LII Unveils Next-generation Fighter Cockpit
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of its' foundation, Gromov's Flight Test and
Research Institute (LII) revealed the upgraded Aircraft 597, a series-built Su-
30 belonging to LII's ⌠Test-Pilots■ detachment, headed by Anatoly Kvochur .
The front cockpit is a prototype for the next-generation crew station. It
features four king-sized liquid crystal multifunctional displays (MFDs), while
the rear display with dial instruments remains largely unchanged. Presenting
the aircraft Aleksandr Garnayev, Deputy Chief of the Institute, said that
Aircraft 597's cockpit was a step forward from the Su-30MKI and Su-30MKK
cockpits and that it was currently undergoing evaluation trials to pinpoint and
resolve ⌠teething problems■. The new version of the aircraft has already made
several flights. Garnayev said that it had the original RLPK-27 radar, modified
by the addition of a new digital processor. Allowing it to operate in ground
surveillance, ground mapping and other modes, enabling precise navigation and
target-designation and for substantially more weapons than the Su-30MKI and
MKK.
Aircraft 597 currently has no State funding and is financed by some of the
production plants Garnayev declined to specify which company, although the
suggestion has been made that IAPO, has acted as the avionics integrator,
saying only that equipment items came from many companies, including RMKB, of
Ramenskoye, and Russian Avionics (Russkaya Avionika). Because of the long-term
implications of a fifth generation design, it was decided that a pooling of
ideas from the best in the Russian industry would produce the right result.
Russian Avionics supplied the MFDs, while other equipment was provided by LII
itself. LII does have some research funding for improvin…
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