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RUSSIAN EQUIPMENT – UNIQUE IN THE WORLD
Over the past years, Russia has steadily ranked second in the world arms trade, with 80 percent of its exports accounted for by Rosoboronexport, the sole state intermediary agency for Russia’s export/import of end defense products. The Company maintains contacts with 70 countries, offering its partners the best weapons and military equipment, which are often unrivalled in the world arms market.
About 320 Be-200s will be purchased by 25 countries world- wide in the next twenty years
Be-200 – in the skies, on ground and at sea
Professionals around the world
dubbed this amphibian aircraft the most powerful aerial fire-fighter. Over the past few years Brazil, Germany, Greece, Israel, Indonesia, Italy, Portu- gal, Malaysia, France and many other countries have seen its efficiency and reliability not only during the demo flights at the major air shows around the world, but in real fighting against forest fires as well. The latest example is the fire in northern Israel last De- cember killing 40 people. Its extinc- tion involved the specialists from 24 countries, including Russia. Now the country’s authorities have decided to form an aerial fire-fighting group. For a start, they arranged the demo flights of the Be-200 which amazed every- one. Of course! Only this machine can scoop 12 tons of water in planing mode in a mere 18 seconds and drop it with pinpoint accuracy on the fire source. Adapted for operation from water
and ground, the Be-200 can find use not only in firefighting, but also dur- ing the exploitation of large gas fields in the sea and ocean shelf areas, and can be actively employed for observa- tion of the island territories, search and rescue of people on the water. Its
transportation, passenger, ambulance and SAR versions are now available. During SAR operations the Be-200 can conduct patrol missions for 6.5 hours at speeds of 300 to 560 km/h and at the altitudes of 100 to 8000 meters. It can take up to 64 injured or 30 stretcher casualties from an emer- gency area. A modern integrated avionics
suite, the ARIA-200M, provides reli- able piloting of the Be-200 in any area of the globe and in any weather. On customer request, the aircraft can be equipped with avionics from the world’s leading manufacturers. The use of the amphibian, whose maxi- mum range is 3100 km, is especially effective in large coastal areas, where there is no developed ground infra- structure. After all, the Be-200 can be based on a 130 x 70 meters concrete pad ashore equipped with a slipway; for take-off and landing, it needs a water area 2,300 meter long with a depth of 2.5 meters. The Be-200 can take off and land on water with a wave height of 1.2 m, while the spe- cial anti-corrosion measures protect it from the salty sea water. It can also use B class aerodromes with 1800 me- ter runways. The developers of this unique machine have drawn heav- ily on vast experience with the A-40
Albatros, the world’s biggest jet am- phibian which set 148 world records. In 2010, this amphibian received
the European certificate of airworthi- ness, which greatly expanded its ex- port opportunities. The aircraft was piloted by the French, American, Ital- ian crews, who praised the technical characteristics of the Russian amphib- ian. In 2008, the Be-200ES was deliv- ered to Azerbaijan, the first foreign customer. Now, eight planes are be- ing delivered to the Russian Ministry of Emergencies to supplement its fleet of four aircraft already in service. Ac- cording to a marketing research con- ducted jointly with EADS, it is pro- jected that up to 320 Be-200s will be purchased by 25 countries worldwide in the next twenty years.
On all the seas and oceans Russia was and remains one of the
world’s largest shipbuilding powers. Russian ship developers and builders have traditionally strong positions in a systems approach to the design and construction of naval equipment. Last year, Rosoboronexport’s deliveries of naval equipment to foreign custom- ers accounted for about 23 percent of total exports and reached the impres- sive figure of nearly two billion dol- lars.
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