http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4-L7tNdVMIntegrating Western weapons & systems on Russian aircraft - IAF experience [Aero India 2011]
Notes:
Autopilot on Russian Ac - use not for to reduce pilot stress, but for unusual attitude recover, avoiding ground collisiosn, and auto mission execution
Many Western ac of same vintage did not have a basic autopilot
Weapon Employment
Lesser Weapons with greater accuracy (West), or larger weapons with lesser accuracy (East)
su 30 more receptable for western avoinics
Legacy russian fighters not suitable for upgrades
Physical space
scheduling of data
Mil Std vs GOSt (standards and specifications)
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Axis convention
X to Front, Y to right wingtip, Z to bottom (West)
Russian - Y and Z are interchanged. Y is bottom, and Z is right wingtip
A flight test program to assess european equipt, during flight test, unexpected MAC warnings in networked environment
Russian Video is vertical scanning. Western video is horizonal scanning
Russian LRUS are custom built to fit in airframe - cannot be easily replaced by new common components.
Uncontrolled power spikes in russian aircraft causes equipment to reboot
LRU failures connected in series to russian equipment fail due to robust russian LRUs.
Weapon integration:
4.5 percent variance in Western weapons vs 14 percent for russians weapon mass
14 inch spaced lugs for west, and 10 inch spaced lugs for east. Bombs welded with both sets opposite to ech other.
Russian large area weapons. videos of weapon delivery showing dumb bomb accuracy.
Russian Equipment showed Resilence to EMI
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Podded system better/ easier for Su-30s
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