Russian Concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET) has developed an upgraded BINS-SP2M strapdown inertial navigation system for the fif...
Russian Concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET) has developed an upgraded BINS-SP2M strapdown inertial navigation system for the fifth-generation Sukhoi T-50 (PAK FA) fighter.
The system which can be integrated with Russian GLONASS, space-based satellite navigation system and can autonomously processes navigation and flight information. It can also determines position and motion parameters in the absence of satellite navigation.
The BINS-SP2M navigation system consist of laser gyros and quartz accelerometers, instruments for measuring the acceleration of moving objects.
The system will make PAK FA more effective for use in the network-centric warfare model, which requires air, land, and naval forces to be combined into a single network.
Strapdown inertial navigation systems are rigidly fixed to the moving body. Earlier inertial navigation systems acquired a reference coordinates set by installing accelerometers and gyroscopes on a gimbaled gyrostabilized platform. The gimbal suspension isolated the platform from rotations of the aircraft.
The system is guaranteed to last at least 10,000 hours, almost twice as long as its foreign counterparts.
The navigation system was developed by two KRET enterprises, Moscow Institute of Electromechanics and Automatics (MIEA) and Ramensky Instrument Engineering Plant (RPZ).
The previous version of the BINS-SP2 was installed and tested onboard the Russian 4 ++ generation Su-35S, the world’s most powerful and maneuverable fighter jet. It can be installed in marine and terrestrial equipment.
Found in 2009, KRET is Russia’s largest holding company in the radio-electronics industry, part of Rostec Corporation.
KRET specializes in the development and manufacturing of avionics systems for civil and military aviation, air-based radar, state identification systems, multipurpose instrumentation, electrical connectors, and cable systems.
KRET also supplies advanced Himalayas electronic warfare (EW) system for the T-50.
