Russian Naval Aviation: News

George1 wrote:

medo wrote:

Viktor wrote:Concrat for new Su-30SM and YAK-130 for the Russian Navy was signed at the end of 2013.

MO at the end of 2013, signed a contract for the supply of aircraft for the Navy

The question whether it was true that in December 2013 a contract was signed for the supply of Russian naval aviation first batches of Su-30cm and trainer aircraft Yak-130 Borisov said: "The truth."

Who dares to speculate about numbers?  

Excellent news. Russian navy will need at least 80 Su-30SM, 6 for training and 1 squadron (12 planes) for every European fleet, 2 squadrons for Pacific fleet (1 for Vladivostok, 1 for Kamchatka). I hope air force will also buy additional Su-30SM to those 60 they have already ordered.

these aircrafts will be part of naval aviation ?

According bmpd, was contracted five Su-30cm and five Yak-130, and further possible purchase for Marine aviation several dozen Su-30cm and a certain amount of the Yak-130

Viktor wrote:Interesting article on bmpd wich is in line with medo thoughts

Purchase of Su-30cm and Yak-130 aircraft for the Russian Navy Marine and problems with the Su-35S

According to bmpd blog Russian MoD contracted 5 Su-30SM and 5 YAK-130 for Russian Navy by the end of 2013. But this is the sentence that caught my eye.

According bmpd, was contracted five Su-30cm and five Yak-130, and further possible purchase for Marine aviation several dozen Su-30cm and a certain amount of the Yak-130

and this is the part in line what medo was saying. Several dozen indicate at least 60 Su-30SM and possibly even more Su-30SM on order for RuAN and nice amount of YAK-130. All in all we

might be seeing another 100+ fighter on order.   

TR1 wrote:Well I am not sure about 60, the translation is "several tens of planes", could be ~30, which was the number floated earlier. They are buying MiG-29Ks so the budget needs to be balanced between the two.
How many Su-24s does Naval Aviation even operate? It is a couple dozen IIRC.

TR1 wrote:Well I am not sure about 60, the translation is "several tens of planes", could be ~30, which was the number floated earlier. They are buying MiG-29Ks so the budget needs to be balanced between the two.
How many Su-24s does Naval Aviation even operate? It is a couple dozen IIRC.

flamming_python wrote:Can probably skip the air coverage of the Caspain, Russia is already armed to the teeth there as it is.

GarryB wrote:The optimist that I am thinks the delay of a year might be to install new catapult systems for training to use new carriers and the upgraded K...

Or it could be that all the radar and communication equipment needs to be upgraded... but I would think they should have already anticipated this and put new radar and sensor equipment in in the first place.

It really only makes sense to me if they have just decided to go for a cat in the K upgrade which makes it worth while to delay the opening of the new facility while they add it there.

The added advantage is that it will be installed in a year, but will allow practise and training with the system for quite some time before the upgraded K is back in service so hopefully they will iron out all the kinks is problems with the system.