OREANDA-NEWS. June 20, 2007. The 47th International Paris Air Show is to take place at the Le Bourget Exhibition Centre in Paris suburbs on June 18-24.

Paris Air Show 2007 is reputed as one of the most prestigious and important aerospace exhibitions in the world. According to the Organizer team of Paris Air Show 2007, there will be over 1,900 exhibitors from more than 37 countries this year.

Russia, a traditional participant in Paris Air Shows, presents aerospace products and services offered for export by more than 60 enterprises and organizations. Guests and exhibitors at the show can admire breathtaking aerobatics performed by the unique super-manoeuvrable MiG-29M multi-role fighter with thrust vector control in the skies over the Paris suburb.

The Russian exposition staged by the Rosoboronexport State Corporation on the basis of the latest trends of world aerospace market is demonstrating high scientific and production potential of the national aerospace industry. This year’s exposition shows models, mock-ups, posters and promotional materials for a full range of modern aircraft and helicopters, airborne weapons, air defence systems, dual- and civil-purpose space technologies.

The world-renowned Sukhoi and MiG multi-role fighters make up the core of the exposition. Visitors will be able to familiarize themselves with unique flight specifications of the Su-35 super-manoeuvrable multi-role fighter, as well as a mock-up of its cockpit. The 4+ generation Sukhoi combat aircraft are represented by the Su-27SK multi-role fighter, the Su-30MK, accountable for a considerable part of Russian aircraft exports, and the Su-32 fighter-bomber.

MiG-family aircraft are represented at Paris Air Show 2007 by the unique MiG-29M light tactical fighter with thrust vector control (TVC), the MiG-29SMT advanced upgrade, the MiG-29K shipborne combat aircraft, the MiG-31 interceptor, MiG-29UB and shipborne MiG-29KUB combat trainers, as well as the MiG-AT dedicated trainer.

Foreign experts will undoubtedly be interested in the Yak-130 two-seat combat trainer allowing pilots to acquire and master flight handling skills for modern fighters of Su-30/MiG-29 type, as well as their foreign counterparts, such as Mirage 2000, F-16, F-15, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-22, and F-35. The aircraft can be used both for flight training and delivering air strikes in low-intensity armed conflicts. The Yak-130 can be armed with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.

On the year of the 100th anniversary of the maiden flight of a rotary-wing aircraft Rosoboronexport and Russian helicopter manufacturers present the entire range of indigenously-built rotary-wing craft together with their onboard and ground support equipment, maintenance and training facilities.

The Mil-type helicopters are represented primarily by the new Mi-28NE ‘Night Hunter’ all-weather attack helicopter, as well as Mi-35, Mi-35P, and Mi-35M combat transport helicopters, Mi-171Sh and Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters, and finally, Mi-26T heavy-lift, or rather the world’s heaviest-lift, transport helicopter.

The family of the Kamov helicopters on display includes a Ka-50 twin-seat modification, the Ka-31 radar picket helicopter, and shipborne Ka-28 ASW and Ka-27PS S&R helicopters.

Detailed information is provided on the latest light helicopter designs, such as the "Ansat" and the Ka-226 helicopters.

Apart from delivery of finished airborne systems and armaments, Rosoboronexport offers upgrades of various aircraft and helicopters supplied earlier by improving their avionics, and expanding arsenals, and enhancing the overall operational performance. Russian aerospace manufacturers actively cooperate with European companies, such as BAE Systems, MBDA, Snecma, Thales, SAGEM DS, EADS, Rolls-Royce, and Finmeccanica.

Detailed information is available for experts in airborne missiles and other weaponry, turboshaft and turbojet engines intended for combat aircraft and helicopters, airborne radars and radar attack systems, other types of avionics, navigation, flight control, communications, and life support systems.

By tradition the exposition presents a wide range of Russian-made air defence systems, such as long-range S-300PMU2 Favorit and Antey-2500, medium-range Buk-M2E, and short-range Tor-M1 air defence systems, Tunguska-M1 and Pantsir-S1 air defence systems, as well as radars - Nebo-SVU, Protivnik-GE, and Kasta-2E2.

Being the world’s leading space technology power, Russia also presents its latest achievements in the areas of information technology, communications, and space exploration. Rosoboronexport’s transactions connected with space technologies and associated services are steadily gaining importance as regards its cooperation with foreign partners.  Contracts on putting into the near-Earth orbit of space vehicles for the United Kingdom, Algeria, Italy, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Turkey, Germany, Sweden, and some other countries, have been fulfilled successfully.   Rosoboronexport’s experts can provide detailed reference data on the entire fleet of Russian space vehicles of light, medium and heavy-lift classes.

Russian exhibitors suppose that their participation in Paris Air Show 2007 can give a renewed impetus to the development of production cooperation with foreign states. Plans are set for meetings and talks during the exhibition with the representatives of leading European aerospace companies and delegates of the Middle East and North African, South and South-East Asian, and Latin American countries.  Their agendas cover current issues, such as scientific and technical cooperation of Russian enterprises with leading Western manufacturers of aerospace systems and equipment in upgrading the Soviet/Russian legacy aircraft and helicopters, coordination efforts for Russian enterprises adopting aircraft logistic technologies, as well as application of military technologies in the development of effective anti-terrorist aircraft protection systems.

The Rosoboronexport State Corporation is confident that the work of the Russian delegation at the air show will advance mutually beneficial cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign states in the aerospace domain, as well as broaden research and production horizons for the national aerospace industry.

Mass media are invited to take part in the news conference to be given by the Russian delegation at Paris Air Show 2007 at 12H45 on June 19. The news conference will be held in Conference Centre, Hall 2, Room 3 of the Paris Air Show 2007 exhibition centre.