Russia Aircraft and Aerospace Programs

[500]

I wouldn't underestimate Russia's abilities and innovations in the aerospace field.
They've always been a step ahead of the west in many areas of aircraft design.
Just look up Tu-144, MiG-25, Yak-36/38/141, Su-27 to name a few of the relatively modern marvels before the west followed suit.

The conceptual design looks awesome and I believe that this will have a hypersonic speed but maybe not 5,500. The MiG-25 could reach Mach 2.8 which was only broken by the US SR-71 (Mach 3+).

In order to achieve 3.3 Mach SR-71needed terrible concessions and astronomic price. 5500 km/h is 4.5 Mach. Totally unrealistic nonsense.

 

[Costin84]

They're struggling to field a 5th gen jet,which isn't really 5th gen but somehow they'll be fielding a 6th generation in a couple of years....the Russian midget, the greatest midget of them all...

 

[500]

The funniest part is that jet moving at such speeds will be completely blind due to surrounding plasma.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

Though Russia may be lagging behind in some areas, when it comes to extreme weapons they can be quite innovative. Sure, they are no longer the Soviet Union, but they are still in direct competition with the West and they will want to jump aboard the 6th generation train as soon as possible.

I'm not going to say that the concepts shown above are viable. However one way or another they will make 6th generation jets. Will it be crude like the SU-57 program, most likely. Only time will tell.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

This stealthy Mig-21 has been around for years now and it's being used a lot in reference to the Mig-41. This article is just a rehash of the many articles in the past about the Mig-41. If I was a mod, I would delete this thread.

Well deleting the article would ruin all the fun wouldn't it? It's good to hear different opinions on topics like this, so far it seems like many are casting doubt on it.

Personally I think some of details are definitely wrong. But I do think that a Russian 6th generation fighter is being worked on.

 

[mulj]

isn't the same engines how the SR-71 was able to move at high speeds? I'm not good with aircraft design though, so pardon me if I am incorrect.

pure amateur myself, it was just first tought when i saw it. hopefully forumers with more knowledge will answer your question.

 

[adenl]

Well deleting the article would ruin all the fun wouldn't it? It's good to hear different opinions on topics like this, so far it seems like many are casting doubt on it.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

 

[Zafer]

Not totally impossible but would be a niche plane. It will have to carry its oxidizer on board which will reduce its payload capacity.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

Did they do this on purpose (to make it sound more intimidating) or is it just a result of its design? Someone please enlighten me.


You can hear it here too at 1:45

 

[Zafer]

Did they do this on purpose (to make it sound more intimidating) or is it just a result of its design? Someone please enlighten me.


You can hear it here too at 1:45

It is not always there, must be some kind of Doppler effect.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

It is not always there, must be some kind of Doppler effect.

Guess it's something similar to the Vulcan Bomber howl. Probably caused by the intakes.

 

[Nilgiri]

Guess it's something similar to the Vulcan Bomber howl. Probably causes by the intakes.

Hawker hunter "blue note most famous (at right conditions):

You mention Vulcan which is also well known.

F-18 also known to make this sound:

It indeed is related to intake resonance dynamics w.r.t velocity combined with doppler effect (relative to where you are recording).

Similar to how you can make a sound blowing into a glass bottle at the right intensity

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

The Hawker Hunter sounds bloody amazing

It indeed is related to intake resonance dynamics w.r.t velocity combined with doppler effect (relative to where you are recording).

Similar to how you can make a sound blowing into a glass bottle at the right intensity

Thanks for explaining, that makes perfect sense!

 

[Nilgiri]

The Hawker Hunter sounds bloody amazing

One of prettiest looking jet aircraft of all time too.

 

[Test7]

Six An-124 airlifters assigned to the Russian Air Force’s 566th Military Transport Aviation Regiment at Seshcha Air Base, Bryansk took off together for a joint training mission on Jan. 15. This is the first time six of these aircraft were airborne and flying together.

 

[Ghost soldier]

Yesterday, the Russian forces carried out a military exercise on the tactic of dealing with drones .. The exercise included the participation of electronic intelligence systems that determined the communication frequencies of the drones with their stations and provided them to electronic warfare stations that were disturbed by the navigation systems and the communication channels between the drones and the control stations .. The exercise included a process. Large smoke camouflage of the troop deployment area ... and the participation of TOR air defense vehicles.

The hostile drones were represented by small Russian drones (Takhion, Zastava and Orlan-10). The electronic warfare stations Pole-21, R-330ZH and Svet-KU participated in the jamming operation .. And the P-19 and 1L125E Niobiy radars participated in the exercise ..

It is noteworthy that the Russians have almost always used smoke camouflage in their recent maneuvers ... and they have carried out several exercises to deal with the threat of drones.

Pictures from yesterday's exercise.

Source:

https://www.facebook.com/177009122409815/posts/3737889352988423

 

[Ghost soldier]

Is it a subliminal message to the successes of drones in armenia libya and syria ?

 

[Bogeyman]

By: Pavel Luzin​

In January, Russia started a new federal ten-year program for developing a GLONASS dual-use satellite navigation system. Its main goal, and challenge, is to replace the old generation of satellites with new ones and increase the system’s reliability and preciseness to make it comparable with the American GPS and the European Galileo systems. The work was supposed to be done by 2020 but was postponed for the next decade due to the lack of technologies and industrial capabilities.

The new program’s budget is 484 billion rubles ($6.55 billion) for 2021–2030 (RBC, December 21, 2020). For comparison, the previous GLONASS programs, for 2002–2011 and 2012–2020, cost $3.2 billion and $5.1 billion, respectively (see EDM, April 27, 2020). As of January 2021, the GLONASS constellation consists of 28 satellites: 25 spacecraft of the previous generation GLONASS-M, two spacecraft of new-generation GLONASS-K and one spacecraft of advanced GLONASS-K2 version (GLONASS-IAC.ru, January 11, 2021). However, 15 GLONASS-M satellites have exceeded their seven-year warranted lifetime already, and two more will exceed the warranted lifetime during 2021. Simultaneously, the first GLONASS-K satellite that was orbited in 2011 and officially spent all those years in the flight trials phase will also exceed its ten-year warranted lifetime by spring 2021.

The GLONASS-K/K2 generation originally relied on the American and European space electronics that amounted to 80 percent of satellites’ contents (Vedomosti, September 27, 2020). Western sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 forced Moscow to search for ways to either substitute previously imported electronics or find alternative supplies. The result was a long-term delay in manufacturing. Although contracts for nine GLONASS-K and two GLONASS-K2 satellites were signed at the end of 2015 (VPK, March 28, 2016), only one of them has been orbited so far—the GLONASS-K that was launched in October 2020. The contract’s total price, 62 billion rubles ($1 billion), meant that each satellite’s planned cost had already exceeded $90 million. For reference, the GLONASS-M satellite cost was about $30 million (TASS, September 1, 2020). Therefore, the substitution means reverse engineering and leads to additional costs in the long-term. The Russian space industry also suffers from excessive bureaucratic regulations (Sibirskiy Sputnik, No.24 (507), December 16, 2020). All these factors prevent the industry from developing on its own.

Reshetnev Company, the manufacturer of GLONASS satellites and a subsidiary of the state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, declared it was able to decrease the use of imported electronics to 45 percent and that the Russian navigation satellites would entirely rely on Russian electronics after 2026 (Sibirskiy Sputnik, No.25 (508), December 29, 2020). However, the plan for launches in 2021 is unclear: at least two GLONASS-K satellites, probably the last GLONASS-M satellite that is kept in storage and possibly one GLONASS-K2 satellite (Sibirskiy Sputnik, No.22 (505), November 11, 2020). Such an approach means the constructor faces significant manufacturing troubles amidst bureaucratic pressure from the Roscosmos leadership. In these circumstances, the hope that the out-of-lifetime navigation satellites would be operable as Russia is completing work leftover from the previous decade became a part of Russia’s space policy.

Facing the challenge of increasing the accuracy and reliability of the navigation system for the long-term, at least on its own and neighboring territories, Russia is developing a new structure of the GLONASS system. The main idea is the deployment of six GLONASS-V (a.k.a. GLONASS-VKK) satellites on high orbits, presumably on high-elliptical Tundra orbit (TASS, October 2, 2020). These satellites are being developed at the same satellite bus Express-1000, like the GLONASS-K generation (GLONASS-IAC, December 13, 2018). All that means Russia is going to implement the regional navigation system into the whole GLONASS.

According to the classic approach used in GPS, GLONASS and Galileo systems, a constellation of at least 24 satellites is deployed on the medium orbits as a global system from the very beginning. In this way, the system needs 18 spacecraft just to cover Russia. The regional satellite navigation systems approach, like Japan’s QZSS and India’s IRNSS, is quite different: by using high orbits, they need fewer spacecraft to cover their regions, though they do not deploy global navigation. Consequently, the GLONASS-V project aims to decrease the number of satellites necessary to cover Russia from 18 to six units. This high-orbit constellation would be able to work separately as a backup system. Supposedly, the Russian space industry would maintain the entire GLONASS system until 2030 with the deployment of eight remaining GLONASS-K satellites and 15 GLONASS-K2 satellites for keeping global cover (TASS, September 1, 2020). In that case, the GLONASS-V spacecraft will increase its accuracy on Russian and neighboring territories.

Simultaneously, the GLONASS-V project faces the same troubles as GLONASS-K: the limited industrial capabilities have postponed the planned deployment of high-orbit spacecraft from 2023–2025 to at least 2026–2027 (Vestnik GLONASS, November 14, 2019). Therefore, Russia is examining a “Plan B”: developing small low-orbit navigation spacecraft, though still without officially adding this option into the GLONASS program for 2030 (Sibirskiy Sputnik, No.22 (505), November 11, 2020). These studies consider the hypothesis that the constellation of tens of navigation spacecraft may fulfill the deficit of medium- and high-orbit GLONASS satellites in case of Russia’s inability to produce enough of them in time. The fact that this emergency case scenario is being discussed means the new GLONASS program may be significantly revised.

GLONASS Program for 2021–2030

In January, Russia started a new federal ten-year program for developing a GLONASS dual-use satellite navigation system. Its main goal, and challenge, is to replace the old generation of satellites with new ones and increase the system’s reliability and preciseness to make it comparable with the...

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