Military cooperation between Russia and China has reached a new level. The air group consisting of Tu-95ms strategic missile carriers of the Russian Air Force and Xian H-6K strategic bombers of the Chinese Air Force conducted air patrols over the waters of the Japan and East China Seas. Russian Su-30cm and Su-35s aircraft provided escort for the air group. For the first time in the course of joint air patrols, Russian Tu-95ms aircraft landed at an airfield in the People's Republic of China. Also, Chinese Xian H-6K bombers landed at an airfield in Russia. The landings of the Russian Tu-95s were actively filmed by the inhabitants of China, shots at the end of the video.
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Arena is dangerous for infantry in the vicinity, don't know if they will reserve it for tank hunter only and not tank used to support infantry.
Video of the loading and launch of the new Russian anti-missile A-235 of the strategic missile defense system. The rocket was launched at the Sary-Shagan test site. Pay attention to the speed, the rocket leaves instantly from the starting point. A-235 Nudol missiles are designed to intercept warheads of intercontinental ballistic missiles, the missile is also capable of hitting satellites. Over time, the A-235 missile defense system will replace the A-135 Amur complex on combat duty, whose missiles are guided by the Don-2N radar and are the basis of Moscow's strategic missile defense system. The transport and launch container of the missiles is made of fiberglass. Perhaps such a quick launch of the rocket is due to the use of directed explosion technology.
The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of classes with mobilized military personnel. The video shows the Russian BTR-D armored personnel carrier and the Fagot anti-tank system. The BTR-D was created on the basis of the BMD-1 armored vehicle and was supposed to replace it, since the BMD-1 could only carry 5 troops. The machine was put into service in 1974 and is in service with Russia and Ukraine. Unlike many other Soviet vehicles, the BTR-D was not exported. The BTR-D can be armed with two 7.62 mm PKT machine guns, an AGS-17 grenade launcher or a 12.7 mm Kord machine gun, other weapons were also used. The crew of an armored vehicle of 3 people and 10 paratroopers is protected by aluminum armor. The machine was used in Afghanistan and has proven itself well. The range of the armored vehicle is 500 km, the speed along the highway is 60 km/h. On the basis of the BTR-D, a whole family of combat vehicles and combat support vehicles for the Airborne Forces was created.
I believe that one of the Chinese dissatisfaction factors with the Russians in the CR929 project is the PD-35 engine, this delayed can increase the Chinese frustration with the Russians.
economic problem and a lot things changed after sanctions. PS-90/PD-14/PD-8 are much more needed than PD-35 so its obvious this project delayed.
China's own 78,000 lbs thrust engine CJ-2000 program going really well.
That part of the sanctions I had seen somewhere but I couldn't verify. Does this mean that the CJ-2000 is a permanent replacement for the PD-35 for the CR929?
UAC handed over another batch of Su-35S aircraft to Russian troops
The government reported that the multi-functional fighters passed a cycle of ground and flight tests and "made a flight from the KnAAZ airfield to the place of duty"MOSCOW, 3 December. /TASS/. The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) of Rostec has transferred a batch of Su-35S multi-role fighters to the Russian troops, according to the website of the Russian government.
The UAC aviation enterprise in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (PJSC UAC is part of the Rostec state corporation) has manufactured and handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defense another batch of new Su-35S aircraft.
The government also reported that the multifunctional fighters had passed a cycle of ground and flight tests and "made a flight from the KnAAZ airfield to the place of duty."
"Today, the production capacities of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant are fully loaded. We supply aviation equipment within the time frame stipulated by the contracts, meeting the needs of the Russian Ministry of Defense in modern aviation complexes. To fulfill production programs, the enterprise continues technical re-equipment and re-equipment with the necessary equipment," - the press service quotes the words of the general director of the UAC, Yuri Slyusar.
The report also notes that in 2022, over 500 new production workers and engineers were employed at KnAAZ. The same number of new specialists are planned to be recruited for workers and engineering specialties next year.
What I got from reading a bunch of disparate news was that the construction of the test bench for the PD-35 is delayed. They were likely going to use foreign contractors to design and build it, the PD-14 test bench was built by a Canadian company for example, this is a large test bench which can test serial produced engines. So they basically are going to cobble up a test bench for PD-35 using existing facilities close to their plant and once that is ready in like a couple of years they will test the PD-35. The gas generator for the PD-35 engine has already gone through its tests and I heard nothing about problems with that. In fact they said it had less problems than PD-14 when it was in a similar stage of the design cycle. But they need the test bench to test the whole engine on the ground.
Now, this is my own opinion, but there is another test bench in Russia which might be able to test PD-35, the test bench which was used to design the NK-32 engine at Samara, and which is being modified to test the Izdeliye RF engine for the PAK DA. But Samara is a fair bit away from Perm so I kind of doubt they want to use that. Probably will also be busy with Izdeliye RF like I said.