ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow Region. Aug 18 (Interfax-AVN) - A number of new products have been developed and put in serial production at the Tekhpribor company based in St. Petersburg, one of the oldest avionics developers and manufacturers in Russia, as part of its diversification program.
"For instance, the enterprise has developed and put in mass production the SAD automation and monitoring system of ship diesel power plants, and the SDU ship diesel remote control system," Oleg Petrov, the company's director general, told Interfax-Military News Agency at the MAKS 2005 international air show on Thursday.
Apart from that, he said, the SIT17 fuel level control system for heat locomotives was developed to be used in railway transportation.
As for traditional products of the company, he named the SUIT new-generation fuel control and monitoring system for commercial aircraft that meets all Russian and foreign requirements. The SUIT334 and SUIT148 systems equipped with detecting sensors have already been introduced in Tu-334 and An-148 aircraft.
He stressed that the company has mastered the production of flight data recording systems in the past several years. For instance, it now manufactures the SDK-8 reinforced solid-state flight data recorder used in Mi-8 helicopters.
Tekhpribor is also developing new airborne fuel control and monitoring systems for 4++ and 5th generation of aircraft, Petrov said. He maintained that the enterprise is the only Russian and one of the three world's developers and manufacturers of vibration measuring systems for gas-turbine engines. "Vibration measuring systems are equipped with unique heat-resistant piezoelectric vibration sensors," he emphasized.
The Tekhpribor plant and design bureau are recognized leaders in the development of Russian airborne systems for fuel control and vibration monitoring of gas-turbine engines. The products of the company are used in all aircraft built in Russia and the CIS. The company shows a wide range of products, developed, certified, manufactured and maintained through the life cycle, at the air show in Zhukovsky.