MILITARY AVIATION
• Irkut delivers first 15 Yak-130s to RusAF • First two Su-30SMs delivered to RusAF • More Su-34 and Su-35S aircraft for RusAF Su-30MKM in service with RMAF To see first means to win Interview of Tikhomirov-NIIP Director General Yuri Bely T-50 Four aircraft in flight trials CONTRACTS AND DELIVERIES • First three upgraded MiG-29UPGs delivered to India • IAF ordering 42 Su-30MKI fighters more • Russian and India launching MTA co-development • As many as 25 Indian An-32s upgraded in Kiev • India to receive 71 Mi-17 helicopters more • Brazil becoming launch customer for Ka-62 COMMERCIAL AVIATION • Angara launches An-148 commercial services • New aircraft for presidential air detachment Sukhoi Superjet 100 arrives to new customers INDUSTRY • Ilyushin 476 undergoing tests • Upgraded An-70 in trials • First Russian Emergencies Ministry An-148 in trial • First SSJ100/95LR kicking off its trials • Endurance tests under MC-21 programme go on • PD-14: prototype engine manufacture begins • Last Tu-154M built? • Be-200: first local production aircraft under assembly in Taganrog • 34 Ka-226T to be ready for delivery this year |