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Russian Air Force To Acquire New Aircraft, Helos, Bolster Arctic Presence
Dec. 2, 2014 - 03:45AM | By JAROSLAW ADAMOWSKI |
WARSAW — Russia’s Ministry of Defense has unveiled plans to acquire more than 150 new aircraft and helicopters in 2015 as part of plans to bolster and modernize the country’s Air Force.

Col. Igor Klimov, the spokesman for the Russian Air Force, told local news agency ITAR-TASS that, in the forthcoming year, the Air Force will focus its efforts on strengthening its military presence in the Arctic.

Under the plan, the new aircraft will include Sukhoi Su-34 bombers, Su-30SM and Su-35S fighters, Kamov Ka-52, Ka-226, Mil Mi-8AMTSh, Mi-28N and Mi-35 helos, Yakovlev Yak-130 advanced jet trainers, as well as Ilyushin Il-76MD-90 transport aircraft.

The Russian Air Force will also acquire new Nebo-M, Gamma and Sopka radars to boost its air surveillance capacity, Klimov said.

The latest announcement follows the recent establishment of the Arctic Strategic Command by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Arctic has traditionally been a sphere of “special interest” to Moscow.

“It is a concentration of practically all aspects of national security — military, political, economic, technological, environmental,” Putin said April 22 at an expanded meeting of the country’s Security Council. ■

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MOSCOW, December 4. /TASS/. First Russian fighter jet of the fifth-generation fitted out with a second-stage engine is expected to make a maiden flight in 2017, Vyacheslav Massalov, the Director General of the United Engine-Building Corporation said on Thursday. He said the second-stage engine will be 17% to 18% more efficient than the engine of its predecessor, the G4 aircraft. “The aircraft that’s known as Item 30 at present and that has a second-stage engine is supposed to make its maiden flight in 2017,” Massalov said. “The efficiency of the new engine is 17% to 18% higher than that of the first-stage engine.” In particular, the new engine consumes notably less fuel. The maiden flight of fifth- generation jet fitted out with the first-stage jet took place in 2010, Mikhail Pogossian, the chief designer of the corporation said last summer. The supplies contract for those aircraft is expected to be signed in 2015.

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Deployment of Su-14 fighters 27SM3 Air Base Belbek in Crimea in late November 2014

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- The Ministry of Defense has approved on 3 December last 2 new Su-35S. These units come into service in the Military District Oriental, thus operates 20 units of this type.
Source: ruaviation

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In a press release dated December 2, 2014 the company "RAC MiG" announced that it had completed all its aircraft deliveries in 2014 to the Ministry of Defence.
Deliveries are for hunters dedicated to the Fleet Air Arm. Thus, it is 8 MiG-29K single-seater and 2 seater MiG-29KUB who joined the Russian Navy.
These deliveries occur in the context of an order for 24 aircraft (20 MiG-29K and 4 MiG-29KUB ) established February 29, 2012.Source: bmpd

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- The Western Military District received the last 2 December 8 interceptors modernized MiG-31BM. They are based on the air base in Tver.Source: Itar-Tass

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The Aviator factory, based in Samara, is about to deliver a new An-140 for the Russian Navy. The aircraft made its first flight on November 29, 2014. It is the eighth aircraft of this type for the Ministry of Defence, who ordered 15 units in December 2011, for the Air Force and Navy. The plane, registered RF-08853 (serial number 14A005) is the third light transport aircraft for the Russian Navy.Source: bmpd

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