Monday, 2 December 2019

Northern Design Bureau completed the outline design of "Super-Gorshkov"

Agat Concern

 Northern Design Bureau completed the outline design of "Super-Gorshkov": 

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 The Northern Design Bureau completed the preliminary design of the frigate of project 22350M - a modified version of the frigates of project 22350 of the Admiral Gorshkov type. This was reported by Mil.Press FlotProm with reference to an informed industry source.

 According to the publication, the designers of the Northern Design Bureau completed the preliminary design of the Super-Gorshkov, the work was completed on time. The next stage is the acceptance of work by the relevant commission; this stage will be implemented before the end of the year. To complete the design of the new frigate, it will take 12 to 18 months, the construction of the lead ship of the series will take 4-5 years. According to the source, given the timing of the development of design documentation, the construction can begin no earlier than 2021. The laying of ships is planned at the Severnaya Verf shipyard.

 The beginning of preliminary work on the ships of the project 22350М in the Northern Design Bureau was reported in September last year, officially the preliminary design of the Super-Gorshkov was launched on December 25, 2018. Admiral Viktor Chirkov, who was then commander in chief of the Russian Navy, announced the possible construction of frigates of the modified version in 2014. According to him, the Russian Navy expected to acquire at least 15 frigates of the base and modified versions.

 To date, about the 22350M project it is known that the ship's displacement will be within 8 thousand tons, the frigate will carry 48 Caliber cruise missiles. Hypersonic Zircons will also be included in the arsenal. It is planned to install a Russian-made power plant.

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Spain to buy 24 Pilatus PC-21 turboprop aircraft under € 205 Million contract

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 Spain to buy 24 Pilatus PC-21 turboprop aircraft under € 205 Million contract - Aviation Today: 

 The Pilatus PC-21 to replace the Spanish Air Force Casa 101 fleet for basic pilot training Spain has chosen Pilatus
Spain has chosen Pilatus PC-21 high-performance turboprop aircraft to replace the Spanish Air Force’s Casa Aviojet C-101 jet trainers. The PC-21 won over the Beechcraft T-6A Texan II and Embraer Super Tucano.

 Spain’s decision was announced on November 26 on the Government’s procurement platform, Plataforma de Contratacion del Sector Publico (PCSP), but has not yet been officially announced by the Spanish Ministry of Defense.

 According to PCSP, Pilatus will supply 24 PC-21 trainer aircraft and its Integrated Training System (ITS) under a contract worth 204.75 million euros. The ITS will include an emergency ejection trainer, two cockpit simulators and two network-connected flight simulators, as well as an initial logistics package.

 The delivery schedule is very tight, since the first C-101s will begin to be withdrawn starting from September 2021. The first six PC-21s and a simulator will be delivered by March 2020 to allow the training of the first eight instructors . The PC-21 will be named E.27 by the Spanish Air Force.

 No decision has yet been taken about the replacement of Spain’s Northrop SF-5M Freedom Fighters, currently used for advanced training. A possible scenario could include the purchase of the M-346 as per our previous analysis.

 Written by Matteo Sanzani


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Defense Ministry Tests Dagger Hypersonic Missile in Arctic

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 Defense Ministry Tests Dagger Hypersonic Missile in Arctic: 

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 The Department of Defense has tested the dagger hypersonic missile in arctic conditions. According to TASS, citing two sources in the military-industrial complex, the rocket launch took place in mid-November this year.

 According to the agency, in mid-November, the MiG-31K fighter-interceptor launched the dagger hypersonic missile at a target located at the Pemboy training ground north-east of Vorkuta. The ground target was successfully hit. Other details of the rocket test are not given.

 "The tests took place in mid-November. The missile was launched at a ground target located at the Pemboy training ground from a MiG-31K carrier plane taking off from Olenegorsk airfield"
- said the first source.

 The agency’s second source confirmed the test of the Dagger rocket, stating that "the rocket’s speed reached 10 Machs."

 Recall that the newest Russian air carrier "Dagger" includes the MiG-31K fighter-interceptor, specially upgraded as a carrier of a hypersonic missile, which is an aircraft version of the Iskander-M OTRK missile.

 It was previously reported that the MiG-31K squadron with “Daggers” has been on duty in the Southern Military District since December 2017, and since April 2018, the MiG-31K aircraft have carried out regular flights over the Black and Caspian Seas.


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Sunday, 1 December 2019

Mendez Nunez Home From Global Circumnavigation

F-104 frigate “Méndez Núñez” - seaforces.org

 Mendez Nunez Home From Global Circumnavigation – SeaWaves – the BEST naval news since 1995

November 28, 2019 (Google Translation) – The acting Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has traveled today to Ferrol to receive and welcome the F-104 frigate “Méndez Núñez”, after completing a circumnavigation of more than seven months and traveling about 90,000 kilometers. For this act she has been accompanied by the Secretary of State for Defense, Ángel Olivares, and by the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral General Teodoro Esteban López-Calderón, among other authorities.

 Robles has told reporters that he wanted to receive the frigate to personally congratulate all his staff and his commander for “having left the flag of the Spanish Armed Forces and the Navy on a peace mission in which they have represented and they have defended Spain as only they know how to do it ”.

 The “Méndez Núñez” departed from the Ferrolan base on April 12 to commemorate the V Centenary of the First World Tour of the Magallanes-Elcano expedition. During a circumnavigation that has lasted for 232 days, the Spanish frigate has carried out different naval operations and maneuvers at various points of its deployment.

 Already docked the ship in the Arsenal, the minister has embarked and has addressed the crew to thank them for the work done and congratulate them for the hard months of navigation and the image they have provided of Spain in all the countries they have visited. He has then authorized them to disembark to meet their families.

 The frigate came out with 214 troops and returns with 208, although up to 250 people have participated in the deployment. 20% of the crew have been women.

 The frigate “Méndez Núñez” was put to sea on April 11, 2019, to join the USS aircraft carrier “Abraham Lincoln”, as one of its five escort ships.

After carrying out various operations in the Mediterranean Sea, the Combat Group moved to the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea. On May 14, the frigate separated from the group and conducted three patrols in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and in the Arabian Sea.

 On July 27, the ship began the next phase of its deployment, navigating in the east direction, carrying out naval operations at sea with stops in port with the tasks of carrying out Defense Diplomacy, support to the national industry and commemorating the V Centenary of The first travel around the world.

 After crossing the Panama Canal, on November 4, he concluded his mission under the command of the CMOPS. He made a logistical stopover in Norfolk, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived back in Ferrol on November 28, seven and a half months after his departure.

 The frigate has visited 15 ports in 12 countries and has anchored in Djibouti, Baler (Philippines) and Easter Island (Chile). He has performed exercises with naval and air units in the US, France, Indonesia, Thailand, Chile and Ecuador, and has traveled more than 50,000 nautical miles (92,000 km).

 It has remained 232 days deployed, 189 of them at sea, which added to the previous activity involve 296 days outside its base, almost 10 months.
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Lockheed awarded $1.2B for F-35As for U.S. Air Force, Australia

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 Lockheed awarded $1.2B for F-35As for U.S. Air Force, Australia - UPI.com: 

 Lockheed Martin has been awarded $1.2 billion for 15 F-35As for Australia and long lead parts and support for 48 Lot 15 F-35As for the U.S. Air Force, which follows a historic $34 billion deal for Lots 12-14 last month.
Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin has been awarded contracts totaling $1.2 billion to deliver 63 more F-35As, in production Lots 14 and 15, for the U.S. Air Force and for the government of Australia.

 The two modifications to previous contracts, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, cover F-35As and associated gear for Australia, as well as work to get ahead on Lot 15 F-35A production for the U.S. Air Force.

 The F-35A is a conventional takeoff and landing variant of the F-35 designed for traditional air force bases and is the only version with an internal cannon. The variant was designed for the U.S. Air Force, but is also the variant sold to most allied air forces, according to Lockheed.

 The Australian deal, valued at $831 million, comes under an April 2017 contract and is for the production and delivery of 15 Lot 14 F-35A aircraft and associated red gear. The previous contract awarded $364.6 million of a $1.3 billion contract to Lockheed for the production of 110 Lot 13 and 14 Lightning II aircraft for non-U.S. governments.

 Australia has steadily ordered F-35s for its fleet, with the first ones having been delivered last December.

 Work on the Australia deal should be completed in 2023.

 Lockheed's deal with the Air Force awards $328 million to procure long lead material, parts and components for Lot 15 production of 48 F-35A Lightning aircraft, with the full value of the contract obligated at the time of the award.

 The new deal sees Lockheed moving beyond the recently completed $34 billion deal with the Department of Defense for Lots 12-14 -- the largest procurement contract in Pentagon history -- which will see per-plane cost of all three F-35 variants hit its lowest number yet.

 Work on the contract will be divided among sites including Fort Worth, Texas; Warton, Britain; El Segundo, Calif. and Orlando, Fla. Work under the contract should be completed in June 2023.


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Su-57: What Indians do not like about the Russian plane

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 Su-57: What Indians do not like about the Russian plane Military Review - Free Press - Military News. Weapons of Russia and the world.: 

 Will the Indian Air Force, having abandoned our machine, acquire fifth-generation fighters?
One and a half years have passed since India left the joint project with Russia to create the fifth generation FGFA fighter (Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft). Motivating the exit, New Delhi said that the Su-57 aircraft, on the basis of which a car should be created for India, is of poor quality. Its characteristics are so weak that the aircraft can not be attributed to the fifth generation.

 The retired Indian lieutenant general P. Katosh , a veteran of special forces, criticized the media as hasty and not in the interests of the country. Moreover, the promise of the Indian government to independently, without attracting foreign specialists and technology, to create its fifth generation fighter, the general considers not only unrealistic, but also ridiculous.

 Katosh negatively assesses the massive information attack on the FGFA project, which the government initiated at one time: “It would be better if these media outlets covered the ineffective functioning of our Ministry of Defense with its poor planning. Remember, the Indian Air Force previously opposed the joint development of the 5th generation fighter with Russia. It was, in fact, the deliberate refusal of our Ministry of Defense to jointly implement a major project using foreign technologies. Does anyone really believe that India will develop a new generation fighter itself, without cooperation with foreign companies? Why didn’t they begin to develop the project with Russia, didn’t they begin to refine it, adjust it to your own needs? ”

 The general, one and a half years after the adoption of the destructive decision, notes that the Russian designers have not been sitting all this time, idly by. What during this time the design of the Su-57 was made "for several dozen changes." And this indicates the improvement of the fighter before taking it into service.

 So, what did India “incriminate” to the Russian plane? The fact is that all the claims, and there were few of them, for the most part repeated the criticism that the Russian fighter was subjected to by military experts who lobbied the products of Lockheed Martin - F-35 - the main competitor of Sukhoi Design Bureau.

 The main complaint is that the Su-57 does not have sufficient invisibility for the enemy radar. And therefore it can not be considered a fifth generation aircraft. Significant effective scattering area (EPR) of a Russian aircraft (larger than that of the F-35), according to theoretical estimates, is predetermined by the geometry of its glider. And mainly - nozzles and air intake.

 But so far the round nozzle has been replaced with a flat one, which became possible when switching from the first-stage engine to the second-stage engine. Thus, noticeability in both the radar and infrared spectra decreased.

 The expert community has more questions about the Su-57 air intakes, because it uses direct air ducts through which the enemy’s radar “sees” the turbine blades. In American aircraft F-22 and F-35 air ducts are S-shaped.

 It would seem - a blatant design error. However, Sukhoi Design Bureau cannot be suspected of amateurism. The scheme with direct air intakes is selected in order, firstly, to increase engine power due to greater air flow. And secondly, to get internal compartments for larger missile and bomb weapons. The use of S-shaped air intakes in the F-22 and F-35 led to such a layout of the aircraft, in which the stock of missiles and bombs on internal suspensions is significantly less than that of the Su-57.

 At the same time, the design of the air intakes (if they are covered with an anti-radar grid) does not so much reduce stealth. There is great confirmation of this. Two prototypes clashed at a tender for the creation of an attack fighter for the Air Force, Navy and the US Marine Corps: from Lockheed Martin X-35 (future F-35) and from Boeing X-32. The X-32 had a direct air intake, but in terms of EPR, both aircraft were almost identical. So it’s not so simple in the field of stealth technologies. And a speculative assessment of the level of stealth is rarely when it coincides with the real state of affairs. Well, the X-32 tender lost for a completely different reason - it was poorly adapted for use on universal landing ships operated by the US Marine Corps.

 Even the Indians were dissatisfied with the engine of the AL-41F1 fighter, allegedly it is "weak." However, the main characteristic used to judge whether an engine meets its requirements is not the thrust it develops, but the thrust-to-weight ratio of the aircraft. That is, the ratio of the total thrust of the fighter engines to its mass.

 And here the F-35 has the weakest positions. Its thrust-to-weight ratio with normal take-off weight is 0.89. According to this parameter, the aircraft belongs to the group of fighters that appeared in the 60s-70s: the French Mirage, the American F-4 and F-14, the Soviet Su-17 and MiG-23. All currently operating fighters have a great thrust-weight ratio: the Swedish Gripin (0.94), the American deck Super Hornet (0.95), the French Rafal and the American F-16 (1.02), fifth-generation fighter F- 22 (1.09). At 1.13 conventional units of the Typhoon fighter and Russian Su-35 and Su-57.

 The claims were completely far-fetched. Because, for example, at the moment of contract termination, the engine of the second stage “Type 30”, which has more thrust, was already beginning to be tested. And by the time the Russian-Indian project was nearing completion, the aircraft would begin to be delivered with a new engine.

 And that would be much earlier than the year 2030–2032, when the Indian Air Force intends to get its own fifth-generation fighter.

 By the way, before making a fifth-generation aircraft, you must learn to independently make normal fourth-generation machines. True, the Indians are doing - the Su-30MKI. But this is a purely Russian development, to which Indian designers have nothing to do. The production of these multi-role fighters is established in India by Russian specialists. And it is carried out according to the license acquired from Sukhoi Design Bureau.

 In 2015, the Indian Air Force introduced light multi-purpose fighters HAL Tejas (“Diamond”), which were developed before being adopted for 30 years. But permission for their operation in the Air Force was received only at the beginning of this year.

 The Indians attribute Tejas to the fourth generation, which is still a stretch. But even in the Indian “Diamond” there are not so many Indian. An attempt to independently reproduce the American engine did not lead to anything. Most of the avionics, including radar and helmet-mounted cab equipment, is an Israeli development. Two-thirds of Russia's weapons are air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.

 In this connection, there is a suspicion that quitting the FGFA program is a bluff aimed at getting what you need for little money. The fact is that “slamming the door,” New Delhi said they would monitor the progress of the Russian development of the Su-57. And if the plane turns out to be good, then it will be possible to discuss the issue of its purchase. However, as you know, avaricious pays twice. The conversation about the sale will be completely different than what the Indians now think.

 First, the fighter line up at this point. Secondly, the price will be the market price, and not the one expected at the conclusion of the FGFA agreement. Thirdly, there will be no Su-57 production in India. Fourth, there will be no most favored nation treatment for the Indian Air Force.

 And finally, in the fifth, which is especially sensitive for India. She risks staying in the region without fifth-generation aircraft. China, India’s regional rival, already has them. What is worse is that China sells these cars to Pakistan's regional adversary, Pakistan. With whom at the beginning of this year there were air battles. Moreover, not in favor of India.


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First small missile ship equipped with the Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex preparing for factory sea trials



Минобороны России on Twitter: "Первый малый ракетный корабль, оснащенный зенитным ракетно-артиллерийским комплексом #ПанцирьМ, готовится к заводским ходовым испытаниям. Строительство #МРКОдинцово завершилось на судостроительном заводе «Пелла» в Санкт-Петербурге https://t.co/VIEelWLJgy #ВМФ #Корабли #ОПК https://t.co/LU4rzWYruW" / Twitter

 Translated by google - The first small missile ship equipped with the Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex is preparing for factory sea trials. The construction of the Odintsovo MRC was completed at the Pella shipyard in St. Petersburg. The future crew of the ship has already been trained at the joint training center of the Navy in St. Petersburg and is ready for operation of new equipment and weapons. At the end of the docking at the Kanonersky shipyard, the ship will begin factory navigation and state tests. RTOs are also equipped with the Caliber complex, modern control systems, electronic weapons, radio communications, navigation, electronic warfare and countermeasures, anti-sabotage weapons, and portable anti-aircraft missile systems. Source: https://business.facebook.com/1492252324350852/posts/2499223673653707/

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