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ROSOBORONEXPORT AT MAKS 2009: GENERAL SPONSOR – A SPECIAL MISSION

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

August 18, 2009

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The Rosoboronexport State Corporation intends to sign a number of new
contracts on delivering Russian-made arms and materiel to foreign partners in
the near future. Corresponding negotiations will be held in the course of the
MAKS 2009 air show to be held in Zhukovsky outside Moscow from 18 until 23
August, 2009.
MAKS 2009 is organised by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade,
while the Rostekhnologii State Corporation is the general partner. The
Rosoboronexport State Corporation will perform a special mission of the general
sponsor of the MAKS 2009 air show.
“Despite a certain impact of the global financial crunch on every sphere
of interstate relations, including defence cooperation, we are sure that meetings
to be held at MAKS 2009 will yield specific future results in the form of
contracts, i.e. cold hard cash for national defence contractors,”
Rosoboronexport Deputy Director General and head of the delegation
Alexander Mikheev said. “We expect to sign corresponding
contracts with a range of Latin American and Arab states in the very
near future.”
At the present time India, Venezuela, Algeria, and Malaysia are the
heaviest buyers of Russian combat aircraft and special Air Force equipment (in
excess of US $2 billion’s worth of hardware were exported to these countries in
2008). Indonesia, Libya, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and other Russia’s partners in
defence cooperation pay much attention to re-equipping their respective national
air forces as well. According to Rosoboronexport they have expressed
considerable interest in such cutting-edge Russian combat aircraft as Su-35, Su-
30MKI (MKM), Su-30MK2, MiG-35, MiG-29K (KUB), MiG-29SMT, MiG-
29UBT, Yak-130 and MiG-AT combat trainers, various Mil- and Kamov-family
helicopters and air defence systems.

Most export versions of aircraft of interest to potential foreign customers
will be exhibited at MAKS 2009 as real prototypes: participants in and guests of
the air show will be able to both touch these stunning aircraft and watch their
aerobatics. Russian enterprises will also display simulators of certain aircraft for
guests of the air show to appreciate their flight performance and familiarise
themselves with their armament, first and foremost, precision-guided missiles
and bombs.
MiG-35 and Su-35 4++ generation multi-role fighters are the best
products the Russian MiG Aircraft Corporation and the Sukhoi Company have
to offer to foreign customers respectively. These combat aircraft feature
outstanding aerodynamic characteristics, state-of-the-art phased array radars and
advanced guided munitions.
The Su-35 super-manoeuvrable fighter is fitted with Russian-made
avionics only.

Experts have recently shown a constant interest in the new Russian Yak-130                                                                                  combat trainer, which is to complete the tests and enter servicewith the Russian                                                                                  Air Force later this year. The aircraft will be employedto train pilots for Su- and                                                                      MiGfamily fighters, including cuttingedgeSu-35s and MiG-35s, as well as for fifth-generation                                                     fighters in the future. Given excellent flight characteristics, the electrical fly-by-wire system,                                                             and the advanced glazed cockpit, the Yak-130 ensures efficient and safe basic training of pilot trainees, as
well as advanced training of manoeuvre unit pilots. In addition to that the Yak-
130 can carry out air strikes in the course of low-intensity conflicts.
MAKS 2009 will exhibit almost the entire range of Russian helicopters.
Mi-family helicopters will include Mi-35 and Mi-35P combat transports (both
baseline versions, and modifications, equipped with an infrared thermal imaging
system and avionics), Mi-171Sh and Mi-17N troop carriers, and the Mi-26T, the
world’s heaviest-lift transport helicopter.
The Zhukovsky air show will host almost all cutting-edge Kamov-family
rotary-wing aircraft, including the Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter and its
modifications, the Ka-31 AEW helicopter, the Ka-28 shipborne ASW helicopter,
the Ka-27PS shipborne search-and-rescue helicopter, and Ka-32 and Ka-60
multi-role helicopters.
Experts will also be able to get extensive information on Russian Ka-226,
Ansat, Aktai, and Mi-34S light multi-role helicopters.

Russia will also have on display the following air defence
systems: the S-300VM (Antei-2500) and S-300 PMU2 Favorit mobile
surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, capable of killing stealthtechnology
targets; the Buk-M2E multi-channel medium-range SAM
systems, capable of simultaneously engaging 24 targets, approaching
from any direction, at a range of up to 50 km; the cutting-edge Tor-M2E SAM system, capable of simultaneously
destroying both air-to-surface precision-guided munitions (PGM), and their
platforms; the Igla-S man-portable air defence system (MANPADS), the Nebo-
SVU mobile radar, etc.
Experts will undoubtedly be interested in modern Russian aircraft and
helicopter engines, avionics laboratory test equipment, flight data acquisition,
processing and analysis systems, and training aids, which reduce flight crew
training costs several-fold, cut down the training period 1.5- to two-fold, and
husband service lives of expensive aircraft.
Among other things, meetings and negotiations to be held at MAKS 2009
will focus on building airfields, establishing service centres and an integrated
after-sale services system, as well as licensed-production and assembly
facilities.
Another key item on the upcoming agenda covers the
problem of unauthorised modernisation of Russian- and
Soviet-made fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. For instance, a number of
East European entities, lacking special training, are engaged in this
business, which results in frequent flight accidents.

The Russian side is obviously unsatisfied with the situation at
hand and intends to hold corresponding negotiations. Rosoboronexport believes
that aircraft should be upgraded by their designers, who have the required
technologies and skills. Flight safety should not be jeopardised by either aircraft
manufacturers, or operators.

Due attention will also be paid to discussing proposal, envisioning                                                                                                 payments for arms exports and services rendered in the form of counter                                                                                              The circumstances being what they are, such mutual exchanges seem to be
attractive for certain states.
“I am sure that thorough preparations for upcoming meetings and
negotiations and our efforts in arranging lucrative deals for our partners will
enable us to successfully discharge every task, planned for the MAKS 2009 air
show,” head of the Rosoboronexport delegation Alexander Mikheev
emphasised.

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