propellers. "The modernization of the fleet of strategic missile carriers will continue along this path," he said.

As a result, the aircraft significantly increased navigation accuracy and reliability indicators, extended the service life of the aviation complex, and improved take-off and landing characteristics. It has installed new weapons control systems, aircraft control, flight and navigation equipment, an onboard communications complex, a radar station, and objective control equipment.

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