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Publithtd by
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Author:
Lamzutov,
V.
(Moscow)
Title:
DEVELOPERS TELL ABOUT NEH AIRCRAFT
ENGINES IN MOSCOW EXHIBITION
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primary Source:
vozdushnyy transport
April
1992,
No.
(2095),
p.
2,
cols.
1-3
Extract:
"Avladvigatel-92, "
the first spe-
cialized exhibition of its
kind,
will
be
held
in Pavilion
No.
1 of the All-Russian
Exhibition Center
(the former Exhibition of
National
Economic Achievements)
from April
6 to
12.*
A number of leading foreign
firms
from Great
Britain,
Germany,
Canada,
the United States,
France and other coun-
tries
are taking part
in this exhibition.
A showing of aviation equipment on the
ground and
in the air will
be held
at
Ku-
binka Air Base on the occasion of the ex-
hibition
"Aviadvigatel-92. "
Participants
and guests of the exhibition and represen-
tatives of military attaches'
offices and
firms accredited
in Moscow will
see group
and
solo flights of modern military air-
craft complexes,
helicopters,
and sports
and
light airplanes,
as well
as aerobatics.
This
is what was
related
to journal-
ists
in detail
at
a press conference which
was opened by Anatoliy Bratukhin,
general
director of the Russian Ministry of
Indus-
try^ Department of the Aviation
Industry.
Taking part
in
the press conference were
Donat Ogorodnikov,
head of the Central
Sci-
entific Research
Institute of Aircraft
En-
gine Building
imeni
Baranov;
Valentin
Kli-
mov,
general
director of the
all -Union as-
sociation
"Aviaeksport";
Viktor Chepkin,
general
designer of the scientific produc-
tion association
•'Satunr
imeni
Lyulka-
Nikolay Dmitriyevich
Kuznetsov,
general
de-
signer of the scientific production associ-
ation
"Trud"
in
Kuybyshev,
a
Lenin
Prize
laureate and one of the oldest designers of
aircraft engines;
and others.
In
response to
a question from your
correspondent,
Kuznetsov said that
his firm
would show visitors
to the exhibition
the
NK- 9 3 ,
a new propfan engine with
an ultra-
high degree of ducted-fan action.
This
en-
glne
Is
intended for airplanes with
large
passenger capacities,
including airplanes
of the
IL-96M and TU-204 types.*
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April
28,
1992
p.
4,
col.
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( interviewer)
Title:
DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER MODERNIZA-
TION QL IEM pasMMM airplane
Primary Source:
Vozdushnyy transport
April
1992,
No.
(2095),
p.
4 ,
cols'.
1-5
Abstract:
The
full -page article
is
an
in-
terview with Vyacheslav
Ivanovich
Teren-
tyev,
chief designer and
first deputy qen-
designer of the Design and
Experimen-
tal
Bureau
imeni
Ilyushin.
Terentyev
focuses attention on
the
features,
equipment and certification of
the
IL-96 passenger airplane,
which was
in
the
initial
stage of performance testing.
He reports that the Voronezh plant
has
com-
pleted preparations
for introducing this
airplane
into series production without
re-
ducing production of IL-86 airplanes.
A
test model
of the
IL-96 with
a takeoff
weight of 238.7 tons
recently completed
a
nonstop round-trip flight from Moscow to
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.
This airplane
made the 14,800-kllometer trip
In
18 hours
and
9 minutes.
Practically all
of the on-
board equipment of the first
IL-96s
is So-
viet-made.
For example,
the Scientific
Research
Institute of Aviation
Equipment,
which
is headed by
B.
Abramov,
developed
a
digital
pilotage-and-navigation complex
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which
Is said to be
up to the standard of
the latest Western aircraft,
such as the
MD-11
and A-340.
Terentyev went on to mention versions
of the
IL-96-300 whose development
has been
proposed.
The bureau seeks
to bring the
airplane's takeoff weight
up
to 240 tons
and Increase
Its flying range
to
13,000-
15,000
kilometers by Increasing the capaci-
ty of Its
fuel
tanks
to
150,000 kilograms
of kerosene and equipping the airplane with
more economical
engines,
for example.
It
Is proposed
to Increase the
IL-96's passen-
ger capacity to 400 by lengthening
Its
fu-
selage.
Also envisaged are versions of the
IL-96 with
a
lengthened fuselage and two
engines with
a thrust of more than
30 tons
each,
or with engines and pilotage-and-nav-
Igatlon equipment produced
In other coun-
tries.
A photograph of
V.
Terentyev
Is given.
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Author:
Zhomin,
V.
(Dushanbe)
Title:
FIRST OPERATION PERFORMED ON BOARD
MI -8 MT)/ AMBULANCE HELICOPTER
Primary Source:
VozdusJmyy transport,
April
1992,
No.
(2095),
p.
2,
cols.
4-5
Entire Text:
An alarm signal
was received
from
a sanitary unit before helicopter com-
mander Vitally Tikhonov's crew had
had time
to go on duty.
A woman was
In very grave
condition
In the
remote village of Zlddy.
An MI-8 MTV
"Hospital" helicopter soon
soared skyward.
This aircraft
Is specially
equipped with modern medical
apparatus
which allows surgical
operations
to be per-
formed both on the ground and
In the air.
Candidate of Medical
Sciences Viktor
Sergeyevich Trubnlkov,
a docent,
and Muzad-
dar Radzhabov,
a medical
assistant,
flew to
help the gravely
111
woman.
The helicopter landed
in 30 minutes.
Trubnikov quickly examined the woman and
decided to operate Immediately,
which was
done.
The MI-8 MTV
"flying hospital"
has
been
in the Republic of Tadzhikistan
for
several
months.
It can
fly quickly on
emergency ambulance assignments,
but this
was the first time that
an operation
had
been performed on board
it.
(Two photographs are given showing the
MI-8 MTV helicopter
In the
air,
and
V.
Trubnlkov.)
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Author:
Zhdannikov ,
Dmitriy
Title:
PROJECT FOR RAISING SUBMARINE
“KOM-
SOMOLETS'
POSTPONED TNDEFTnTTEL?
Primary Source:
Nezavisimaya gazeta,
April
14,
1992,
No.
(243),
p.
2,
col.
Extract:
A press conference on the occa-
sion of the third anniversary of the
loss
of the submarine
" Komsomol ets"
has been
held
In the main staff of the Navy of the
Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS).
With
regard
to
a project for raising
the
"Komsomol ets" which Netherlanders
pro-
posed
to carry out for 300 million,
V.
I.
Aleksin,
chief navigator of the Navy,
stated that there
is
no need
for this
at
the present
stage.
"There has hardly been
time
to ascertain conclusively the reason
for the
loss,"
he declared.
"On the other
hand,
It
Is difficult to forecast how the
submarine and
its reactor will
behave dur-
ing the raising."
Aleksin declared that clashes between
American and Russian submarines,
which
are
becoming more frequent,
necessitate
an
agreement between the navies of the United
States and the CIS.
This
Is why,
in March,
he turned over to Captain
Ionov of the
U.S.
Navy the draft version of an agreement
in
regard
to halting incidents
in
naval
train-
ing
ranges on the
sea.
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cor -
Auinors:
Biryukov ,
V
Karpov ,
respondents
(Uzbekistan)
Title:
CHEMICAL-DEFENSE FACILITY'S SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS DEFENDED
Primary Source:
Trud,
April
15,
1992,
No.
(21588),
p.
4,
cols.
4-7
Abstract:
The article recounts
a
recent
visit
to
a formerly secret military test
facility which
is
located on the Ustyurt
plateau
in
Kara-Kalpakia.
Military repre-
sentatives
and
local
medical
personnel
re-
sponded to rumors that
a nuclear-weapons
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proving facility
is being built here or
that military specialists are engaged
In
development of biological
weapons and other
activities which threaten the environment
and the safety of the
local
population.
Doctor of Biological
Sciences
Ch.
Abdlrov,
director of the
Institute of Clinical
and
Experimental
Medicine,
expressed doubt that
the facility presented any biological
haz-
ard
to people living
In
Its
vicinity.
The Nukus garrison,
which was then
headed by Colonel
Aleksey Yakovlevich Tka-
chev,
a doctor of technical
sciences,
Is
said to be directly subordinate to the head
of chemical
troops of the Armed
Forces of
the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS).
Tkachev denied that the test
facil-
ity was responsible for pollution of the
Aral
Sea or other environmental
conditions
In
the area.
He explained that personnel
of the facility have been testing chemical
defense equipment
In extreme conditions on
the Ustyurt plateau.
No tests
have been
conducted there for two years,
however,
and
chemical
and biological
weapons
have never
been tested at the facility.
Dummy bombs
filled with
insignificant amounts of sarin,
soman
and military gases have been exploded
at the
facility,
In enclosed areas which
are strictly guarded.
These gases disap-
pear
In
two
to three days.
While testing
was
In progress,
every precaution was taken
to ensure the safety of people and animals.
Ecological
monitoring was done by
a
special
unit of the garrison.
Tkachev denied that
any testing of nuclear weapons
has been
conducted
at the facility.
On
the following day,
General -Colonel
Stanislav Veniaminovich
Petrov,
head of
chemical
troops of the CIS Armed
Forces,
and General -Major A.
Karyakin,
first deputy
head of chemical
troops,
agreed
to meet
with the authors of the article and granted
them permission to visit the secret test
facility and
a military camp on
its
grounds.
Petrov
said that the chemical
troops are prepared to work on methods
for
suppressing dust,
purifying soils and pre-
venting dispersion of salts over Uzbek ter-
ritory,
by agreement with the
local
author-
ities.
Scientific forces are available,
but
funds are needed for such
a project.
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Authors:
Brilev,
S.;
Kucher,
St.,
cor-
respondents
(Washington and Moscow)
Titles
11 TOPAZ- JJ
11 DEAL PROMPTS CRITICISM
OF LLS. BMGATNTNG TACTICS
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Primary Source:
KoinsoiiioTskaya pravda,
April
15,
1992,
No.
(20371),
p.
2,
cols.
Extract:
Talks
In regard to utilization of
a nuclear reactor,
"Topaz-II,"
In the Unit-
ed States began several
months ago.*
This
reactor was developed at the Kurchatov
in-
stitute.
At
a press conference which was
held
recently at the White House,
two high-rank-
ing generals from the Pentagon announced
that the U.S. Air Force
Is buying the
"To-
paz-II"
for 7.5 million dollars
--
In order
to help Russia,
it would appear.
The administration
In charge of the
Strategic Defense
Initiative
has already
requested permission
to
use the reactor
In
Its program,
which had been criticized
so
much by Soviet
leaders
as recently as
sev-
eral years ago.
Usually,
the Soviet Union
demanded assurances from foreign partners,
to whom It was selling space or nuclear
technologies and equipment,
that
they would
be used only for peaceful
purposes.
This
Is what the Main Administration
for Devel-
opment and Use of Space Technology for the
Economy and Scientific Research
(Glavkos-
mos)
was doing,
for example.
Time
softens
principles,
and
In addition the
"Topaz" was
sold without
Its participation.
"We don't
intend
to
sell
anything
at
prices below cost,"
assured
0.
Firsyuk,
deputy head of Glavkosmos.
"And,
for the
present,
a sale of
'Mir'
Is not even belnq
discussed."
A
law which bans
the export of space
technologies and objects
to the now former
socialist countries continues
to be
in
force
In the United States.
In practice
any satellite,
whether
It be British of
French,
Brazilian or Australian,
has
at
least one American component.
This means
that we don't have the right to
launch them
without having received
a license from the
U.S.
State Department.
We are now competing for the
launch of
two South Korean communications
satellites,
which also have American components.
Glav-
kosmos twice applied
to the State Depart-
ment for licenses — and was turned down
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both times.
As
a
result,
we failed
to receive
about
3 billion dollars
in
the
last
5 years
alone.
The Americans are pressuring us to
give
up certain joint projects
involving
the transfer of space technologies
to
In-
dia,
which refuses
to join the Treaty on
the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
They themselves,
though,
a few days
ago offered
India military satellites and
modern airplanes
In exchange for the right
of American warships and submarines
to
enter Indian ports
Incidentally ,
It has now been discov-
ered that what we
sold was not an operating
"Topaz" but
a stand-testing model.
By con-
ducting tests with
this model,
the
Penta-
gon,
which bought
it for 7.5 million dol-
lars,
expects
to obtain
an economic benefit
in the hundreds of millions.
*See also the Daily SNAP,
January
16,
1992,
p.
1,
col.
(SNAP 920505)
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Author:
Tsarev,
I.
Title:
NEW BOOK_ PROMPTS CALL FOR DIS-
CLOSURE OF PS YCHOLOGICAL-WEAPONS R&D~
Primary Source:
Trud ,
April
To,
1992,
No.
(21585),
p.
4,
cols.
5-7
of bioenergy information science for more
decades
than one.
On March
12,
1991,
at
a meeting
in the
Academy of Sciences,
Ye.
Aleksandrov,
cor-
responding member of the USSR Academy of
Sciences,
identified organizations which
were engaged
in
'pseudo-science,'
in
his
opinion.
The cost of research of spinor
(tor-
sion)
or microlepton fields which allegedly
transmit thoughts over distances proved
to
be 23 million
rubles
for projects under the
auspices of the USSR Ministry of Defense
alone,
while the amount appropriated
through the USSR Cabinet of Ministers'
mil-
itary-industrial
commission and the USSR
State Security Committee was approximately
500 million
rubles.
Can Aleksandrov be correct
in assert-
ing that
all
of this work on development of
psychological
weapons
is worthless?
The
commission
"Fenomen"
has
a
list of 26 ex-
ecutors of work on the problem of
"torsion"
fields.
On
this
list are very reputable
institutes
and
firms and also eminent
sci-
entists,
including academicians.
Has
the time perhaps
come
to make de-
velopments
in the field of
"psi" weapons
public,
in order to be consistent
in our
striving for disarmament?
We
hope that
such
an open dialogue will
take place.
And
the
"Fenomen"
commission will
continue
its
investigation
for the time being.*
Extract:
An ultrasecret experiment of Ame-
rican military services which was aimed at
the possible
use of telepathy for their
purposes was described
in
an article by
Jacques Berger entitled
"Thought Transmis-
sion — A Military Weapon."
This article
was published
in
France
in December of 1959
and caused considerable commotion.
We turned for explanations
to the au-
thors of a book,
Psychotronic War
(Psikho-
tronnaya voyna)
,
which
is
to be published
by the publishing house of the Society for
Studying Mysteries and Riddles of the
Earth.
"How authentic
is this case?," we
asked.
It would be difficult
to select
a
more competent
source;
Doctor of Biological
Sciences
6.
Gurtovoy,
a professor of bio-
physics,
and
I.
Vinokurov,
a physiologist,
have been engaged
in
research
in the field
*See also the Daily SNAP,
October
18,
1991,
p.
2,
col.
2;
April
9,
1992,
p.
3,
col.
(SNAP 920505)
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