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TUSHINO SHOW REPORT
as spending cuts loom
Outstanding in the Tushino flypast
was Tupolev's Tu-160 Blackjack
supersonic strategic bomber (main
picture), but the big news was
Beriev's experimen...
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 ...i Su-27K
Flanker B2, with movable fore-
planes, folding wings, shortened
tailcone, strengthened gear and
a tailhook, heralds the Naval
Air Force's entry into conven
tional carrier operations The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack showed off its landing configuralion
with wings at 20° sweep and also in a high-speed pass at maximum
(65°) sweep. In service, Blackjack has a poor readiness rate,
in the o...
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 ...HEADLINES
Soviets display
Beriev amphibian
BY ALAN POSTLETHWAITE
IN MOSCOW
The Soviet Union unveiled its new Beriev A-40 twin-
turbofan anti-submarine-warfare
amphibian at this year's "Avia
tio...
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 ... last
month's Aviation Day flypast at
Tushino and the associated static
exhibition at nearby Frunze.
The unveiling of the Beriev
A-40 twin-turbofan amphibian
and first public appearance of the
Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber
in the Tushino flypast were the
undoubted highlights, but the
diversity of types displayed at
Frunze proved a goldmine for
Western analysts.
Powered by a pair of ...
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 ...MILITARY AIRCRAFT DIRECTORY
Manufacturer
Aircraft
Mission
Comments
Powerpiant Max power
(kW)
Max thrust
dry (lb)
Max thrust
reheat lib)
Wing span (m)
Wing area (ml
Overall length (ml
OEW...
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 ...decide later this year how the
cuts will be accomplished, but so
far there is no indication whether
design bureaux will escape
unscathed, says Batkov. The
worst case, and a "major con
cern" in B...
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 ...ay"
flypast at Tushino in Moscow on
August 20, attended by some
200,000 people, and featuring
Soviet aircraft never before
displayed publicly, including the
Beriev A-40 Albatross amphibian
and Tupolev Tu-160 bomber.
Many more types, mainly
military, were on static display
for the first time at the nearby
disused airfield at Frunze.
They are proposing that
"elderly" aircraft be withdra...
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 ...irst appearance
outside the USSR, the F-117 its first
appearance outside the USA — and the
Middle East. The show organiser, French
aerospace industry association GIFAS, had
hoped that the Soviet Tupolev Tu-160
Backjack and US Northrop B-2 would
attend, but the Superpowers decided that
IN THIS SPECIAL
What will be there
When to go
Who will be there
Getting there
Paris: The Soviet view ...
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 ...
Russia
Ukraine
total
Tupolev Tu-22M/MR Backfire total
Tupolev Tu-95/142 Bear
Non-NATO Europe
Tu-142/MR
TU-95MS
Non-NATO Europe
Southern Asia
TU-142M
Southern Asia
Tupolev Tu-95/142 Bear
Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack
Non-NATO Europe
Tu-160
Non-NATO Europe
Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack
A-7 Cosair
Russia
Russia
total
India
total
total
Russia
total
total
Australasia, North & East As...
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 ...on the Indian air force's MiG-21s, although
some avionics systems are being sourced from
Western countries.
The upgrade market for Russian and
Western combat aircraft remains a viable, if
limited...
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 ...led, Graham Warwick
looks back and assesses what the West has actually learned
about Soviet combat aircraft design. F
ew significant Soviet combat aircraft
remain to be displayed in the West.
The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack
strategic bomber, Mikoyan MiG-31
Foxhound interceptor, and Beriev A-40
Albatross anti-submarine amphibian are
among a handful of designs yet to venture
beyond the gradual...
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 ...30Turbo-Orlik
RFB Fantrainer 400/600
Rockwell B-1B Lancer
Saab AJS37 Viggen
Saab AJS/AJSH37/AJSF37 Viggen
Saab J350E Draken
Saab JA37 Viggen
Saab SK37/SK37E Viggen
Shenyang J-8/J-8II Finback
Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack
Xian JH-7
'requirement/on order -(requirement
Country
Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan
USA
Canada
Hondurus
France
USA
Japan
Japan
Australia
Romania
Japan
Argentina
Italy...
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 ...lik
RFB Fantrainer 400/600
Rockwell B-1B Lancer
Saab AJS37 Viggen
Saab AJSH37/AJSF37 Viggen
Saab J350E Draken
Saab JA37 Viggen
Saab SK37/SK37E Viggen
Shenyang J-8/J-8II Finback
'requirement
Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack
Country Air Arm
mmmaisf&
Su-25
Central Asia
Uzbekistan
Su-25/UB Peru
Latin America & the Caribbean
Su-25
Su-25/UB
Su-25A/UB
Su-25/K/UB
Su-25K/UB
Su-25/M/UB/Su-39 ...
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 ...novation and that the results of research
take too long to be introduced—and when
they are they result in poor quality and
unreliable weapons.
The DoD concurs, saying that develop-
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Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack: hey defence technol
ogies lag the West
ment times have risen sharply, showing up
underlying weaknesses in design and
manufacturing equipment.
In the DoD's view, the Sovi...
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KLM & Swissair buy TCAS . . .
United bidders gather . . .
TUSHINO SHOW REPORT
Exclusive news and photographs from
the Soviet Union's first major airshow,
including:
Kamov Ka-126 ... 6
Tupolev Tu-160 ... 7
Yakovlev Yak-38 ... 8
Myashichev VM-T ... 9
NEWS: OPERATIONS
FAA's Combi safety directive.
Namib Air plans US flights . . .
South African 747 inquiry .. .
Pilot error in Ol...
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 ...eatens to
escalate the strategic arms
race, according to defence
experts.
The detection of Soviet
bombers by Nato radar is
being made increasingly diffi
cult by stealth technology and
the new Tupolev Tu-160
Baffler.
US intelligence satellites
reveal a number of Bafflers on
test at Ramenskoye, accord
ing to leaks from Pentagon
sources anxious to get defence
budget increases through
...
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 ...es, as it makes its debut.
AviaExport has tantalisingly dangled the
JVIikoyan MiG-31M Foxhound air-defence
fighter as a possible debutante, although diis
has, for the moment, been withdrawn. The
Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber is
still provisionally expected. If it does make an
appearance, it will,be for the first time in the
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 10 • 16 August 199...
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 ...dome
BLACKJACK BIGGER THAN B-l
Above Blackjack's retractable flight refuelling probe doors are visible
just aft of the radome; asymmetrically arranged dorsal bumps aft
are also visible. Right The Tupolev Tu-160 has a visual
bomb aimer's posi
tion under the nose,
but the main arma
ment is air-launched
cruise missiles such
as the AS-15 Kent
and a short-range
attack missile pos
sibly car...
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 ...sion and the
79th Guards Heavy Bomber Division.
Both divisions have five regiments of
nuclear- and conventionally armed
Tupolev Tu-95MS6/MS16 Bear strategic
bombers, a regiment of nuclear-armed
Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bom
bers, and four regiments of conventionally
armed Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire medium-
range bombers. Both divisions are sup
ported by Ilyushin 11-76 Midas in-flig...
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 ... 212 tailro
tor shaft, the critical resonance
occurred at 131 % power.
OPERATIONS VLADIMIR KARNOZOV / MOSCOW
Tu-160 returns to skies after probe
The Russian air force has resumed
flights of its Tupolev Tu-160 swing-
wing supersonic strategic bombers
following completion of the inves
tigation into a crash near the vil
lage of Sovyetskaya, 40km (25
miles) off Engels air force base in
cent...
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