Revealing the Secrets of Combat Operations

What makes fight aviation allmighty and unvulnarable? For the solutions we’ll go to the manufacturing unit making navy tools. This place is in Moscow, and it’s fairly uncommon, photographers are usually by no means allowed to be there. It’s such a luck to take some pictures of a secret manufacturing like this!

They’ve a number of screens, cables, wires, unusual units there. And all persons are sporting white coats. It’s onerous to imagine this place was based again in 1917 in Tsarist Russia! It grew to become the primary aviation instrument making manufacturing unit within the nation.

On the photograph above is a stand of a radar advanced “Arbalet” (“Crossbow”) which is mounted on such helicopters as Ka-52 “Alligator”. The primary capabilities of “Arbalet” are detection of attacking aircrafts and missiles of an enemy, navigation system replace, help of a low-altitude flight and  mapping.

That is “Alligator” itself. Ka-52 is the additional growth of a helicopter Ka-50 “Black shark”. “Alligator” is a brand new car made since 2008.

Perhaps the design of the system just isn’t too spectacular however they don’t care a lot about the way it appears to be like. It’s not for gloating. Rather more vital that “Arbalet” has higher technical traits than the analogous American advanced TADS.

For instance, “Arbalet” can detect enemy aircrafts on the distance of fifteen kilometres in any climate at evening. At that the viewing angle is a full circle – 360 levels. The machine merely has no “blind” zones. So no object can attain “Alligator” unnoticed.

All the things had been occurring somewhat nicely for the corporate earlier than 1991: that they had been constructing new aircrafts and helicopters and mounting fashionable tools on them. However within the 90s they ran out of orders from the state. Solely in ten years one thing began to vary for the higher – Chinese language and Indian armies started ordering radar locators “Kopyo” (“Spear”) and airborne radars “Zhuk” (“Beetle”).

That is that very “Beetle” – to the correct on the photograph above. “Zhuk-ME” FGM129 goes to be mounted on a service fighter MiG-29K/KUB which is able to fly to the Indian buyer.

MiG-29K is a multipurpose fighter of the fourth era which is the additional growth of MiG-29.

Airborne radar “Zhuk” is used for detection and monitoring of targets, mapping, airspace management and rocket hearth.

Right this moment this firm which known as “Phazotron-NIIR” is without doubt one of the leaders which make airborne radar techniques for navy aircrafts. Within the nearest future they plan to arrange manufacturing of built-in techniques of airborne tools.

Meeting of aradar system transmitter of “Zhuk”-ME” is a really elaborate work.

Adjustment of such comlicated tools can be a labor-intensive and accountable course of however younger engineers do their job persistently and confidently.

Aseembly of one other “Zhuk” – “Zhuk-AE”. They’re mounting it on a lightweight front-line fighter of «4++» era – MiG-35. The yellow factor just isn’t comb however an lively phased antenna array. It permits to extend the detection vary, detect and classify group and single objects, concurrently assault various targets with high-precision weapons and likewise to supply digital countermeasures.

MiG-35 is a Russian multipurpose fighter of «4++» era created on the idea of MiG-29M. It was firstly introduced on the worldwide air present “Aero India – 2007”. The “Zhuk” is within the nostril a part of the plane.

One curious reality: former chief engineer of the corporate Adolf Tolkachev was an actual American spy: within the interval from 1979 to 1985 he was passing secret details about the corporate tasks to the CIA.

Meeting and adjustment of the radar station which goes to be mounted on MiG-29UPG. The distinctive characteristic of the “Zhuk” that it has a modular development – it might probably cheaply and simply be adjusted for brand new modifications of aircrafts.

by way of egor-lavrentiev