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Sunday at 9:55 AM
Oct 31, 2016

... and yesterday she finally left
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in
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for her base in
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and now I noticed a Spanish blogger
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had found the pictures of
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in Severomorsk:
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(that blogger is better than even the Russian wiki page :)
 
Jul 29, 2016
... and launching of the Admiral Golovko was put off (I don't include any timing now :) just the link:
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people pile up promises and think I'll forget? LOL
now the third Project 11356 ship, the Admiral Makarov (799)):
Oct 10, 2016

she's back (test-firing actually took place in the Barents Sea), to be commissioned until the end of this year:
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the shipyard (EDIT
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) was asked recently by flotprom.ru about "a new" commissioning date, failed to respond, says
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what's becoming an outrage is Project 22350 though:
Monday at 7:50 PM
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won't be commissioned this year:
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(her "commissioning" date at the English wiki page
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quoting Sputnik LOL is bogus)
it's going to be AT LEAST eleven years between the launch and commissioning, despite Sputnik (and The National Interest
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LOLOL) babbling about a Leader Destroyer, an Aircraft Carrier and stuff

I don't quote Sputnik often ... what a baloney they "proudly present":
Russia to Build Leader-Class Destroyer That Will Outgun Largest US Warships

Read more:
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FORBIN

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Before new modernised only 4 operationals !

Ka-27M


The Kumertau Aircraft Production Enterprise (KumAPP) has handed over the first modernised Ka-72M anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter to the Russian Navy, Russian Helicopters announced on 19 December.

A first batch of eight Ka-27Ms is set to be delivered to the Russian Ministry of Defence by the end of the year, Vladislav Savelyev, deputy chief executive officer for sales of Russian Helicopters, stated.

The helicopters will be deployed to air bases attached to Russia's Black Sea and Northern Fleets, and also to the Yeysk naval aviation training centre.

The Kumertau factory began repairs (in order to extend service life) and upgrades of these eight helicopters to Ka-27M standard at the beginning of 2015. Russia's National Armament Programme provides for the upgrade of 46 helicopters to Ka-27M standard by 2018, the number planned to be kept after 2020. However, only two upgrade contracts have been signed as of yet, for a total of 22 helicopters (eight plus 14).

The Ka-27M (also designated izdeliye 27D2) upgrade programme was launched in the early 2000s. The helicopter's rotor system, powerplant, and airframe are unchanged while the mission system is completely new. The Ka-27M's mission system includes the Phazotron-NIIR Bumerang (Boomerang) radar command-tactical system, integrated around the helicopter's FHA radar; the new Kema radio sonobuoy system with RGB-16MK buoys; upgraded Ros'-VM dipping sonar; new MMS-27 fixed magnetic anomaly detector; electronic support measures suite; data link; a navigator's tactical display; and a SSP-V-27M satellite system for deck landings.

The Ka-27M can be armed with all available Russian weapons in the appropriate class, including APR-3 anti-submarine rocket torpedoes.

The FHA radar alone, without the other elements of the mission system, has been proposed as an upgrade for Russia's Ka-27PS search and rescue helicopters.


December 21, 2016 JSC "Helicopters of Russia" (part of the State Corporation Rostec) reported that the party has completed the shipment of naval transport and combat helicopters Ka-29, which took place at the facilities of repair in Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise.

"Helicopters have passed all necessary tests and will soon be made available to the air base of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. For helicopters Ka-29 were produced works on capital repair of columns rotor motors and gearboxes as well as updated the paint."

Comment bmpd. Apparently, we are talking about the transfer to Russian Naval Aviation of six overhauled helicopters Ka-29, for the repair of a contract which was listed in the work plan of JSC "Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise" (KumAPP) for 2016. The contract value is 435 million rubles. (Thus the price of the repair of the helicopter is 72.5 million rubles).

This transfer will significantly increase the fleet of existing helicopters Ka-29 in naval aviation of the Russian Navy, as at present, in flying condition in the Russian Navy were only four Ka-29 - two cars bearing the number "38 Yellow" (RF-34194 registration number) and "39 yellow" (registration number RF-34188) are operated in 859th Center of deployment and training of flight crews for Russian Navy aviation in Yeisk and helicopters Ka-29, tail number "23 red" and "75 red" in part of aircraft in Northern fleet (the last two are currently at war patrol aboard the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov").

Total from 1977 to 1988 were built three prototypes and 59 series helicopters Ka-29, seven of which after the collapse of the USSR were ceded to Ukraine (two of them are now in flying condition).

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one USNI News Top Stories 2016: International Operations
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Russian Carrier Deploys, Two Fighters Crash

The Russian Navy deployed its sole carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean to assist in Moscow’s ongoing support of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.

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, the core of the Russian Northern Fleet – including carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, guided-missile cruiser Peter the Great and other destroyers and auxiliaries – set out to join Russian forces operating in Syria.

While the deployment may have been more for show than practical military benefit –
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– the operation revealed the limitations of Russia’s carrier enterprise.

On Nov. 13, a landing attempt by a Mikoyan MiG-29K resulted in a pilot ditching in the plane in the Eastern Mediterranean after the aircraft ran out of fuel waiting for the arresting gear to be repaired.

“A preliminary explanation is that they were no longer receiving fuel. ln such situations, a fighter falls like a rock, and the pilot has only one option — to eject,”
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.

Three weeks later
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skidded off the deck of Admiral Kuznetsov after an arresting gear failure, losing another fighter for the airwing.

The deployment has so far shown obvious gaps in the ability for Russia to use its sole carrier to project power and the limitations of Russia’s naval aviation forces.
 
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