MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Rosoboronexport will display almost the entire range of exported Russian airspace and air defense systems at the Farnborough 2006 air show to be opened in the UK on Monday.
" Guests and exhibitors at the show can admire breathtaking aerobatics performed by a unique super-manoeuvrable MiG-29M multi-role fighter with thrust vector control (MiG-29OVT) in the skies over the London suburb," a Rosoboronexport press-service official told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Visitors will be able to familiarize themselves with unique tactical and technical characteristics of the Su-30MK super-manoeuvrable multi-role fighter, the Su-27SK, the new Su-32 fighter-bomber, and other Su-family aircraft.
MiG type aircraft are represented at Farnborough by the unique MiG-29M lightweight tactical fighter with thrust vector control, MiG-29SMT advanced upgrade, MiG-29K shipborne combat aircraft, MiG-29SE front-line fighter, MiG-31 interceptor, MiG-29UB and shipborne MiG-29KUB combat trainers, as well as MiG-AT dedicated trainer.
Foreign specialists will be undoubtedly interested in the Yak-130 two-seat combat trainer allowing pilots to acquire and master flight handling skills for modern fighters of Su-30/MiG-29 type, as well as their foreign counterparts, such as Mirage 2000, F-16, F-15, Eurofighter, F-22, F-35.
Rosoboronexport and helicopter-building enterprises present the entire range of indigenously-built rotary-wing craft, including the new Mi-28NE 'Night Hunter' all-weather attack helicopter, the Mi-35, the Mi-35P, and the Mi-35M daytime and day/night combat transport helicopters, the Mi-171Sh and the Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters, the Mi-26T heavy-lift transport helicopter, the Ka-50 twin-seat modification optimal for efficient reconnaissance-and-strike missions, the Ka-31 radar picket helicopter, and other helicopters.
Being the world's leading space technology power, Russia also presents its latest achievements in the areas of information technology, communications, and space exploration. Rosoboronexport's transactions connected with space technologies and associated services are steadily gaining importance as regards its cooperation with foreign partners. Contracts on putting into the near-Earth orbit of space vehicles for the United Kingdom, Algeria, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Turkey, Germany, Sweden, and some other countries, have been successfully completed. Rosoboronexport's specialists can provide detailed reference data on the entire fleet of Russian space vehicles of light, medium and heavy-lift classes.
By tradition the exposition presents a wide range of Russian-made air defence systems, such as the long-range S-300PMU2, medium-range Buk-M1-2, short-range Tor-M1 and Osa-AKM air defence missile systems, Tunguska-M1 air defence gun-missile system, as well as radars - Nebo-SVU, Protivnik-GE, Kasta-2E2.
Russia, a traditional participant in Farnborough International air shows, presents aerospace products and services offered for export by more than 60 enterprises and organizations.