SVP 14 UPGRADE

The Russian Navy plans to upgrade the Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft with installation of the SVP-24 bombing system. Tu-95MSs are to be upgraded with the SVP-24 sighting and computing system from the Russian company Gefest & T.

A SVP-24-22-equipped Tu-22M underwent trials in 2009, and the program has been ordered into production, with deliveries from 2012. The upgrade is claimed to greatly increase navigation accuracy and bomb delivery. The Tu-22M upgrade program to SVP-24-22 is being carried out by the company Gefest & T, based on avionics developed for the Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft, including a new computer, a new navigation system and digital processing for the aircraft's radar. It is believed, the installation of modern targeting systems will increase the capability of the Su-33 fighters close to Su-30SM level. The SVP-24 takes into account data such as current plane's location together with flight parameters, target data and environmental parameters and determines the optimal trajectory for unguided ammunition. In September 2016, it was announced the Su-33 will be outfitted with new sighting and computing system SVP-24 from the Russian company Gefest & T, that will allow the aircraft to use unguided bombs with a similar precision as guided ones, giving it an ability of a strike fighter. The Su-25SM3s have SVP-24 navigation and bombing aids that allow stand off precision bombing as a result of experience in Syria. All frontline bombers Su-24 in the Central Military District received new sighting and navigation systems SVP-24 in 2013.

Modernization continues with the program 'Gefest'. The last batch of the Sukhoi was delivered to the Russian VVS in 2009. As a result, they get new capabilities and improved combat efficiency, including new navigation system (SVP-24), new weapons control system, new HUD (ILS-31, like in Su-27SM or KAI-24) and expanding list of usable munitions (Kh-31A/P, Kh-59MK, KAB-500S). The modernized planes are equipped with new equipment and systems. Next modernization of Su-24M introduced in 2000 with the 'Sukhoi' program and in 1999 with the 'Gefest' program.

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