Space Shuttle/F-22 and «Buran» / PAK FA - which could be similar?
Going on these days at Le Bourget (France) 48 th International Aerospace Salon de Paris once again led to a surge of interest in a Russian fighter aircraft developed by the fifth-generation PAK FA (promising aviation complex tactical aviation). Interviews Chapter consortium «Dry» / MiG Mikhail Pogosyan state television «Russia» only give fuel to the fire.
There is still the subject of guesswork is the beginning of flight tests PAK FA, promised in December that year. Здесь до сих пор стоит разноголосица. There still is discordance. For example, on 17 June at a meeting of the state defense order, Deputy Defense Minister for Armaments Vladimir Popovkin announced that the Russian fifth generation fighter aircraft is practically ready, and in December it would begin flight testing. The completed production of the first fifth-generation aircraft, which will not be flying, and ground testing at the Summer Research Institute in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. According to Ivanov, the test sample is tested for strength, static and other characteristics. «This will be done this year», - he said (these two statements are taken from tapes of Russian Information Agency).
So what will be - flying (Popovkin) or static (Ivanov) test? Judging by the fact that the first sample PAK FA (three in the assembly in Komsomolsk-on-Amur APO) has not yet brought them to Leah. Gromova, it could be the beginning of this year, namely, static tests. A feature of PAK FA from the Su-27 is the prototype of the aircraft are not manufactured at the pilot plant OKB im. Sukhoi in Moscow (it was built the first three test aircraft), and immediately to the serial plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
However, the move to interview Mikhail Pogosyan program «Vesti», which came on the air yesterday, June 18.
Judging from the very careful and ornate replies director of the consortium «Dry» / MIG (http://www.militaryparitet.com/telet...teletype/5539/), coming in August at the Moscow Aviation and the prototype of the aircraft cabin will not be displayed, as promised earlier. But do not anticipate - suddenly appears.
Very intriguing is the following statement Poghosian: «Well, in the perspective of the fifth generation already, and the establishment of unmanned vehicles.Of course, military aircraft are moving in the direction of creating such high-complexes, which solve different tasks simultaneously, and provide information for decision-making to those who governs them ».
Space Maybe this will seem absurd, but I immediately recalled the analogy between the development in the United States and the USSR reusable transport spacecraft - Space Shuttle Shuttle and «Buran». As you know, the first flight of an American ship was in 1981 with the crew on board. Sovetskiy «Buran» behind almost a decade and took off into space in 1988, but the unmanned mode.At that time, the Soviet press was a lot of rave reviews on the fly «Buran», namely the ability to perform automatic flight commands from Earth.Even wrote that the Soviet spacecraft were four blocks of electronic equipment, and the Americas - five, and that the Soviet Union in the best of industry to overcome the backlog of the West in the microelectronics and automated control systems, and finally something ahead.All Soviet newspapers vying gave enthusiastic expression second female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Svetlana Savitskaya observed landing «Buran» runway at Baikonur Cosmodrome: «No pilot would not put« Buran »better!».
Is «Dry» decided to repeat this landmark event, and initially planned to equip the PAK FA unprecedented extensible electronic architecture, «Artificial intelligence» and advanced digital control system that will allow it to operate without the crew on board? In this case, after passing through a series of upgrades, PAK FA could become the world's first unmanned fifth-generation fighter aircraft.And the long suffering http://www.aviaport.ru/news/2001/12/05/19873.html ). Aviation fans forgiven would be equally unprecedented delay in the establishment of PAK FA, it Pogosian in 2001 on the radio «Echo Moskvy» promised to raise the «five» in 2006-2007 (http://www.aviaport.ru/news/2001/ 12/05/19873.html).The Americans with their praise F -22 and F -35 has not yet made such attempts.
Leonid Nikolaev.
Source:www.militarypatritet.com
Date:20.06.2009
