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Electronic Warfare Systems Top Innovation List At Moscow Air Show

Aug 28, 2015

Bill Sweetman | Aviation Week & Space Technology

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  MiG’s 1.44 advanced fighter prototype made its public debut 15 years late, having started a very short and long-delayed flight-test program in February 2000. With around 40,000 lb. thrust from each of its Saturn AL-41F engines, it is one of the most powerful fighters ever built and was designed to combine supersonic cruise with high agility despite weighing close to 100,000 lb. with full external stores. “Belyakov [Rostislav Belyakov, then-MiG bureau chief} did not say no to any of the air force’s requirements,” a former MiG engineer recalls. “But even in the 1980s, it was apparent that the age of unlimited budgets was coming to an end.” The air force, for instance, called for the ability to carry 12 R-77 medium-range air-to-air missiles internally.

  
  

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Russia’s Moscow air show (MAKS) can usually be counted on for the unexpected, and the 2015 event, running Aug. 25-30, was no exception, with new and evolved weapons—including the quiet advent of what might be one of the first operational high-power microwave (HPM) systems—emerging in public view.