the Navy plans to renew the fleet of attack helicopters: to replace standing now in service helicopters Ka-29 should come with the latest military reconnaissance and strike deck helicopters Ka-52K “Katran”.
this was reported today by the RIA Novosti news Agency the commander of naval aviation major General Igor Kozhin. In General naval aviation is embarking on the renewal of the aircraft fleet while also developing drones. In the next three to four years aviation Navy will receive about 100 new aircraft.
see also
“In accordance with the existing program of modernization and renewal of the aircraft fleet of naval aviation Navy, in service naval aviation till 2020 will receive about 100 new aircraft,” – said Igor Kozhin.
He noted that in the near future, available aircraft will be replaced by the promising aviation systems. In particular, the composition of the units of the naval fighter aircraft in 2017-2020 will be updated MiG-29K and MiG-29KUB. As previously reported, last year the aircraft of the Russian Navy received more than 10 aircraft and 20 different classes of upgraded helicopters of naval aviation Ka-27
in addition, created and now unmanned aerial vehicles designed specifically for the Navy. “One of the promising directions for the work of the specialists of the leading design offices are research and development in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, naval bases,” the General said Kozhin Agency TASS. However, he does not clarify the terms.
In turn, the commander of the Northern fleet Vice-Admiral Nikolai Evmenov told TASS that this year the ships of the Northern fleet in 2017 will make trips to the Arctic and the Mediterranean. “The crews of a number of compounds of surface ships began focused preparations for long voyages in the seas of the Arctic ocean, in different areas of the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean basin,” he said. In the 2016 academic year, crews of surface ships, nuclear submarines and support ships has performed more than 30 long hikes. Currently, the ship aircraft carrier group of the Northern fleet, which includes the only Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser “Pyotr Veliky”, a large anti-submarine ship “Severomorsk” and a few support vessels, performing tasks in the Eastern Mediterranean sea.
According to official data of the Ministry of defence, New year away from their native shores met more than 5 thousand sailors.
No comments:
Post a Comment