DAILY SNAP MAY 5 1992

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,aIII SNAP
Tuesday
May 5, 1992
Soviet News Abstracts Publication
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Author: Lamzutov, V.. (Moscow)
Title: DEVELOPERS TELL ABOUT NEW AIRCRAFT
ENGINES IN MOSCOW EXHIBITION
Primary Source: Voz us nyy transport,
April 1992, No. 15 (2095), p. 2, cols. 1-3
Extract: "Aviadvigatel-92," the first spe-
cialized exhibition of its kind, will be
held in Pavilion No. 1 of the All-Russian
Exhibition Center (the former Exhibition of
National Economic Achievements) from April
6 to 12.* A number of leading foreign
firms from Great Britain, Germany, Canada,
the United States, France and other coun-
tries are taking part in this exhibition.
A showing of aviation equipment on the
ground and in the air will be held at Ku-
binka Air Base on the occasion of the ex-
hibition "Aviadvigatel-92." Participants
and guests of the exhibition and represen-
tatives of military attaches' offices and
firms accredited in Moscow will see group
and solo flights of modern military air-
craft complexes, helicopters, and sports
and light airplanes, as well as aerobatics.
This is what was related to journal-
ists in detail at a press conference which
was opened by Anatoliy Bratukhin, general
director of the Russian Ministry of Indus-
try's Department of the Aviation Industry.
Taking part in the press conference were
Donat Ogorodnikov, head of the Central Sci-
entific Research Institute of Aircraft En-
gine Building imeni Baranov; Valentin Kli-
mov, general director of the all-Union as-
sociation "Aviaeksport"; Viktor Chepkin,
general designer of the scientific produc-
tion association "Saturn" imeni Lyulka;
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov, general de-
signer of the scientific production associ-
ation "Trud" in Kuybyshev, a Lenin Prize
laureate and one of the oldest designers of
aircraft engines; and others.
In response to a question from your
correspondent, Kuznetsov said that his firm
would show visitors to the exhibition the
NK-93, a new propfan engine with an ultra-
high degree of ducted-fan action. This en-
gine is intended for airplanes with large
passenger capacities, including airplanes
of the IL-96M and TU-204 types.*
*See a so the Daily SNAP, April 28, 1992,
p. 4, col. 2
(SNAP 920505)
Author: Sidorenko, B. (interviewer)
Title: DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER MODERNIZA-
TION OF IL-96 PASSENGER AIRPLANE
Primary Source: Vozdushnyy transport,
April 1992, No. 15 (2095), p. 4, cols. 1-5
Abstract: The full-page article is an in-
terview with Vyacheslav Ivanovich Teren-
tyev, chief designer and first deputy gen-
eral designer of the Design and Experimen-
tal Bureau imeni Ilyushin.
Terentyev focuses attention on the
features, equipment and certification of
the IL-96 passenger airplane, which was in
the initial stage of performance testing.
He reports that the Voronezh plant has com-
pleted preparations for introducing this
airplane into series production without re-
ducing production of IL-86 airplanes. A
test model of the IL-96 with a takeoff
weight of 238.7 tons recently completed a
nonstop round-trip flight from Moscow to
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. This airplane
made the 14,800-kilometer trip in 18 hours
and 9 minutes. Practically all of the on-
board equipment of the first IL-96s is So-
viet-made. For example, the Scientific
Research Institute of Aviation Equipment,
which is headed by B. Abramov, developed a
digital pilotage-and-navigation complex
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which is said to be up to the standard of
the latest Western aircraft, such as the
MD-11 and A-340.
Terentyev went on to mention versions
of the IL-96-300 whose development has been
proposed. The bureau seeks to bring the
airplane's takeoff weight up to 240 tons
and increase its flying range to 13,000-
15,000 kilometers by increasing the capaci-
ty of its fuel tanks to 150,000 kilograms
of kerosene and equipping the airplane with
more economical engines, for example. It
is proposed to increase the IL-96's passen-
ger capacity to 400 by lengthening its fu-
selage. Also envisaged are versions of the
IL-96 with a lengthened fuselage and two
engines with a thrust of more than 30 tons
each, or with engines and pilotage-and-nav-
igation equipment produced in other coun-
tries.
A photograph of V. Terentyev is given.
(SNAP 920505)
Author: Zhomin, V. (Dushanbe)
Title: FIRST OPERATION PERFORMED ON BOARD
MI-8 MTV AMBULANCE HELICOPTER
Primary Source: Vozdus nyy transport,
April 1992, No. 15 (2095), p. 2, cols. 4-5
Entire Text: An alarm signal was received
from a sanitary unit before helicopter com-
mander Vitaliy Tikhonov's crew had had time
to go on duty. A woman was in very grave
condition in the remote village of Ziddy.
An MI-8 MTV "Hospital" helicopter soon
soared skyward. This aircraft is specially
equipped with modern medical apparatus
which allows surgical operations to be per-
formed both on the ground and in the air.
Candidate of Medical Sciences Viktor
Sergeyevich Trubnikov, a docent, and Muzad-
dar Radzhabov, a medical assistant, flew to
help the gravely ill woman.
The helicopter landed in 30 minutes.
Trubnikov quickly examined the woman and
decided to operate immediately, which was
done.
The MI-8 MTV "flying hospital" has
been in the Republic of Tadzhikistan for
several months. It can fly quickly on
emergency ambulance assignments, but this
was the first time that an operation had
been performed on board it.
(Two photographs are given showing the
MI-8 MTV helicopter in the air, and V.
Trubnikov.)
(SNAP 920505)
Author: Zhdannikov, Dmitriy
Title: PROJECT FOR RAISING SUBMARINE "KOM-
SOMOLETS" POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
Primary Source: Nezavisimaya gazeta, April
14, 1992, No. 72 (243), p. 2, col. 4
Extract: A press conference on the occa-
sion of the third anniversary of the loss
of the submarine "Komsomolets" has been
held in the main staff of the Navy of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
With regard to a project for raising
the "Komsomolets" which Netherlanders pro-
posed to carry out for 300 million, V. I.
Aleksin, chief navigator of the Navy,
stated that there is no need for this at
the present stage. "There has hardly been
time to ascertain conclusively the reason
for the loss," he declared. "On the other
hand, it is difficult to forecast how the
submarine and its reactor will behave dur-
ing the raising."
Aleksin declared that clashes between
American and Russian submarines, which are
becoming more frequent, necessitate an
agreement between the navies of the United
States and the CIS. This is why, in March,
he turned over to Captain Ionov of the U.S.
Navy the draft version of an agreement in
regard to halting incidents in naval train-
ing ranges on the sea.
(SNAP 920505)
Authors: Biryukov, V.; Karpov, V., cor-
respondents (Uzbekistan)
Title: CHEMICAL-DEFENSE FACILITY'S SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS DEFENDED
Primary Source: Trud, April 15, 1992, No.
64 (21588), p. 4, cols. 4-7
Abstract: The article recounts a recent
visit to a formerly secret military test
facility which is located on the Ustyurt
plateau in Kara-Kalpakia. Military repre-
sentatives and local medical personnel re-
sponded to rumors that a nuclear-weapons
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proving facility is being built here or
that military specialists are engaged in
development of biological weapons and other
activities which threaten the environment
and the safety of the local population.
Doctor of Biological Sciences Ch. Abdirov,
director of the Institute of Clinical and
Experimental Medicine, expressed doubt that
the facility presented any biological haz-
ard to people living in its vicinity.
The.Nukus garrison, which was then
headed by Colonel Aleksey Yakovlevich Tka-
chev, a doctor of technical sciences, is
said to be directly subordinate to the head
of chemical troops of the Armed Forces of
the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS). Tkachev denied that the test facil-
ity was responsible for pollution of the
Aral Sea or other environmental conditions
in the area. He explained that personnel
of the facility have been testing chemical
defense equipment in extreme conditions on
the Ustyurt plateau. No tests have been
conducted there for two years, however, and
chemical and biological weapons have never
been tested at the facility. Dummy bombs
filled with insignificant amounts of sarin,
soman and military gases have been exploded
at the facility, in enclosed areas which
are strictly guarded. These gases disap-
pear in two to three days. While testing
was in progress, every precaution was taken
to ensure the safety of people and animals.
Ecological monitoring was done by a special
unit of the garrison. Tkachev denied that
any testing of nuclear weapons has been
conducted at the facility.
On the following day, General-Colonel
Stanislav Veniaminovich Petrov, head of
chemical troops of the CIS Armed Forces,
and General-Major A. Karyakin, first deputy
head of chemical troops, agreed to meet
with the authors of the article and granted
them permission to visit the secret test
facility and a military camp on its
grounds. Petrov said that the chemical
troops are prepared to work on methods for
suppressing dust, purifying soils and pre-
venting dispersion of salts over Uzbek ter-
ritory, by agreement with the local author-
ities. Scientific forces are available,
but funds are needed for such a project.
(SNAP 920505)
Authors: Brilev, S.; Kucher, St., cor-
respondents (Washington and Moscow)
Title: "TOPAZ-II" DEAL PROMPTS CRITICISM
OF U.S. BARGAINING TACTICS
Primary Source: Komsomo skaya pravda,
April 15, 1992, No. 71 (20371), p. 2, cols.
1-2
Extract: Talks in regard to utilization of
a nuclear reactor, "Topaz-II," in the Unit-
ed States began several months ago.* This
reactor was developed at the Kurchatov in-
stitute.
At a press conference which was held
recently at the White House, two high-rank-
ing generals from the Pentagon announced
that the U.S. Air Force is buying the "To-
paz-II" for 7.5 million dollars -- in order
to help Russia, it would appear.
The administration in charge of the
Strategic Defense Initiative has already
requested permission to use the reactor in
its program, which had been criticized so
much by Soviet leaders as recently as sev-
eral years ago. Usually, the Soviet Union
demanded assurances from foreign partners,
to whom it was selling space or nuclear
technologies and equipment, that they would
be used only for peaceful purposes. This
is what the Main Administration for Devel-
opment and Use of Space Technology for the
Economy and Scientific Research (Glavkos-
mos) was doing, for example. Time softens
principles, and in addition the "Topaz" was
sold without its participation.
"We don't intend to sell anything at
prices below cost," assured 0. Firsyuk,
deputy head of Glavkosmos. "And, for the
present, a sale of 'Mir' is not even being
discussed."
A law which bans the export of space
technologies and objects to the now former
socialist countries continues to be in
force in the United States. In practice,
any satellite, whether it be British of
French, Brazilian or Australian, has at
least one American component. This means
that we don't have the right to launch them
without having received a license from the
U.S. State Department.
We are now competing for the launch of
two South Korean communications satellites,
which also have American components. Glav-
kosmos twice applied to the State Depart-
ment for licenses -- and was turned down
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both times.
As a result, we failed to receive
about 3 billion dollars in the last 5 years
alone.
The Americans are pressuring us to
give up certain joint projects involving
the transfer of space technologies to In-
dia, which refuses to join the Treaty on
the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
They themselves, though, a few days
ago offered India military satellites and
modern airplanes in exchange for the right
of American warships and submarines to
enter Indian ports ....
Incidentally, it has now been discov-
ered that what we sold was not an operating
"Topaz" but a stand-testing model. By con-
ducting tests with this model, the Penta-
gon, which bought it for 7.5 million dol-
lars, expects to obtain an economic benefit
in the hundreds of millions.
*See also the Daily SNAP, January 16, 1992,
p. 1, col. 2
(SNAP 920505)
Author: Tsarev, I.
Title: NEW BOOK PROMPTS CALL FOR DIS-
CLOSURE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL-WEAPONS R&D
Primary Source: Trud, April 10, 1992, No.
61 (21585), p. 4, cols. 5-7
Extract: An ultrasecret experiment of Ame-
rican military services which was aimed at
the possible use of telepathy for their
purposes was described in an article by
Jacques Berger entitled "Thought Transmis-
sion -- A Military Weapon." This article
was published in France in December of 1959
and caused considerable commotion.
We turned for explanations to the au-
thors of a book, Psychotronic War (Psikho-
tronnaya voyna), which is to be published
by the publishing house of the Society for
Studying Mysteries and Riddles of the
Earth. "How authentic is this case?," we
asked. It would be difficult to select a
more competent source; Doctor of Biological
Sciences G. Gurtovoy, a professor of bio-
physics, and I. Vinokurov, a physiologist,
have been engaged in research in the field
of bioenergy information science for more
decades than one.
On March 12, 1991, at a meeting in the
Academy of Sciences, Ye. Aleksandrov, cor-
responding member of the USSR Academy of
Sciences, identified organizations which
were engaged in 'pseudo-science,' in his
opinion.
The cost of research of spinor (tor-
sion) or microlepton fields which allegedly
transmit thoughts over distances proved to
be 23 million rubles for projects under the
auspices of the USSR Ministry of Defense
alone, while the amount appropriated
through the USSR Cabinet of Ministers' mil-
itary-industrial commission and the USSR
State Security Committee was approximately
500 million rubles.
Can Aleksandrov be correct in assert-
ing that all of this work on development of
psychological weapons is worthless? The
commission "Fenomen" has a list of 26 ex-
ecutors of work on the problem of "torsion"
fields. On this list are very reputable
institutes and firms and also eminent sci-
entists, including academicians.
Has the time perhaps come to make de-
velopments in the field of "psi" weapons
public, in order to be consistent in our
striving for disarmament? We hope that
such n open dialogue will take place. And
the " enomen" commission will continue its
inves igation for the time being.*
*See so t e Daily SNAP, October 18, 1991,
p. 2, col. 2; April 9, 1992, p. 3, col. 2
(SNAP 920505)
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