Thursday, 26 March 2020

Another IL-76MD-90A transferred to flight tests

Another IL-76MD-90A transferred to flight tests: 

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 Alexander Peshkov17:11 03/24/2020

 Specialists of the flight test station of the enterprise began the procedure for ground testing of the aircraft.
© Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The construction of a new heavy transport aircraft, the IL-76MD-90A, has been completed at the Ulyanovsk Aircraft Building Company Aviastar-SP JSC (part of the UAC Transport Aviation Division under the control of Rostec State Corporation), the United Aircraft Corporation said in a statement.  

 The aircraft was built under a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. After the flight technical tests on the territory of the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny airdrome complex and painting into the livery of the Ministry of Defense, it will replenish the BTA aviation regiment based in Ulyanovsk.

 The report also says that ground tests of another Il-76MD-90A have been completed. Today it is at the flight test stage. According to the given program, the plane has already completed five flights.

 IL-76MD-90A is able to transfer 60 tons of cargo to a distance of up to 4000 kilometers . The width and height of the cab is 3.45 and 3.4 meters, respectively.
The launch of this machine in production is associated with its transfer from Tashkent to Uyanovsk, the digitization of all the drawings. The plane received new engines, a wing, the so-called "glass cockpit": the pointer devices were replaced with devices with LCD displays. Performance has been greatly improved.

 The first flight took place in 2012. On the basis of this aircraft, it is planned to create an IL-78MD-90A refueling tank and an A-100 AWACS. 
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Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Five of the eight pledged APRK "Borey" will be sent to the Pacific Fleet



Пять из восьми заложенных АПРК «Борей» отправят на ТОФ: 

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There was evidence that the command of the Russian Navy had decided to transfer nuclear submarines of project 955 Borey to the Pacific Fleet. We are talking about five fourth-generation submarine missile carriers, which are among the eight previously laid down for construction.

 The Izvestia newspaper reports on the transfer of Boreev to the Far East . According to the publication, submarines will be transferred to the Pacific Fleet base on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Such measures are being taken to strengthen the power of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation, as well as to restore the underwater nuclear arsenal, which was largely lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

 To date, the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet has two submarines of project 955 Borey. These are the nuclear submarines "Alexander Nevsky" and "Vladimir Monomakh", the base of which is Vilyuchinsk. These submarines were transferred to Pacific submariners in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

 With the transfer of an additional five nuclear missile carriers to the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet, its submarine nuclear potential will be significantly increased and may turn out to be almost equal to the corresponding potential of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.

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Chinese "Mountain Eagle" has become a sea: training aircraft JL-9 Mountain Eagle adapted for aircraft carriers

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 Chinese "Mountain Eagle" has become a sea: training aircraft JL-9 Mountain Eagle adapted for aircraft carriers:

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At a time when the armies of NATO countries, in fear of the coronavirus, are shutting down at bases and in barracks, hurriedly canceling all the exercises that had been planned earlier, the Chinese comrades are quite in time to fight the pandemic in parallel and continue to work to strengthen the country's defense capabilities. An example of this is the latest news regarding the Chinese training aircraft JL-9 Mountain Eagle.

 Recall that the TCB JL-9 / JJ-7B under the name "Mountain Eagle" was adopted by the PLA back in 2011. The development of the aircraft itself began in 2001 by Guizhou Aircraft Manufactory and Nanchang Aircraft Manufactory. The main tasks set for the developers were the creation of a training aircraft, modern, but at the same time inexpensive, suitable for training pilots for 3rd generation fighters.

 The last point also suggested a reduction in the training time for pilots amid an improvement in the quality of such. Earlier, the training of pilots in the PRC included several phases and degrees, and due to the banal lack of finances, it was carried out using the same type of aircraft. To achieve the level of a 3rd generation fighter pilot, a person needed to master six types of different aircraft. But even with all the stages of training on the right number of machines, the efficiency in modern conditions was quite low, because the pilots who were trained on old equipment lacked the qualifications to control modern aircraft modifications, for example, such as J-7G / H and J- 8H / F.

 The first flight of the JL-9 prototype was carried out in 2003, the official presentation was held in Zhuhai at the air show in 2006. The developers assured that the goals set for them during the development of the aircraft were fully achieved. Training at JL-9 significantly reduces the gap between initial and vocational training. Well, the financial component is respected. Unlike similar foreign-made aircraft, the cost of which starts at $ 10 million, the Mountain Eagle costs China only 8.5 million. The cost of a JL-9 flight hour is also quite low.

 Nevertheless, one more problem, which is extremely important for the Celestial Empire, which is striving at any cost to create a worthy counterweight to the American carrier strike groups, remains. Despite the launch of the second aircraft carrier by the PLA, the training of pilots who were supposed to service the aircraft deployed on them was carried out using the same “ground” JL-9, capable of flying exclusively to ground airfields and landing on them. It is clear that the quality of training in this case caused some doubt. But now, it seems, this issue has been resolved.

 A few days ago, the development company JL-9 Guizhou published images in which the Mountain Eagle is already landing on an aircraft carrier. She also expressed her desire to “win a new victory” by presenting the Chinese Navy with a marine version of the “Mountain Eagle”. Adapting to work in the new realities, now, probably, the Sea Eagle, has undergone modifications in the form of an increase in the area and contours, and, naturally, a hook appeared for landing on the deck. At the same time, prudent developers left the chassis unchanged, which will allow the aircraft to be operated from ground airfields.

 Due to the specifics of flying from an aircraft carrier, most likely, the JL-9 will require some serious improvements, including the airframe and engine, but, as the events of recent months have shown, the Chinese comrades are able to solve tasks much more global and serious, to say nothing of such trifles ...
Author: Alexander Kharaluzhny
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IDF, US to hold air exercise with F-35 jets and no physical contact

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 IDF, US to hold air exercise with F-35 jets and no physical contact | The Times of Israel: 

 Despite general ban on international exercises in light of coronavirus crisis, drill gets go-ahead because participants never meet

 By JUDAH ARI GROSS 

 24 March 2020, 10:53 am  

 The Israel and US militaries were set to launch a joint aerial exercise in southern Israel on Tuesday in which F-35 fighter jets will take part, the Israel Defense Forces said.

 The drill was permitted to take place, despite a general ban on international exercises during the coronavirus crisis, because it will be held solely in the air, with no person-to-person contact on the ground, the IDF said Tuesday morning.
The F-35 exercise comes weeks after the US and Israeli militaries called off two separate exercises due to the coronavirus pandemic, including one of their largest joint drills, the biennial Juniper Cobra.

 The military said the F-35 exercise would begin Tuesday afternoon and last through Thursday afternoon. During that time, residents of the area would likely notice fighter jets flying overhead, the IDF said.

 The military said the exercise was not in response to any specific threat but was part of its general 2020 training schedule.

 Earlier this month, the IDF called off the Juniper Cobra exercise — one of its largest international drills — in which thousands of American and Israeli soldiers were due to take part around the world.

 The Israeli military also preemptively called off an exercise between American paratroopers stationed out of Italy — one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the disease — and IDF Ground Forces.


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Monday, 23 March 2020

An-124 disk inspection ordered after uncontained failure

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 An-124 disk inspection ordered after uncontained failure | News | Flight Global: 

 By David Kaminski-Morrow

 21 March 2020

 Ukrainian authorities have ordered Antonov An-124 operators to inspect engines on the type after an uncontained powerplant failure.

 An-124s are fitted with Ivchenko-Progress D-18T engines, as is the sole example of the An-225.

 The Ukrainian state aviation administration says an investigation into the “serious incident”, which occurred to an An-124, traced the failure to destruction of the second-stage disk in the intermediate pressure compressor.

 It has not specified the incident which prompted the directive, but has instructed operators to carry out a one-time inspection of the disks in all D-18T series 3 powerplants.

 The directive, which takes effect from 25 March, is an interim measure, says the administration, and further corrective measures are set to be developed.

 Operators must conduct the eddy-current inspection of disk dovetails within six months, it adds, and send the results to the manufacturer, Motor-Sich, as well as Ivchenko-Progress. If cracks are detected, the engine must be removed for corrective action.


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Congressional Joint Strike Fighter Group Expresses Support for Additional F-35 Funding

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 Congressional Joint Strike Fighter Group Expresses Support for Additional F-35 Funding – Executive Gov: 

 Brenda Marie Rivers 

 March 20, 2020 

 A bipartisan group of lawmakers are calling on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to approve funding for 98 F-35 aircraft in the fiscal year 2021 defense policy bill to support readiness and aircraft availability goals.

 The office of Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., said Wednesday that the co-chairs of the Joint Strike Fighter Caucus and 126 bipartisan signatories are also requesting funding for “continued investment in the F-35 program.”

 Larson, along with Reps. Martha Roby, R-Ala., Marc Veasey, D-Texas, and Michael Turner, R-Ohio, said in the letter that funding is needed to support the production of spare parts and depot-level maintenance efforts to meet availability requirements. The F-35 program will also drive the U.S. economy and support over 1,800 suppliers as well as 254,000 jobs across the country, the letter states.

 “Lastly, we believe a long-term, outcome-based sustainment contract will guarantee performance metrics at a fixed-price — a win-win for our men and women in uniform and the American taxpayers,” the co-chairs noted.

 Other efforts outlined in the President’s budget request that require approval include the Continuous Capability Development and Delivery modernization effort and Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile program to support the F-35.
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Navy Concludes Dev’t Test of New Mid-Band Jammer

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 Navy Concludes Dev’t Test of New Mid-Band Jammer – Executive Gov: 

 Nichols Martin 

 March 20, 2020 
US Navy

 The U.S. Navy trialed the performance of its Raytheon-made, mid-band jammer prototype in a three-month testing period.

 Engineering development models of the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band demonstrated basic functions and data collection of electromagnetic environmental effects in an anechoic chamber, Naval Air Systems Command said Thursday.

 Tests took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent River's Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation Facility in Maryland.

 EA-18G Growler aircraft would use the dual pod NGJ-MB system to perform electronic attack while airborne.

 “Data captured during this period not only supports our initial flight clearance, but also provided lessons learned that will benefit the entire NGJ-MB test program moving forward," said Capt. Michael Orr, program manager for airborne electronic attack systems at the Navy.

 The service branch plans to begin flight tests of the system with the Air Test and Evaluation Squadron in spring this year.
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