MOSCOW, June 2 (AVN) - Russia's major arms dealer Rosvoourzhenie and the Russian Air and Space Agency will represent the country at the coming ILA-2000 international aviation and space show in Berlin June 6-12, the Military News Agency learned.
According to Rosvoorouzhenie's press-centre the central place in the exposition will be given to the MI-29 Fulcrum latest modification MIG-29SMT.
Unlike its predecessor MIG-29SMT is a multipurpose aircraft capable of accomplishing interceptor, fighter, reconnaissance plane, and airborne command point tasks. The plane can carry and use all of the weapons currently employed in Russia. MIG-29SMT can also be modernised for using foreign weaponry. The range of fighter is similar to that of heavy interdictors.
Experts say, that the effectiveness of the modernised fighter has grown by eight times while its maintenance expenses have been reduced by 35-40 percent. NATO-standards modernisation variants of the Fulcrum will be presented by the German-Russian MiG Aircraft Support GmbH. The present market for MIG-29 modernisation in Central and Eastern Europe is over 100 planes.
The Sukhoi design bureau will present its SU-30MK and SU-33 planes of the Flanker family, and a SU-32 fighter, as well as modernisation programmes for SU-24MK Fencer bombers and SU-22M4 fighter-bombers, that were previously supplied to many countries.
The Nizhny Novgorod Sokol aviation factory will bring its MI-31 Foxhound interdictor and MIG-21-93 Fishbed fighter.
The Moscow Chernyshev machine building enterprise and the Ufa engine plant will present several types of engines for SU and MIG planes.
Electronic optic finders, laser rangers, and other optic and electronic devices that are mounted on these aircraft will be exhibited by the Ural optics and mechanics factory.
The St. Petersburg Tranzas company is expected to bring its simulators for helicopter pilots, that allows to considerably shorten the training period.
The Moscow Myasischev experimental machine building plant will exhibit a unique M55RTR radar surveillance aviation system based on the M-55 Mystic plane. A Kompat side radar intended for photographing of Earth and sea surfaces will be presented by its designer the Moscow Precision Instruments R&D Institute.
The space component of the Russian exposition will show the latest developments of the Moscow region's Reutov machine-building production enterprise and the Moscow Kometa central R&D institute - the country's leaders in the field.