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New Fazotron Zhuk-ME radars enter production, Ready for India
The Fazotron-NIIR corporation has launched the serial production of Zhuk-ME onboard radar systems designed to be installed on the export version of Russias MiG-29 fighter jet.The enterprise is expected to deliver approximately ten Zhuk-ME onboard radar systems in 2010, Anatoly Kanashchenkov, Fazotron-NIIR first deputy general director and general designer, told Interfax-AVN.
Before the end of the year, the corporation will also have to manufacture spare parts sufficient to make another ten Zhuk-ME radars, Kanashchenkov said.Newly made MiG-29K/KUB and MiG-29SMT fighter jets will be fitted with such radars, he said.Fazotron-NIIR has also been participating in the modernization of 64 MiG-29 fighter jets owned by the Indian Air Force, he said.
Flight tests of Indias modernized MiG-29 planes are expected to begin in Russia at the end of 2010 or at the start of 2011, Kanashchenkov said.In 2010, the corporation will also continue efforts to fine-tune Zhuk-ME radars installed on MiG-29SMT airplanes under a contract with Algeria, he said.The aforementioned MiG-29SMT planes have been returned to Russia by Algeria and will be sent to the Russian Air Forces units after all the necessary adjustments are made, he added.
ASIAN DEFENCE: New Fazotron Zhuk-ME radars enter production
The Fazotron-NIIR corporation has launched the serial production of Zhuk-ME onboard radar systems designed to be installed on the export version of Russias MiG-29 fighter jet.The enterprise is expected to deliver approximately ten Zhuk-ME onboard radar systems in 2010, Anatoly Kanashchenkov, Fazotron-NIIR first deputy general director and general designer, told Interfax-AVN.
Before the end of the year, the corporation will also have to manufacture spare parts sufficient to make another ten Zhuk-ME radars, Kanashchenkov said.Newly made MiG-29K/KUB and MiG-29SMT fighter jets will be fitted with such radars, he said.Fazotron-NIIR has also been participating in the modernization of 64 MiG-29 fighter jets owned by the Indian Air Force, he said.
Flight tests of Indias modernized MiG-29 planes are expected to begin in Russia at the end of 2010 or at the start of 2011, Kanashchenkov said.In 2010, the corporation will also continue efforts to fine-tune Zhuk-ME radars installed on MiG-29SMT airplanes under a contract with Algeria, he said.The aforementioned MiG-29SMT planes have been returned to Russia by Algeria and will be sent to the Russian Air Forces units after all the necessary adjustments are made, he added.
ASIAN DEFENCE: New Fazotron Zhuk-ME radars enter production
