The second ship project 22800 "Typhoon" launched in St. Petersburg

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November 24, 13:38UTC + 3

It is noted that in 2018 the ship will be tested and will be handed over to the customer

ST PETERSBURG, November 24. / TASS /. The second small missile ship Typhoon of project 22800 (Karakurt) was launched on Friday at the Pella shipyard in St. Petersburg, Tass correspondent reports from the scene.

"The fleet of our country is waiting for this ship (" Typhoon "- TASS comment), and in 2018 we will test with high quality and give our handsome ship to the customer," said Sergey Kukhtik, deputy general director of the Pella plant.

At the same time, the deputy head of the Russian Navy for armament Viktor Bursuk noted that the fleet was waiting for the Typhoon. "We are pleased to note that he will touch the water in the terms established by the contract," he added.

Two small missile ships project 22800 ("Hurricane" and "Typhoon") were simultaneously laid in the enterprise "Pella" on December 24, 2015. The first ship of the series was launched in the summer of this year and is on the water at the outfitting embankment of the plant.

"Karakurts" are designed by the central marine design bureau "Almaz", have a displacement of about 800 tons, their speed can exceed 30 knots. They are equipped with a complex of high-precision missile weapons (the Caliber system), modern artillery systems and power plants of Russian production.

As previously reported by Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov, the main ship "Uragan", being built in St. Petersburg, is planned to be handed over to the fleet by the end of 2017. According to him, the Pella plant must build seven such ships, five were contracted with the Zelenodolsk shipyard. Another six ships were supposed to be given to the Far Eastern shipyards. In August 2017, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed additional agreements with Pella and Zelenodolsk Plant for the supply of small missile ships of the Karakurt project.

Original post: tass.com

Small missile ship "Typhoon" project 22800 "Karakurt" ©  Anna Yudina / TASS

Small missile ship "Typhoon" project 22800 "Karakurt" ©  Anna Yudina / TASS

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U.S. to deploy 6 Raptor stealth fighters to Korea next month

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2017/11/23 23:23

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- The United States is planning to send six F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets to a joint air force exercise in South Korea next month in what is believed to be U.S. action to put maximum pressure on North Korea, military officials here said on Thursday.

"Six F-22 fighters from the U.S. Air Force are scheduled to join the joint South Korea-U.S. air force exercise Vigilant Ace from Dec. 4-8," the officials said.

The fighters will fly to the Korean Peninsula from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan and stay at an air base in South Korea throughout the exercise, according to officials. Up to four F-35A Lightning stealth fighters are also likely to join the deployment, they said.

The U.S. fleet will reportedly engage in enemy infiltration and precision strike drills with South Korean Air Force fighter jets during the exercise.

It would mark the first time the U.S. has deployed six Raptors to Korea at once and is sure to put pressure on North Korea with the overwhelming military force by the allies.

The Raptor, an air superiority fighter, is capable of flying to key enemy facilities and launching precision attacks under the radar. Its maximum speed is about Mach 2.5

The planned deployment comes as the U.S. steps up the deployment of strategic assets to South Korea in a show of force aimed at pressuring North Korea to the maximum level. Early this month, three U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were deployed to the East Sea after powerful American fighter jets flew near North Korea in the previous months.

South Korea and the U.S. are escalating pressure, both economic and military, on North Korea in efforts to bring the country back to the table to negotiate its illegal development of nuclear weapons.

The move is also sure to lead to an angry reaction from North Korea and threats to retaliate as similar operations have done in the past.

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Original post: yonhapnews.co.kr

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Russian MoD wants to create a new vertical takeoff aircraft

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Ministry of Defense: the new SPO plans to create a vertical takeoff aircraft

November 23, 20:09UTC + 3

Deputy Minister Yuri Borisov said that it was about creating cars with a short takeoff and landing, as well as with vertical take-off

SOCHI, November 23. / TASS /. The work on creating a vertical takeoff plane is planned in the new LG. This was stated by Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov.

"Of course," said Borisov, answering the question whether work is being done on a vertical take-off aircraft for an aircraft carrier. "It is logical to assume that during such a time, those models, I mean the MiG-29 and Su-33, will morally become obsolete and in ten years will require the creation of a new aircraft, such plans exist, "Borisov said.

The deputy minister said that it was about the creation of aircraft with a short takeoff and landing and about aircraft with vertical take-off. He added that for the time being these are only plans, "because we are talking about the draft state arms program, and the arrangements are planned there.

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Sukhoi manufacturing plant can roll out fifth-generation fighter jet: HAL

In December 2010, India had agreed to pay $295 million (Rs1,897 crore) towards the preliminary design of the fighter, which is called the ‘Perspective Multi-role Fighter’ in India. Photo: IAF

Sukhoi fighter jets can be used to build the fifth-generation fighter aircraft if the government decides to go ahead with the proposed Indo-Russian joint venture, said HAL official

New Delhi: The manufacturing facility of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd producing Sukhoi fighter jets can be used to build the fifth-generation fighter aircraft if the government decides to go ahead with the proposed Indo-Russian joint venture, T. Suvarna Raju, the chief of the aerospace behemoth, has said.

Raju said the state-of-the-art facility in Nasik will not require any major investment to reconfigure it to produce the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA). He said there was much in common between the FGFA and the Sukhoi 30MKI jet as both had structural similarities and the plant was well equipped to produce the new generation stealth fighter for which India and Russia have been in negotiations for nearly a decade.

“Definitely, it can be used for the FGFA. It will need a little bit of augmentation. We will not need major investment,” Raju, the chairman and managing director of HAL, told PTI. The facility at Nasik is set to fall idle after it delivers the last batch of 35 aircraft out of the total order of 222 to the Indian Air Force.

In 2007, India and Russia had inked an inter-governmental pact for the FGFA project but no concrete decision has yet been taken on it. Pitching for the FGFA project, Raju said it would be an opportunity for India to acquire high technology which has not been offered to it by any other country except Russia.

“I will not comment on the justification on expenditure on the project. But, as a country, if we are looking for fifth generation technology and if somebody has offered it to us, then definitely I would like to go for it regardless of the expenditure,” Raju said. There is a view in the defence establishment that India should not go for the project considering the possible cost which has been roughly estimated at around $25 billion (around Rs1.61 lakh crore).

The defence ministry is likely to soon take a call on a report submitted recently by a high-level committee set up by the government to examine various aspects of the project. In December 2010, India had agreed to pay $295 million (Rs1,897 crore) towards the preliminary design of the fighter, which is called the ‘Perspective Multi-role Fighter’ in India.

However, the negotiations faced various hurdles in the subsequent years. In February last year, India and Russia revived talks on the project after a clearance from then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Raju said the Nasik plant may be converted to a maintenance facility for the Sukhoi fleet if the FGFA project does not take off. The delivery of the remaining Sukhoi jets is likely to be over by early 2020.

First Published: Sun, Nov 26 2017. 01 15 PM IST

Original post: livemint.com

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Russia receives additional Su-34 frontline bombers from Sukhoi

Su-34 - © Sputnik/ Vladimir Melnikov

24 NOVEMBER 2017

The Russian Aerospace Forces has received another batch of Su-34 front-line bombers from Sukhoi.

The aircraft has been delivered within the framework of the 2017 State Defence Order.

Equipped with the latest armaments control system and air refuelling complex, Su-34 is capable of defeating both ground and water objects of the enemy.

Using high-performance guided air-to-ground and air-to-air long-range weapons with multi-channel applications, the front-line bomber can hit even small moving targets.

The Su-34 is armed with a 30mm GSh-301 gun and 180 rounds of ammunition. The gun has a maximum rate of fire of 1,500 rounds a minute and the muzzle velocity is 860m/s.

The aircraft has a highly intelligent system of radar countermeasures and defence can destroy air targets at any time under any meteorological conditions.

With a range of up to 4,000km, Su-34 can fly at a maximum speed of up to 1,900kmph while carrying a combat load of up to 8t.

“Su-34 can fly at a maximum speed of up to 1,900kmph while carrying a combat load of up to 8t.”

The bomber has a developed system of combat survivability, including an armoured crew cabin, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation stated.

Earlier in October, the Russian Defence Ministry received the second batch of Su-34 frontline bombers.

Sukhoi will supply a total of 92 Su-34 frontline bombers to the Russian Air and Space Forces until 2020.

The Su-34s currently operate successfully in the military and demonstrate high performance.

Original post: airforce-technology.com

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Turkey sets timetable for critical phase of its fighter jet program

TF-X – Image: From the net

By: Burak Ege Bekdil 

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s defense procurement authorities have given pace to their work to select an engine know-how supplier that will be the backbone of the TF-X, an indigenous Turkish fighter jet in the making.

“We may not hold onto our original target of officially announcing a technology partner (for the engine) in January, but we will come very close to it,” said a senior procurement official familiar with the program.

At the end of October, Turkey’s top procurement official, Ismail Demir, said his office would announce its decision on the TF-X engine in January 2018.

An official from Turkish Aerospace Industries, the prime local contractor for the TF-X program, said talks with a number of potential technology suppliers and their local partners have recently matured enough to give decision-makers a clear picture.

“The idea is to rely on foreign technology in order to build, in the longer term, an indigenous engine that will power the TF-X,” the TAI official said. “I think we are close to an understanding.”

The TF-X program is run by the country’s procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries. But the decision on the engine will be made by the ultimate panel that oversees top procurement decisions ― the Defense Industry Executive Committee, which is chaired by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.

In October 2016, engine-maker Rolls-Royce offered a joint production partnership to Turkey with a view to powering planned Turkish platforms and potential sales to third parties. The British company’s proposal involved a production unit in Turkey to manufacture engines for the TF-X, as well as for helicopters, tanks and missiles.

A year before that, in October 2015 a memorandum of understanding had been signed between Turkey and Rolls-Royce for technological know-how and a production unit. Under the plan, Rolls-Royce will launch an advanced manufacturing and technology center in Turkey ― the company’s eighth such unit worldwide.

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U.S. engine-maker Pratt & Whitney is also in the picture. In 2014, the company inaugurated its Turkish partnership with local aviation company Kale to produce critical engine parts for the multinational new-generation F-35 fighter jet. Kale Pratt & Whitney, the joint venture, will manufacture the parts of the F-135, the engine for the F-35.

Meanwhile, Tusas Engine Industries, a government-controlled engine maker and TAI’s sister company, is currently working to refine a 20-year road map for the design, development and manufacturing of a local aircraft engine, also with the aim of powering the TF-X.

Industry sources say the engine selection is the most critical phase in the TF-X program.

“All other design work will depend on the engine to be selected,” the TAI official said. “Once we have decided on the engine, the rest of the program will automatically gain pace.”

Original post: defensenews.com

According to TAI, the TF-X fighter jet will be a single seat multi-role aircraft mainly designed for air-to-air role with a consideration for air-to-surface capability as well. It will feature stealth and super cruise capabilities, as well as new generation avionics, such as AESA radar.

Upon engineering analysis, preliminary studies, based on information received from engines manufacturers, the TF-X would have a twin-engine configuration. In this regard, an initial agreement has been signed between TAI and BAE Systems on January 28th, 2017, in the presence of Prime Ministers of Turkey and UK. Two companies are actually bidding for the TF-X engines: GE Aviation with the F414-GE-400 and Eurojet with a improved version of the EJ-200 engine. Source: airrecognition.com

GE F414-GE-400 

Source: GE Aviation

Eurojet EJ-200 engine

EuroJet EJ200 Specifications:

• Type: Turbofan
• Length: 157 inches (4.0 m)
• Diameter: 29 inches (0.737 m)
• Dry weight: 2,180 lbs (989 kg)
• Compressor: 3-stage LP, 5-stage HP
• Combustors: annular
• Turbine: 1-stage LP, 1-stage HP
• Maximum thrust: 13,500 lbf (60 kN) dry thrust / 20,000 lbf (89 kN) with reheat
• Bypass ratio: 0.4:1
• Overall pressure ratio: 26:1
• Turbine inlet temperature: 1,800K
• Specific fuel consumption: 21–23 g/kNs dry thrust / 47–49 g/kNs with reheat Thrust-to-weight ratio: 9.175:1 (with reheat)

Source: airpowerworld.info

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PLA admiral rejects talk of J-20 fighters on aircraft carriers

Naval J-20 – Image: china-arms.com

The J-20 may not be strong enough to take off from or land on the Liaoning, and the fighter is too big for the carrier's hangar, a PLA admiral says

By ASIA TIMES STAFF NOVEMBER 24, 2017 2:18 PM (UTC+8)

Chinese party mouthpieces have been set into operation, playing up the might of the J-20, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s fifth-generation “air supremacy” stealth fighters. But some papers have gone a bit overboard, suggesting the planes are capable of swift deployment on the Liaoning, the PLA’s first aircraft carrier, and the second carrier that is expected to undergo sea trials shortly.

That assertion, obviously a step too far, has received some derisive reactions from professional observers at home and abroad, so much so that state broadcaster CCTV has to rectify matters.

In a program aired on its International Mandarin channel, PLA Rear Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong, also a well-known military commentator, admitted that putting J-20 on carriers was rather “contrived”, as the fighters were never designed to be carrier-based aircraft.

“J-20’s structural design and components are all intended for use as a land-based warplane and thus its structural strength may not have been reinforced for take-off from or landing on a carrier, as in these circumstances the plane would have to withstand huge counterforce and inertia,” Zhang said.

Nor are J-20’s wings foldable, to enable it to be parked in the hangar below the carrier’s flight deck, as space is always at a premium on a sea-going airbase.

Unlike the F-35 Lightning IIs, J-20 may not need to be maintained in a hangar with a constant temperature and humidity, as revealed in a previous CCTV report. Yet its delicate stealth coatings may be rendered dysfunctional when exposed to an offshore environment with high salinity and high humidity.

Still, the J-15 carrier-based fighters have entered mass production after technicians for Aviation Industry Corp of China reportedly took just two months to solve technical hurdles, paving the way for the fighter’s successful arrested landing tests in November 2012, just months after the Liaoning was inaugurated.

The J-15 has twelve external hardpoints for munitions including air-to-air, anti-ship and anti-radar missiles, and can cruise at a maximum speed of 2.4 Mach (2,940 kilometers an hour) with a range of 3,500 km and maximum takeoff weight of 32.5 tons.

This year the Liaoning returned to the South China Sea after it was initially deployed in the western Pacific. The carrier conducted a series of take-off and landing drills with its J-15 fighters, following a fatal accident in 2016 in which a J-15 crashed during a simulated carrier landing.

Analysts say the J-15 is almost on par with the US Navy’s Grumman F-14 Tomcat supersonic, twin-engine fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was retired from service in September 2006, having been supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

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