Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Russia and Italy to jointly develop patrol aircraft




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Russian and Italian engineers will jointly develop a patrol aircraft with extraordinary technical characteristics. Under the project, intellectual systems of communication, navigation and identification produced by Italy's SELEX Company will be installed on the Be-200 and L-38 aircraft manufactured in Russia. This will pave the way for the new plane to occupy a leading position on the patrol aircraft market.
This deal between Russia's Rosoboronexport Company and Italy's Finmeccanica Group was signed at the Farnborough-2012 Air Show in Britain. Despite some doubts expressed by some experts over Russia's success at the Farnborough Show, and the absence of the "Russian Knights" aerobatic team, Russian officials have achieved definite and positive results.
One of them is an agreement on cooperation with the Italian companies SELEX Elsag, SELEX Galileo and WASS which are partners of the Finmeccanica Group. A similar partnership is also developing between Russia and Israel. The patrol aircraft, which will be manufactured jointly with the Italians, will be delivered to third countries.
The deputy head of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev said that the Russian company's partners are key figures on the market of patrol aviation equipment. The new aircraft can fulfill various tasks, including surveying border, monitoring smugglers' routes, drug trafficking and illegal immigration, monitoring the environment, oil deposits and carrying out rescue operations. A Rosoboronexport official Vyacheslav Davidenko stated this in an interview with the Voice of Russia.

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