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The domestic aviation industry is undergoing big changes. In a year and a half, Russia will supply the market with the brand-new MC-21 medium-haul airliner — this is the main hope of our civil aviation. Meanwhile, the Russian Air Force has high hopes for the main military breakthrough — the Su-57 fifth-generation jet fighter. When will it go into service? What other kinds of aircraft should we expect?

Yuri Slyusar, the head of the United Aircraft Corporation, spoke about this with our reporter Nailya Askerzade.

The Su-57 jet fighter is in the sky over Zhukovsky. Fast, maneuverable, and completely invisible to foreign radar systems. A 300-meter-long runway is enough for it in order to take off.

Nailya Askerzade, reporter: "Of course, many people dream of at least approaching the top-secret Su-57 fifth-generation jet fighter. We have a unique opportunity to look at it in detail. This "king of dogfighting" is so unique that we aren't allowed to film everything. The state-of-the-art target acquisition system allows target tracking at a considerable distance, the engine features greater thrust and fuel efficiency, and the smart cockpit advises the pilot how to operate.

Taras Artsebarsky, test pilot: "In fact, having flown this plane, when I happen to fly the previous generation jet, I can't help noticing the imperfections, the things that are missing compared to the new one. The new jet features a powerful AI support system for the pilot; it performs a lot automatically and, overall, it allows the pilot to concentrate on the main combat tasks without any distractions".

Taras Artsebarsky is a first-class test pilot. He is the son of cosmonaut Anatoly Artsebarsky, so he's been close to the sky since his childhood. He has already mastered more than 20 types of aircraft, so he has a big sample size for comparison.

- Do you remember your first flight on this fighter?

- Of course, I do. Pilots always remember such things; any sortie on a new type of aircraft is unforgettable and even more so if it is such a fighter jet.

- What nickname did you and your colleagues give this aircraft?

- We nicknamed it affectionately, kindly, by his index name — "Poltinnik" (fifty). And we're still calling it that because we're used to now.

The West got intrigued by these aircraft after two such jets were transported to Syria in February.

- When will the Ministry of Defense take charge of these planes?

Yuri Slyusar, President of the United Aircraft Corporation: By the end of this summer. I think, at Patriot Park, we'll sign a contract with the Defense Ministry regarding the delivery of the first production batch. This is such a significant event for us. In total, we have planned to purchase around 12 jets so, next year, they will be supplied directly to the unit.

The legendary Tu-95MS, a strategic bomber and missile carrier. NATO designation: Bear. Although it was introduced almost 50 years ago, after an intensive modernization program, it still performs its duties perfectly.

Yuri Slyusar: "This will actually be a new aircraft in an old fuselage. There will be a completely new so-called "glass cabin," a new navigation complex, and the key is that the new engine, modernized with new screws, will allow for the carrying of twice as many missiles".

Engine tests are carried out by using such a flying laboratory. Now, the engine for the new MS-21 passenger plane is being tested. The liner itself is gradually mastering the sky.

Yuri Slyusar: "The plane's characteristics have met all expectations: it has reached a height of 12,000 meters (~40,000 feet) and reached a speed of 966 km/hr (~600 mi/hr). The next step involves flight stability and controllability tests".

A new hangar was built in Zhukovsky specifically for the MS-21. The lodging is immaculate. The development of the airliner requires that both production and testing be carried out under ideal conditions.

- Do you think that someday high ranking officials will start using the MS-21?

Yuri Slyusar: Oh, we're counting on it.

miketheterrible wrote:here is an article about what was said apparently:

https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3051169&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

miketheterrible wrote:here is an article about what was said apparently:

https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3051169&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

- When will the Ministry of Defense take charge of these planes?

Yuri Slyusar, President of the United Aircraft Corporation: By the end of this summer. I think, at Patriot Park, we'll sign a contract with the Defense Ministry regarding the delivery of the first production batch. This is such a significant event for us. In total, we have planned to purchase around 12 jets so, next year, they will be supplied directly to the unit.

LMFS wrote:Very complete interview to Yuri Slyusar from UAC, recommendable:

http://www.interfax.ru/interview/626416

Previously, it was said about plans to replace the entire fleet of light fighters with MiG-35 - such plans are still being preserved?

- On this topic, rather, it is necessary to talk with colleagues from the Main Command (VKS) - this is their area of responsibility. We proceed from the parameters that are included in the GPV.

It was stated that the mass production of the Su-57 is not planned, apparently, it will be limited to a small batch. Is it because of its high cost?

- In my opinion, the best answer was given to the contract signed with the Ministry of Defense on the eve of the meeting. But, of course, the Su-57 has fundamentally different capabilities. This requires a smooth transition from fourth-generation aircraft to the fifth.
Now we are at the stage of replacement of previous generation aircraft with Su-35, MiG-35   , Su-30SM, Su-34.
At the next stage they will be replaced more and more by the fifth generation aircraft.
To violate this sequence by mass deliveries of a fifth-generation aircraft at once is probably not entirely correct. In our opinion, the issue here is not so much financial how to ensure that a smooth transition here.

In March, the Russian president announced that the MiG-31 fighters were the first carriers of hypersonic weapons - the Dagger missile, this new modification of the MiG-31K became the real highlight of the program on the parade on May 9....
How many fighters are planned to equip the Daggers?
- We are ready to provide the Ministry of Defense with aircraft in the required quantity.

And when will the work on modernization of the fleet of interceptor fighters be completed in the image of the MiG-31BM?
-Two existing modernization contracts, as planned, will be completed this year. Further there will be next series
We expect that in the coming years the VKS will get a few dozen upgraded MiG-31BMs, (!!!!!!!)  so by 2023 the entire existing park will be modernized.[/b]

Another obvious point:

Now we are at the stage of replacement of previous generation aircraft with Su-35, MiG-35  Laughing , Su-30SM, Su-34.

LMFS wrote:Very complete interview to Yuri Slyusar from UAC, recommendable:

http://www.interfax.ru/interview/626416

- Are there any plans to create a deck version of the Su-57? Or a fundamentally new fighter, a vertical takeoff aircraft for a prospective Russian aircraft carrier?

- We have some experience on the plane of vertical take-off and landing - both from Soviet times and recently. Work on shipborne options continues. It is necessary from the military to get a clear mission, which we will carry out.

- The life cycle of the MiG-31 is nearing completion, in the next 10 years it will be replaced by a new interceptor MiG-41, the same PAK DP. At what stage of implementation is this project?

- We are at the stage of research work. She will answer all questions - what kind of machine is needed, what is the concept of its combat use, what characteristics it should possess, what tasks to solve, what kind of scientific and technical reserve we have to provide answers to these challenges. This is a job for several years.

- Will there be a new glider?

- We are working on a new concept, yes. And when we create this aviation complex, we plan to use new technologies and materials.

- Are there plans to expand the characteristics of speed, range, the possibility of working in space?

- Everything will depend on the tasks. They will say in space to fly - we'll fly into space.

- If we start from an optimistic version, when this machine may appear?

- This should be logically synchronized with the completion of the planned MiG-31 resource. By this time it will be necessary to develop a new machine - that is, we are talking about the turn of the year 2030.

LMFS wrote:@Gunship:

> Freeze of requirements in ca. 5 years
> 5-8 years for first flight with new air vehicle
> Development of new engines 15 years

That puts you well beyond 2035 for serial units to be available, probably more, which is 10 years more than stated by MiG.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

or again "maskirovka"? first Borisov says VSTOL , then they say no VSTOL after year yeah d Putin approved.  2017 Borisov - we work on orbital bomber, thenno Borisov talked shit. then MoD orders a hypersonic drone...

Wait one more year and well se more news coming inthe wrst case they use MiG-35 as MiG-41

Hole wrote:Keep in mind the grown capabilities of Russia. The first stage of the PAK-FA took so long because the country had a lot of other Problems to solve - civil and military.

LMFS wrote:
Or are they "maskirovsking" themselves? I'm starting to have my doubts 

For projects beyond 10 years and without established requirements it is good to be sceptic, priorities can change many times.

AMCXXL wrote:

LMFS wrote:Very complete interview to Yuri Slyusar from UAC, recommendable:

http://www.interfax.ru/interview/626416

Nothing new, this is just an executive and his task is to sell, like a second hand car salesman in a dealership
The words of this type guys have a value of exactly zero  
10-12 years ago said: we expect +200 MiG-35 , later, 170 , in 2015 , 37 for a regiment, and so pn
He only expresses expresses his wettest wishes no tangible information. If he get contracts, gains its sales commission

Also the article have several interpretation mistakes
The relevant answer is, of course:

Previously, it was said about plans to replace the entire fleet of light fighters with MiG-35 - such plans are still being preserved?

- On this topic, rather, it is necessary to talk with colleagues from the Main Command (VKS) - this is their area of responsibility. We proceed from the parameters that are included in the GPV.

This means what everyone knows less the journalist who asks: the MiG-29 has been already replaced from combat units of VVS.
And it also means that the executive does not know anything and if he knows it he is silent so as not to be fired for incompetent.

LMFS wrote:Regarding the MiG-31, they are already correcting the development cycle stated previously. Remember they were talking about availability for 2025 and at the same time, all those undefined, sci-fi-like capabilities. If you look at the development of any plane (last one is PAK-FA), it took from ca. 2002 to 2010 to make first flight, and then to 2019 (if nothing changes) to order first serial units. So that makes 17 years development cycle, and 20-21 considering the engine. Those are the realistic numbers, the rest are just fantasies from a better world. Now imagine the development times for the MiG-41, once MoD doesn't even know what requirements and technologies are desired... And besides, the MiG-31s are getting updated now and can be further overhauled in the future for a fraction of the cost of developing new planes. US needs to make the jump to hypersonic, before Russia perceives new threat levels, and that will take time.

So realistic best case scenario IMHO and in base of what we know (which is little):

> Freeze of requirements in ca. 5 years
> 5-8 years for first flight with new air vehicle
> Development of new engines 15 years

That puts you well beyond 2035 for serial units to be available, probably more, which is 10 years more than stated by MiG.

Hole wrote:Keep in mind the grown capabilities of Russia. The first stage of the PAK-FA took so long because the country had a lot of other Problems to solve - civil and military.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:modular avionics/radars - exist
weaponry - exist
engines -exist

so 7-10 years max going to series where is problem here?

eehnie wrote:

The works on the MiG-41 are ongoing since  approximately 2010. This is the part that you are not including.

The work fixing the requirements of the aircraft can be almost finished, or totally completed. Without this a preliminary design can not be presented, like they announced.

The statements of MiG neither are to be judged too lightly.

LMFS wrote:

Engines do exist? Which ones?? For what requirement? Space flight? Mach 4?

Regarding judging lightly MiG statements, this is exactly what I find disturbing: that guys in a high responsibility don't have the professionalism to shut up instead of talking BS. If MiG has a brand new interceptor called MiG-41 and not derived from MiG-31 ready for series in 2025 I promise to eat my words

GunshipDemocracy wrote:
yu want to make things easier ot harder?  you build fighter around components you already have if you want to minimize time/costs.  AL-41F / updated NK-32. AESA tech i already there. For all this integration work you get 7-10 years. We talk about VSTOL or MiG-41?

and Im sure he would tell you truth and now what he wanted to tell. Space technically can be 30km + so MiG-25 dynamically get to 37kms

Russian dnt behave like Westerners it doesn't mean they are no professional. It is way they communicate and IMHO it works forcing "analysts"  to guess and making idiots of all National interests && co.

It wont be ready before 2025 nobody said this?! who said this besides you? Will be between 2027 -2030 is more probable.  So ~10 years.

While the plane is still under development, it might go to into production by the mid-2020s, Tarasenko believes.

“We’re shaping our technical offer, so that the customer would make a decision on the need to develop the plane. … According to our internal estimates, we should make it to the serial development in 2025,” Tarasenko told RT.

https://www.rt.com/news/400687-russian-mig-interceptor-space/

Meanwhile, MiG CEO Tarasenko said that the R&D and experimental design work on the cutting-edge Russian interceptor was planned to begin "in the immediate future" and its deliveries to the Russian Armed Forces were expected to start in the mid-2020s.



More:
http://tass.com/defense/1017603

LMFS wrote:

eehnie wrote:The works on the MiG-41 are ongoing since  approximately 2010. This is the part that you are not including.

The work fixing the requirements of the aircraft can be almost finished, or totally completed. Without this a preliminary design can not be presented, like they announced.

The statements of MiG neither are to be judged too lightly.

Work on the 5G aircraft was ongoing since middle 80's in Soviet Union and after that in Russia. Requirements and a concrete program with funding and clear targets in terms of schedule and goals only in 2002, with a preliminary platform only in 2004 IIRC. MFI and other attempts did not succeed.

They cannot present a preliminary design if they don't know whether they want space flight or not, for instance, and Slyusar still has not received a clear answer, if one is to judge by his statements in the interview.

Regarding judging lightly MiG statements, this is exactly what I find disturbing: that guys in a high responsibility don't have the professionalism to shut up instead of talking BS. If MiG has a brand new interceptor called MiG-41 and not derived from MiG-31 ready for series in 2025 I promise to eat my words

LMFS wrote:
We were talking about MiG-41 here, unless I finally got lost   
No engine up for the task of Mach 4, not to talk of space flight and lasers.

It wont be ready before 2025 nobody said this?! who said this besides you? Will be between 2027 -2030 is more probable.  So ~10 years.

I find the Sukhoi guys are not doing these kind of things and they are every bit as Russian as the guys from MiG. The PAK-FA program for instance, which is a massively ambitious one, has shifted to the right some years but nothing beyond reasonable expectations. This is not comparable to being off by more than a decade... even before the program has started. This makes you look simply like an idiot

eehnie wrote:

This aregument is not serious. If you want to go this way, the work on the replacement of the MiG-25/31 started in the 70s.

Just better to read what the head of MiG said. And to pay attention.

“[The development] is at the stage of finalizing the image of the plane. It will be a gradual transition from MiG-31 to PAK DA,”

The plane, however, will not be just a modernization of MiG-31, it will be an entirely new machine, having “the ability to operate in space, new weapons, new speeds, new operational range,” Tarasenko told Zvezda TV channel on Tuesday.

“It will be an entirely new plane, where entirely new technologies to operate in the Arctic zone will be utilized. This plane will safeguard the whole border of our homeland. Later, the project will become unmanned,” TASS quoted Tarasenko as saying.  

“We’re shaping our technical offer, so that the customer would make a decision on the need to develop the plane. … According to our internal estimates, we should make it to the serial development in 2025,” Tarasenko told RT.

- The life cycle of the MiG-31 was nearing completion in the next 10 years he will be replaced by the new fighter-interceptor MiG-41, it is the same PACK of DP. At what stage of implementation is the project?

We are at the stage of research. She will answer all the questions – what the car needs, what is the concept of engagement, what characteristics it must have, what problems to solve which we have scientific and technical potential, allowing these challenges to provide answers. This is a job for a few years.

- There will be a new glider?
- We are working on a new concept, Yes. And the creation of this aviation system plan to use new technologies and materials.
- Have plans to increase performance in speed, range, ability to work in space?
Everything will be from the tasks to depend on. I will say in space to fly and fly into space.

- Assuming optimistic scenario, when you may receive this machine?
- It has to be logically synchronized with the completion of the scheduled resource of the MiG-31. By this time you will need a new car to develop – we are talking about the turn of 2030.