{"id":197703,"date":"2008-01-16T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/russian-fighters-integrate-western-system\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T01:58:00","slug":"russian-fighters-integrate-western-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/russian-fighters-integrate-western-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Fighters Integrate Western System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has licensed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/16\/220747\/russian-fighters-to-use-thales-damocles-targeting-pods.html\">Thales Damocles targeting pods with Su-27 class fighters<\/a>.  It&#8217;s flown on Malaysia&#8217;s Su-30MKM, and the Russian air force will be adopting the pod, which was chosen after a competition with the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant (UOMZ) Sapsan and Solux targeting pods.<\/p>\n<p>This is fairly significant, for a number of reasons. <\/p>\n<p>I believe that this is the first time that Russia has license produced a western weapons system of this sophistication, and it is the first time that the manufacturer has incorporated sophisticated western electronics into one of their aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>This may make it much easier for operators of western equipment to integrate fleets of Russian aircraft in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has licensed the Thales Damocles targeting pods with Su-27 class fighters. It&#8217;s flown on Malaysia&#8217;s Su-30MKM, and the Russian air force will be adopting the pod, which was chosen after a competition with the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant (UOMZ) Sapsan and Solux targeting pods. This is fairly significant, for a number of reasons. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}