An-70 Tactical Military Transports Aircraft

The An-70 belongs to a new category of short takeoff and landing tactical military transports. The Antonov-70 is a new propfan powered medium-size wide-body short take-off and landing transport aircraft designed a replacement for the An-12 'Cub'.

The An-70 is capable of carrying practically any item from military armament and equipment nomenclature with a total weight of up to 47 t. The aircraft is capable of delivering 20-35 t of cargo over the range of 5,000-6,600 km at cruising speed of 750 km/h, air dropping of personnel and vehicles as well single cargoes of up to 20 from each high and low altitudes, delivery of 300 troopers and evacuation of 206 wounded and sick.

The Antonov An-70 is powered by four Ivchenko Progress D-27 three-shaft propfan engines. every engine will produce 10,350kW of output power. FADEC compatible, the D-27 engine is fitted with two remote gearboxes, a single stage compressor, a four stage low pressure turbine and a jetpipe.

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An-32 Cline Tactical Transport Aircraft

The An-32 is a twin engine, tactical transport aircraft designed and manufactured by Antonov design Bureau of Ukraine for the Indian Air Force (IAF). Its Nato reporting name is Cline. it's derived from the An-26 transport aircraft. total 240 An-32s are currently operational worldwide.

The aircraft can operate in several weather conditions, including hot climate of Africa (to +55?), in mountain climate of India and Latin America (up to 4500 m high). These airplanes can take off from paved and unpaved aerodromes and from restricted runways. the entire An-32 family has a set of anti corrosion measures to shield the power units of the airframe, which allows secure operations in damp maritime climate.

An-32 features advanced cargo handling devices and a cargo door fitted with a ramp to ease the loading or unloading of freight. it's additionally incorporated with higher cargo handling device to load and unload 3,000kg of payload.

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Ka-50 Black Shark Light Attack Helicopter

The Ka-50 black shark (NATO codename Hokum A) and with Hokum B the two-seat version, Ka-52. was planned as a rival to the Mi-28 Havoc in a competition to supply the Soviet armed forces with a new battlefield attack helicopter. Kamov opted for a single-crew layout to save lots of weight for a lot of amour, and more powerful armament, and a larger variety of advanced sensors.

The core of the Ka-50's weapon system is the tube-launched Vikhr anti-tank missile, of which 16 are carried. the Ka-50's cannon has variable rates of fire and selective feed from two ammunition boxes. Survivability is enhanced by features including infra-red suppression of the new exhaust gases, layered cockpit amour and chaff/flare dispensers in wing tip pods. The pilot can escape the aircraft via a K-37 ejection seat, when the rotor blades have been explosively separated.

Later revision of the requirement to emphasize night combat capability led to a reassessment of the Ka-50 Hocum, whose production was postponed, in the light of the two-seat Mi-28's apparently larger developability for the task.

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Su-30MK Multirole Fighter Aircraft

Su-30M (MK-export version) is a customary Su-30 with the air-to-ground missiles which may carry twice the armament (8 tons) compared to the baseline Su-27. The Su-30 'export variant' of the formidable Su-27 'Flanker', can carry the newest Russian air-to-air missiles, as well the medium-range R-27 family, the short-range R-73 and also the new medium-range R-77 'AMRAAM-ski'. The Sukhoi-30K has a range in excess of 3,000km, which means it can simply patrol offshore installations without requiring aerial refuelling.

The aircraft is supplied with similar avionics and thrust vectoring as the Su-37, for superior combat agility and manoeuvrability. The aircraft is armed with precision anti-surface missiles and has a stand-off launch range of 120km.

The Su-30MK is powered by two Saturn AL-37FP thrust vectoring engines, as put in on the Su-37 aircraft. The aircraft's flight control system computes and manages the adjustment of the thrust and also the vectoring for every engine. The nozzles are directed through ±15° in pitch. In an emergency, like a system failure, the nozzles are returned hydraulically to a level flight position.

The aircraft normally carries 5,090kg of fuel in three integral fuel tanks in the fuselage and one integral split tank with each half put in in the outer wings. the most fuel capability of the aircraft is 9,400kg. The aircraft is provided with a flight refuelling probe and a buddy-buddy refuelling system.

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MiG-31 Foxhound Long-range Interceptor Aircraft

The MiG-31 Foxhound long-range supersonic interceptor aircraft, is a two-seat aircraft developed principally for the Russian and Kazakhstan Air Forces, was derived from MiG-25 Foxbat. The maiden flight of the MiG-31 happened in September 1975. Mikoyan is the designer and manufacturer of the MiG-31.

The most capable Russian air defense interceptor aircraft, the FOXHOUND contains with multiple-target engagement capability and was the first Soviet fighter to possess a real look-down, shoot-down capability. The N007 Zaslon radar was the first electronically scanned phased array radar to enter service in the world. It might scan 200 km forward and track 10 targets simultanieously.

MiG-31 supersonic aircraft provided with two Solovyev D-30F6 turbofan shaft engines with a take-off thrust 15,500kgf each. The dry thrust of the D-30F6 is 9,500kgf for every engine. The engine provides a most speed of Mach 1.23 at low altitude and increases the aircraft's range. The fuel consumption of the MiG-31 is incredibly high compared to different aircraft, principally because of its multiple roles.

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MiG-33 Fulcrum Fighter Bomber Aircraft

The MiG-33 Fulcrum fighter bomber aircraft is a modernisation of the MiG-29, with upgrades in many areas. One goals of the modernisation was adding multifunctionality with more growth of air-to-air and air-to-ground capabilities with high-precision weapons. It featured considerable growth of combat range owing to a rise in the internal fuel capability, along with better pilot-to-aircraft interface within the cockpit and introduction of different new-generation equipment.

The MiG-33 features more powerful, upgraded engines and also the quadraple-redundant fly-by-wire flight control system. a new onboard radar with a reprogrammable signal processor provides not only a larger aerial target detection range, is also capable of detection of sea and small-sized ground targets, ground mapping, terrain following and alerting to avoid ground obstacles.

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MiG-35 Fulcrum-F Air Superiority Fighter

The MiG-35 NATO reporting name Fulcrum-F is a highly manoeuvrable air superiority fighter, that was shown for the first time in August 2005 throughout the MAKS Air Show outside Moscow. The fighter is powered by RD-33 OVT thrust vectoring control engines. The RD-33 OVT engines offer superior manoeuvrability and enhance the fighter's performance in close air-to-air engagements.

The MiG-35 presents super-manoeuvrability, a capability to fly at supercritical angles of attack at increased level of sustained and available g-loads and high turn-angle rate, which needs a greater thrust-to-weight ratio and improved wing aerodynamic potency.

MiG-35 are going to be the first Russian aircraft to be fitted with active electronically scanned array radar. The Zhuk-MA's antenna consists of 160 modules, each with four receive-and-transmit modules. it's believed to supply a 160km (85nm) air target detection radius and 300km for surface ships.

The MiG-35 is powered by two RD-33MKBs which will be fitted with KliVT swivel-nozzles and a thrust vectoring control (TVC) system. The MiG-35's combination of TVC and advanced missile-warning sensors offers it the edge during combat.

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