China Air Show 2004 and other Air Shows, More info... ?

[Iamandi]

At www.sinodefence.com a news is borned in link with China Air Show 2004 - about SU-27 license production in China.
In present, when in Le Bourget and Farnborough Russian planes not apear for some reasons, what happend in other shows in 2004? What new things have russians? New Contracts? News in general...

[Iamandi]

A fragment from Rosoboroexport press release:


"ROSOBORONEXPORT STATE CORPORATION PRESENTS RUSSIAN AVIATION INDUSTRY AT AIRSHOW CHINA’04

According to the decision of the Russian Government, Rosoboronexport State Corporation is assigned as the coordinator of the Russian exposition at the 5th Zhuhai Airshow and presents under its auspices more than 40 Russian defence enterprises, research centers and design bureaux.

About 200 items of state-of-the-art aviation weaponry and equipment as well as more than 100 types of double-use and civil application products are being demonstrated by means of dummies, posters and leaflets.

Russian exposition is made out with due regard to world trends in current warfare and major requirements of the armed forces in Asia. So, a number of export models of Su-family a/c, including the Su-27SK and Su-30MK multi-mode fighters, SU-39 multi-mode strike fighter, Su-32 fighter-bomber are widely demonstrated here.

Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company for the first time demonstrates here single-seat multi-mode upgraded Su-27SK fighter, which, by its performances, corresponds to the aircraft of “4+” generation and can engage by its high-precision guided missiles not only air targets but the whole range of ground and sea targets as well. It has high maneuverability and the best in the world flight characteristics.

MIG Aircraft Construction Corporation of Russia demonstrates the guests and participants of the Airshow capabilities of Mig-31E fighter-interceptor.

Airshow guests may also acquaint with high performances of Yak-130 combat training aircraft, operational-and-strategic military transport Il-76MF aircraft and small-size tactical air reconnaissance system Pchela-1

War conflicts in mountains and in deserts of a number of countries of Asia and Africa have clearly shown a specific role of helicopters - strike-combat, transport and reconnaissance. Therefore, a great emphasis in the Russian exposition is placed upon export Mil and Kamov helicopters: Mi-28 NE, Ka-50, Ka-50-2 combat helicopters, Ka-60 multi-mode helicopter, Mi-35, Mi-35P and Mi-35M combat transport helicopter, Mi-17-1V assault transport helicopter, Mi-171SH combat transport helicopter, Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter, Ka-29 shipborne combat transport helicopter and Ka-31 radar patrol helicopter.

Specialists and guests of the Airshow will be certainly interested in the Mi-26 heavy combat transport helicopter designed for ensuring maneuvers of troops with combat equipment, transportation of large lots of cargo with total weight up to 20 tons. As a landing helicopter, it can carry up to 82 commandoes. Mi-26 has mastered great experience of operation in many countries of the world, including Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Peru and Somali.

Mi-35M combat transport helicopter, presented by Rostvertol rotorcraft Company incorporates results of a “deep” up-gradation of the famous Mi-35 combat transport helicopter. Due to its equipping with modern avionics, high precision navigation and night-vision systems, the combat power of the helicopter is substantially improved. It is now capable to perform landing operations and application of armament round o’clock and in all weather conditions.

Unlike previous years, Rosoboronexport widely demonstrates for the first time the models of the air defense missile system (ADMS) armament and military equipment – from Igla portable air defense missile systems to S-300 long-range air defense missile systems. Specialists and guests of the Airshow will have a chance, in particular, to acquaint with the capabilities of the Favorit S-300 air defense missile system capable of engaging non-strategic ballistic missiles with a launching range of up to 1000 kilometers and also with such air defense medium- and short-range missile systems as Tor-M1, Pechora-2M, Tunguska-M1 antiaircraft gun/missile system, Osa-AKM air defense missile system, Shilka antiaircraft self-propelled launcher and Igla system.

Rosoboronexport exposition will also represent a wide range of other products of Russian defense industry according to the Airshow subjects, including turbojet and turbo-shaft engines for combat aircraft and helicopters, modern air-to-air guided missiles, airborne radar stations, airborne radar sighting systems, various elements of aircraft and helicopter equipment, avionics ground test equipment, systems of acquisition, processing and analysis of flight information.

Rosoboronexport State Corporation is confident that participation of Russia in Airshow China’04 will become an important step in the expansion of military-technical co-operation of Russia with the countries of Asian continent.

All visitors of the 5th Airshow China are kindly invited to Rosoboronexport State Corporation exposition at Pavilion No. 1, Display No. 1A1/2"


October 29, 2004

Iama

[Iamandi]

And a new article from a press release, about a mini AWACS on helicopter:

"On 21 July the Russian delegation at Farnborough International’2004 held a presentation of the Ka-31 radar picket helicopter for the delegations of a number of foreign countries visiting the Airshow. Mr. Sergey Mikheev, the KAMOV Company President/General Designer, was present at the event.

As it was stated at the presentation, many countries of the world are feeling an acute need now for mobile reconnaissance means that could provide quick information for the armed forces and ensure constant surveillance of maritime, land and air boundaries of a nation.

A regular use of conventional heavy and expensive AWACS aircraft for these purposes is onerous and therefore a number of countries are showing interest now in purchasing more efficient reconnaissance means like the Ka-31 radar picket helicopter that can rather effectively perform the missions assigned.

The Ka-31 is a universal air system that can be used to solve both military and civil missions in war and peacetime.

In wartime, helicopter is employed to provide information on air, ground and surface situation and to transmit target data to ship-borne and ground control posts.

In peacetime, helicopter can provide surveillance of air, land and maritime boundaries, economic zones and water areas as well as to ensure air traffic control and search and rescue operations.

Advanced scientific and technical concepts have been used for manufacture of this helicopter, allowing for its high performance data. In particular, it is capable of detecting surface targets at a distance of up to 250 km, air targets – up to 200 km and tracking up to 40 targets.

This helicopter has no analogues in the world. By its operational performance, this is a unique helicopter that can independently employ unorganized pads, land airfields and ships, during day and night, under usual and adverse weather conditions. This greatly expands potentialities of its operational use.

Keeping under control air, ground and surface situation, helicopter can survey 250,000 square km of sea surface for one hour of flight, which is equivalent to the territory of 500x500 km.

While presenting air situation data, a helicopter, patrolling at a distance of 100 to 150 km from the objectives covered, extends lines of detection of enemy’s air attacks to 300 - 350 km.

High reconnaissance and information potential of helicopter has a great influence upon combat effectiveness of ship-borne and coastal air defense weapons.

The Ka-31 helicopter is also of great importance since it enables the ship-borne missiles to be launched to a maximum distance. Latest anti-ship ship-borne missiles have a launching range of more than 200 km. However, their use to a maximum distance is limited by ship-borne radars' target designation. In this connection, as it was stated at the presentation, the problem of transmitting the external target designation to long-range missiles may be successfully solved due to relatively cost-effective Ka-31 helicopters.

The Ka-31 helicopter can be also effectively used in the system of coastguard and coastal defense equipped with long-range missile systems. Effective combat operation of such systems and use of weapons to a maximum distance without external target designation equipment is impossible. If used as a part of coastguard and coastal defense, the Ka-31 helicopter facilitates not only keeping under control surface and air situation in the assigned area but also using weapons to maximum distances.

July 21, 2004
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France have a Puma with radar - but i dont remember if it is just dedicated to tactical use in frontline, or it is a multimod one. Anyway, for our 2 new frigates may be an excelent thing to have something like this on Kamov, mounted on Puma / SOCAT.

Iama

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[Iamandi]

Another one from China Air Show.
Like in case of Irak, Occident arms China preparing her for transform in a new military treath for rest of the world. One of the bad chapters of China is lack of helicopters. Now, we give solution for that.

"Agusta and Jiangxi Changhe Aviation Industries
Signed A Joint Venture Agreement ...



Agusta, an AgustaWestland company, and Jiangxi Changhe Aviation Industries Company, an AviChina company, have signed a joint venture agreement for sale, production, marketing and local support of the A109 Power helicopter.

The agreement signed during the Zhuhai Air show, between Jiangxi Changhe Aviation Industries Company, represented by its President, Mr. Hu Hau Yin, and Agusta, represented by Mr. Amedeo Caporaletti, AgustaWestland CEO, allows the joint venture to fulfil the growing Chinese light twin civil, law enforcement and emergency medical service helicopter market. The joint venture between Agusta and Jiangxi Changhe Aviation Industry is a further cornerstone in a well-established collaboration started on March 1999 when Agusta had been awarded a contract by CATIC/AVIC II to design and develop the transmission for a new medium 6-ton Chinese helicopter together."

Iama

[Iamandi]

China make a new step in his way to be a electronically strong military power:

"At least one Chinese indigenous airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft (KJ-2000?) was spotted undergoing tests in Nanjing in 2003. The aircraft, which is based on a Russian-made A-50 airframe, carries a phased array radar (PAR) system designed and developed by Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology (also known as 14th Institute). The existence of such a project represents China’s latest effort to acquire airborne early earning capability, which it has been actively seeking for over a decade.
PROGRAMME

By 1992, China had begun talks with Russia about purchasing the Beriev A-50 (NATO codename: Mainstay) plane, the AWACS variant of the Ilyushin IL-76 military transport aircraft. Later, talks involved acquisition of an Israeli radar system. Three-way negotiations that began in 1994 considered four AEW aircraft for $1 billion. In 1996 China, Russia, and Israel reached initial agreement on a $250 million deal to supply one AEW aircraft to the PLAAF by installing an Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) Phalcon phased-array radar with 360 degree coverage on a A-50 plane.

In May 1997, Israel and Russia reached agreement on modifying one IL-76, as a Beriev A-50I, for $250 million, with the option of three more AWACS for a total cost of $1 billion. Russia secured about 20 percent of the deal. After some delay, in October 1999, Russia transferred an A-50 airframe to Israel for the installation of the Phalcon AEW radar system by IAI. By May 2000, Israel had nearly completed work on the aircraft.

The Phalcon deal became an increasingly controversial issue between the United States and Israel. In 2000, the Clinton Administration voiced stronger objections to the sale and urged Israel to cancel the sale of the Phalcon, saying it is a system comparable to the U.S. AWACS and could collect intelligence and guide aircraft from 250 miles away. Finally, in July 2000 the Israeli government cancelled the deal with China.

Following the humiliation of the cancelled A-50I/Phalcon deal, China turned to indigenous solutions. The Phalcon radar and other electronic systems were taken off from the unfinished A-50I, and the airframe was handed to China via Russia in 2002. Modifications on the A-50I airframe began in late 2002 to install the Chinese-made airborne radar system at Xi’an Aircraft Industry Co. (XAC). The aircraft made its first flight in November 2003, and was reportedly rename as Kongjing-2000 (KJ-2000).

Unconfirmed reports claimed that so far two KJ-2000s (one based on A-50I, one converted from a PLAAF/CUA IL-76) have been delivered to the PLAAF for operational evaluation and tests. A total of four aircraft may eventually be built, either on new A-50s purchased from Russia, or directly converted locally from the existing IL-76s in service with the PLAAF.

DESIGN

The detailed information regarding the new Chinese AWACS is unknown. However, it is estimated that the aircraft is comparable to the Russian A-50 in general flight performance.

The Chinese AWACS is based on the airframe of the Russian A-50 AWACS aircraft, which was developed and manufactured by the Beriev Aircraft Research and Engineering Complex Joint Stock Company based at Taganrog in the Rostov Region of Russia. The A-50’s airframe was developed from the llyushin IL-76MD military transport aircraft manufactured by the Ilyushin Aviation Complex Joint Stock Company based in Moscow. The most distinctive difference on the A-50 airframe is the removal of the 'glass-in' nose of the IL-76MD.

The A-50 carries out patrol missions at an altitude of 5,000m to 10,000m. The patrol service ceiling is 10,000m. The maximum flight range of the aircraft is 5,000km and the flight endurance is 7 hours 40 minutes. At a range of 2,000m, the A-50 can remain on patrol for up to 1 hour 25 minutes. The Chinese A-50 airframe also has a fixed in-flight refuelling probe, which could be refuelled by the IL-78 Midas tanker. This will significantly increase the range and flight endurance of the aircraft.
AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING RADAR
The Chinese AWACS has a unique phased array radar (PAR) carried in a round radome. Unlike the U.S. AWACS aircraft, which rotate their rotodomes to give a 360 degree coverage, the radar antenna of the Chinese AWACS does not rotate. Instead, three PAR antenna modules are placed in a triangular configuration inside the round radome to provide a 360 degree coverage.
The Chinese-made airborne earning warning radar system could be similar in capability to the IAI Phalcon, but may not be as capable as the latter. The Phalcon system could track up to 60~100 targets at the same time and guide a dozen fighters in all-weather, day and night operations.
The photos of the KJ-2000 indicate that the aircraft has an aerial refuelling probe in its nose. If the aircraft can be refuelled by the Russian-made IL-78 Midas tanker, its flight endurance and effectiveness could be further increased."

And a picture (from www.sinodefence.com):




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