Su-27SK(Upgraded), Su-27KUB & new Flanker book

Ken Duffey wrote:

If anyone is interested........

I have just added a page of photos to my Flankers website showing the
new Su-27SK(Upgraded)variant - plus a few new photos of the Su-27KUB
side-by-side naval variant.

I have also added a short review of a new book by Andrei Fomin on the
Su-33 & Su-27KUB.

If you go to http://www.flankers.co.uk/ then click on Flankers,
Variants - then the appropriate link for the new Su-27SKU & Su-27KUB
pages.

Clicking on Flankers, Flanker References, Su-33 Naval Epic should take
you to the book review.

Enjoy!

Ken Duffey


Speaking of Sukhoi; I understand that Indonesia has cut an order for a
batch of Flankers. Considering that New Zealand has virtually dis-armed
and I heard Australia is looking at a round of "defense
rationalizations" what effect will this have down in the Southern
Hemisphere?

Bill Shuey

"Bill Silvey" wrote in message
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"Ken Duffey" wrote in message

If anyone is interested........

Snipped.................

Sir: rotary wing question(s) for you:

The Russians had been working on RWAC egress systems that consisted of
rotor-cutting charges fired perhaps one second before cockpit egress; do
you
know if that was put into production and also was it made part of the
Ka-50-2 with it's tandem rotors (which I imagine might be more difficult
to
"clear")...

TIA.

P.s., as always, a wonderful web-page!

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Bill,

The Ka-50 is fitted with a Zvezda K-37 lightweight rocket ejection system
that extracts the seat and pilot after first shedding the co-axial (not
tandem) rotors.

AFAIK, the two-seat Ka-52 and Ka-50-2 have the same system.

There is a photo of the K-37 seat down the bottom of the Ka-50 pages at :-
http://mysite.freeserve.com/aircraft...aft_portal.htm

Click on the approriate link - Ka-50, Ka-52, Ka-50-2.

Ken Duffey