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В аэропорту Внуково произвел аварийную посадку самолет Ту-154.


РБК. 15.01.2001, Москва 12:30:58. В аэропорту Внуково произвел аварийную посадку самолет Ту-154. Как сообщили РБК в Московском управлении МВД РФ на воздушном и водном транспорте, 14 января при заходе на посадку самолета, выполнявшего рейс Сургут-Москва, сработал датчик аварийной сигнализации основной гидросистемы самолета. На борту находилось 65 пассажиров и 7 членов экипажа. К месту посадки были стянуты экипажи скорой помощи, милиции и аварийных служб аэропорта. Несмотря на возникшие сложности, посадка прошла благополучно. Причины возникновения неисправности выясняются.

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F-16 test aircraft is retired

11 January 2001

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F-16 serial number 75-0750 has completed a distinguished career as an advanced technology test aircraft for more than 22 years. It is best known for its service as the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI)/F-16 technology demonstrator since the early 1980s.

Aircraft 750 flew its final flight on Jan. 9, 2001 from its birthplace in Fort Worth, Texas, to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where it will be retired and placed in the Air Force Museum there.

AFTI/F-16
"The AFTI/F-16 has been an excellent platform because of the F-16's basic modern systems, the relative ease of incorporating advanced technologies and the F-16's low cost of operation and maintenance," said Don Swihart, AFTI Programme Manager at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton. "The AFTI/ F-16 has been a real workhorse in proving advanced fighter technologies, and it is fitting that this aircraft have its final resting place in the Air Force Museum."

Aircraft 750 was originally built as an F-16A, the sixth A model and seventh of eight aircraft in the F-16 Full-Scale Development program. It first flew and was delivered to the US Air Force in April 1978. Since then the aircraft has been modified extensively many times and participated in 10 flight test programmes.

The aircraft's last achievement was the very successful Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Subsystems Technology demonstration in Fort Worth during October-November 2000. The aircraft was modified with an all-electric flight control system with electrostatic actuators and a 270-VDC switched reluctance electric power system. It was the first aircraft to fly with an all-electric flight control system,…

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The Patriot Gulf missile 'didn't work'

By John Aloysius Farrell, Globe Staff, 1/13/2001


WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, supporting a decade of questions about the Patriot missile's performance, said Raytheon Co.'s famous antimissile system failed to work in the Persian Gulf War.


Speaking at a breakfast with reporters Thursday, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Patriot's combat debut in the gulf region, Cohen cited the weapon's failures when advocating increased Pentagon funding for an antimissile shield.


Confronted in the winter of 1991 by the Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and Israel, Cohen said, ''the Patriot didn't work.''


The remark by Cohen, the highest-ranking government official to say the Patriot failed, was a blow to Lexington-based Raytheon's longstanding defense of the missile's performance. His comments also could become part of the renewed debate over antimissile technology, with President-elect George W. Bush vowing to build and deploy an antimissile shield.


The defense secretary offered no further details. His blunt appraisal conflicts with the official US Army position, which maintains that the Patriot had a 70 percent success rate against the Scuds launched at Saudi Arabia and a 40 percent success rate against those fired at Israel, said Dave Shea, a spokesman for Raytheon.


Shea said yesterday that ''after extensive analysis, the Army has steadfastly maintained that the Patriot's performance during the Gulf War was excellent.''


Shea referred questions to an Army spokeswoman, who declined to comment and passed further inquiries to a Pentagon public relations officer, who did not return phone calls.


Shea noted that Raytheon has worked hard in the past decade to improve the Patriot's performance. ''Today's Patriot represents the one in the G…

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Russia`s New Rocket Engine to Go on Firing Trials in Q1 2001

The local Energomash JS is completing a new rocket engine prototype built on an
order from the Khrunichev research and production center, Energomash Chief
Specialist Vladimir Sudakov said on Friday.

The RD-191 engine will go on firing trials in the first quarter of 2001, Sudakov
told the Military News Agency. The company has fully solved financial and
technical problems that delayed the trials, originally scheduled for late 2000,
he said.

A full-size model of the RD-191 engine, which is being designed for the first
stage of Russia`s Angara booster rockets, was delivered to the Khrunichev center
for integration with the booster`s interface in March 1999. It was successfully
exhibited at the Le Bourget air show together with the booster later in the
year.

RD-191 is a single-chamber oxygen-kerosene engine with the thrust of some 200t
and high energy characteristics. It is designed on the basis of RD-170 and
RD-171 four-chamber engines, mounted on Energia and Zenit rockets respectively.
The new engine differs from RD-170 and RD-171 by having a new turbo-driven pump
assembly, operated by a gas generator. Thrust vector control is effected by
means of the combustion chamber`s hunting in two dimensions.

According to Sudakov, Energomash will carry out firing trials at its own bench
base in Khimki.

/Military News Agency/
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Женева запретила посадку российским самолетам

Руководство Женевского аэропорта сообщило в воскресенье о введении ограничения на приземления самолетов двух российских авиакомпаний. По результатам проверки самолетов Ил-86 авиакомпаний «Аэрофлот» и «Атлант-Союз», доставивших туристов в Швейцарию, были обнаружены неисправности системы предупреждения об опасном сближении самолетов в воздухе. Швейцарские власти потребовали устранения недостатков до 20 января. //dpa www.gazeta.ru

У берегов Греции пропал вертолет

Вертолет, на борту которого находились пять человек, пропал у берегов греческого острова Кея в Эгейском море. Вертолет участвовал в спасательной операции вызванной обрушившимися на побережье Греции штормами. Непогода стала причиной наводнений. По меньшей мере два человека погибли в воскресенье на острове Закинф. //dpa www.gazeta.ru

To whom are the bid invitations being sent? Is it the russians the americans or both?

French Defense Minister Alain Richard said in Budapest that France is
preparing an offer to modernize the Hungarian air force, which currently
operates MiG-29 fighters and various models of Soviet-supplied helicopters.
(Les Echos, Jan. 6)

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The Czech Republic on Wednesday issued a call for tenders for the supply
of 24 to 36 new supersonic fighters, a contract estimated to be worth at
least $2.5 billion for which the Czechs are asking for 150% offsets. Defense
Minister Vladimir Vetchy said 60 percent must be program-related, and the
rest in other areas. Bids are due by May 31, with a decision to follow in
October and deliveries from 2004 to 2008. (Reuters, Agence France Presse,
Jan. 10)
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Lobbying to resume production of the B-2 bomber, Northrop Grumman has
briefed aides to President-elect George W. Bush on "a scenario that would
produce a total of 40 aircraft at an average rate of four a year for 10
years" and at at an average cost of $500 million per aircraft, the company
said in a statement. The total cost for 40 aircraft is about $28 billion,
including engines, support and training. (Reuters, Jan. 11)
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Western Planes Also Disappear from Air Traffic Control Radar

Russian airliners are not the only aircraft to have suddenly disappeared from
the radar screen of Helsinki-Vantaa airport. On Tuesday we reported on a
situation in December, in which a Russian Aeroflot plane, which had disappeared
from the radar of Helsinki-Vantaa air traffic control, and came within 150
metres of a Finnair plane. It was suggested that the problem is most frequent
with Russian airliners built in the Soviet era.

Now the Civil Aviation Administration /CAA/ reports that such disappearances
lasting from a few seconds to a minute occur occasionally with Western planes as
well.

According to Jaakko Kaskia, deputy director of flight safety at the CAA, the
main reason for short disappearances is that the radar transponder of the
aircraft has either been accidentally been left shut off, or is not working
properly. Also, the antenna of the transponder can sometimes be blocked by the
aircraft`s fuselage when the plane banks for a turn.

Kaskia says that such problems do not cause hazardous situations, and that there
are other ways to guide the planes to a safe landing.

However, no explanation has been found for three recent incidents involving
Russian planes, in which radar contact was lost for several minutes. The longest
break, lasting five minutes on December 15 involved an Aeroflot plane which had
just left Helsinki-Vantaa airport for Moscow, and which came within 150 metres
of a Finnair plane returning from Spain.

After studying the incident of December 15, the Accident Investigation Board
/OTK/ believes that either the transponder on the Russian plane was turned off,
or that there was a fault of some kind in the signal it sent, or in the
secondary radar receiving the signal. Supporting the idea that th…

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Russia, Germany Sign Agreement on Modernization of MiG-29

Russia may remain and enlarge its quota on the European market of combat
aircraft after signing a joint agreement with Germany Thursday on the
modernization of the Mig-29 jet.

Under the agreement, signed by Russian Deputy Defense Minister Mikhail Dmitriyev
and German Ambassador to Russia Ernst Studnetz, the sides will establish a
single network for maintenance, modernization and other technical support of
MiG-29 planes in the European region.

A Russian-German joint venture, planned to be based in the German city of
Manhing, is expected to help extend the service life of Mig-29 jets in maximum,
considerably cutting the maintenance expenditure of the countries with Mig-29 in
their armies.

According to Dmitriyev, there are about 120 MiG-29 fighter jets in Central and
Eastern Europe, including the countries of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria
and Romania.

``Everyone acknowledges the airplanes are good... but they need repairs and
modernization,`` he said.

Russia and Germany have put forward the most advantageous and economically
expedient choices to modernize those jets, which will also make them adapt to
NATO standards, Dmitriyev said.

The agreement, which has been under planning since 1996, has an effective term
of three years and might be extended for another three years on mutual wish.

It is ``rather general`` and will be made more specific ``by the
military-technical commission and groups of experts,`` Dmitriyev noted.

``If the agreement is proved a success, we may exceed the limits of Europe.
There are MiG-29 airplanes all through the world,`` Dmitriyev said.
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Khrunichev DG Retires

Anatoly Kiselev, Director General Kurunichev Space Research & Production Centre,
Russia`s leading aerospace industry enterprise, has handed a letter of
resignation due to serious health problems.

Sources in the company confirm that Kiselev is indeed seriously ill, and his
resignation letter to President Vladimir Putin is the third in the past seven
months. Kiselev has been leading the Khrunichev centre since 1975, and the
centre seems to be the only enterprise of the aerospace industry that is
developing successfully.

In his letter, Kiselev named three possible successors whom he can rely on and
objected to the appointment of Nikolai Ogaryov, former director-general of the
currently defunct Rosvoorouzhenie arms exporter. According to the sources,
Ogaryov is supported by ex-president Boris Yeltsin and members of the Family.

Kiselev`s most likely successor is named his First Deputy Alexander Medvedev.

Medvedev`s appointment has been endorsed by Russian Security Council Secretary
Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov and head of the Russian
Aviation and Space Agency Yuri Koptev, Kilesev said. However intrigues of the
Family do not let Putin make a decision in the interests of the country and the
enterprise, he claimed.

The battle for the Khrunichev centre will be especially furious given that the
enterprise may soon be privatised, and finance and industrial groups would do
their best to gain control over it.

/Kommersant/


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TU-214 Receives AP-24 Certification

Sources in Kazan-based Gorbunov Aircraft Production Association said on
Wednesday, January 11, 2001 that the company received an international quality
certificate for Tu-214 passenger jet.

The certificate attests that the plane fully complies with the AP-25 aviation
regulations.

TU-214 is capable of carrying 122 passengers to the distance of up to 7,200km.
Its engines are as fuel-efficient as those of Boeing`s. The Gorbunov enterprise
has orders for production of four TU-214 at present, but its facilities are
capable of producing up to 24 planes a year

/Vremya MN/
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Aviastar Raises Output 89% in 2000

Aviastar in Ulyanovsk posted output of 938 million rubles in 2000, up 89%
year-on-year and 1.5% over the annual target, the company told Interfax.

Aviastar build and delivered six airplanes, five of which were Tu-204 and one an
An-124 Ruslan.

The company`s preliminary production program for 2001 envisages the
construction of one An-124 Ruslan for Moscow airline Ruslan-003 and nine Tu-204.

The program also envisages turning five An-124 Ruslan, belonging to the airline
Polyet, from military to civil aircraft.

Aviastar also plans to repair five Tu-204 they build before 1995.

/Interfax/
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Russia Tracks 100 Foreign Spy Planes a Month

Reuters Russia`s air force spots and tracks more than 100 foreign spy planes
around its borders every month, the air force chief was quoted as saying
Thursday.

General Anatoly Kornukov told Interfax that air defence forces had sent up
interceptors 30 times in the past year to chase off planes trying to violate
Russian airspace. There were 10 cases when foreign planes breached air defences.


Each month up to 70 foreign military reconnaissance planes were tracked in
Russia's Far East, up to 20 over the Arctic Barents Sea and up to 15 over the
Baltic Sea, he said.

During the Cold War, aircraft from both sides regularly flew missions to test
defences. That practice tailed off after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but
still continues.

Last month, the Pentagon said Russian Tu-95 bombers had been moved to the Far
North with a view to testing U.S. air defences. But Kornukov later denied this,
saying the crews were taking advantage of fresh fuel supplies to train in Arctic
conditions.
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В США создают самолет, способный поражать баллистические ракеты с помощью лазерной пушки.


РБК. 13.01.2001, Уичита 01:09:30. Компания Boeing по заказу американских властей ведет работу над созданием модификации знаменитого самолета B-747, предназначенной для лазерного поражения баллистических ракет вероятного противника. Новый суперсамолет будет оснащен лазерной пушкой, способной сбивать ядерные ракеты, находящиеся на расстоянии тысяч километров. Главным достоинством такой системы будет именно применение лазера, который благодаря огромной скорости света позволит поражать цели мгновенно. Смета работ по созданию нового вооружения оценивается в 1,6 млрд долл. Впрочем, к нынешнему моменту перспективы этого проекта не ясны. Все будет зависеть от результатов первых испытаний, сообщает CNN.

Для завершения НИОКР по вертолету Ка-226 необходимо 5 млн долл. единовременно (12.01.01 15:28:29)

Как сообщил информированный источник на фирме "Камов", для завершения НИОКР сертификацией в конце 2001 - первом полугодии 2002 годов вертолета Ка-226, необходимо единовременно 5 млн долл. Пролонгация сроков создания вертолета ведет к увеличению стоимости НИОКР.
По данным источника, НИОКР по Ка-226 ведутся более 12 лет с инвестированием в них до 15 млн долл. Если стоимость НИОКР по Ка-226 оценивается в 20 млн долл., то создание такого вертолета на Западе стоит порядка 130 млн долл.

/Финмаркет/

Омское ПО "Полет" снижает план выпуска самолетов Ан-3 на 2001 год (12.01.01 17:03:46)

Как сообщил заместитель генерального директора омского ПО "Полет" Владимир Удалов, в 2000 году были поставлены 4 самолета Ан-3 заказчикам из Норильска и Эвенкии вместо планировавшейся поставки 19 таких самолетов. Уменьшение плановой продажи самолетов обусловлено несвоевременной предоплатой работ заказчиками и их общей низкой платежеспособностью. Именно по этой причине первоначальный план переоборудования в 2001 году 50 самолетов Ан-2 в самолет Ан-3 уменьшен до 30 машин.
По данным Владимира Удалова, средняя цена переоборудования 4-х поставленных в 2000 году машин составляет около 500 тыс. долл. за самолет.
Всего в мире насчитывается несколько тысяч самолетов Ан-2, которые можно переоборудовать в самолеты Ан-3. Россия располагает общим парком Ан-2 более 2 тыс. машин, Казахстан - более 600 машин.

/Финмаркет/

Пилот самолета, сбитого в 1991 году над Ираком, жив

Билл Клинтон объявил, что американские военные располагают информацией о том, что пилот самолета ВВС США, сбитого иракскими ПВО в самом начале войны в Заливе, возможно, жив.
Сомнения в том, что Майкл Шпичер (Michael Speicher) погиб, появились после того, как в пустыне, недалеко от места падения самолета, была найдена его форма. Разведка США располагает еще какой-то информацией, однако она держится в секрете.
Военные склоняются к тому, что если Шпичер жив, то он находится в руках иракских властей. Госдепартамент США уже послал в Багдад письмо с требованием передать Америке всю имеющуюся информацию о пропавшем пилоте. //«Associated Press» www.gazeta.ru

ВВС Судана обвинены в налетах на мирные села

В пятницу суданские повстанцы обвинили вооруженные силы страны в бомбардировке трех деревень в южных районах страны, в результате чего, со слов повстанцев, погибли шесть мирных жителей. Согласно информации, предоставленной повстанцами из Народной армии освобождения Судана, 6 января авиация разрушила деревни Палвер, Падак и Йомчиир в провинции Верхний Нил. В ходе этой операции, по словам повстанцев, были ранены десятки местных жителей, включая множество женщин и детей. Правительство Судана пока никак не прокомментировало заявление повстанцев. //Reuters
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