This year the 6th International Military-Technical Forum “ARMY-2020” has become the first exhibition and convention event internationally recognized not only in Russia but worldwide as well. 

The RIPI presented several samples of its high-technology products at the exhibition facilities of the Roscosmos State Corporation in an exposition booth of the “Russian Space Systems” holding company. 

The 92 international delegations and plenty of honored guests visited the exhibition including Yury Borisov, Vice Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation.

The mock-ups of “Compact-4” air quad-band radar and active antenna module designed for the “Kasatka-R” space radar (both – with synthesized aperture) were in the highlights of our exhibition display and attracted the closest public attention.

Victor Riman, Chief Project Designer of JSC RIPI:

- Сurrently, we are working on the “Kasatka-R” high-precision radar complex (HRRC),which will be the major instrumentation equipment for the “Obzor-R” radar satellite developed by JSC “Progress” Rocket Space Center (Samara). We have completed manufacturing all the radar equipment and started its testing alongside with debugging of spaceborne software products. During the year 2020, we are planning to deliver the product to “Progress” Rocket Space Center. The launch of the “Obzor-R” spacecraft is planned for 2021. The “Kasatka-R” radar performance characteristics allow to receive Earth’s surface images with a resolution up to 30 cm at any time of day or night and in any cloud conditions.

The exhibition booth “Printed circuits” centerpiece was the LTCC-voltage controlled oscillator manufactured at the facilities of RIPI, and two multilayer ceramic microwave circuit boards designed for standard-sized transceivers. One of them has a complicated geometry; its outline repeats the component area for a baseline support structure and demonstrates capabilities for LTCC production at RIPI. The both circuit boards are mounted in the units of advanced ground and spaceborne transceiving communications equipment. There was also shown a large-sized multilayer ceramic printed circuit board (PCB) manufactured in accordance with LTCC technology for the equipment operating in a digital signal transmitting mode. The PCB size is of 150х150х2.4 mm. It is utilized in high-speed signal transmitting, receiving and processing devices operating within a microwave band, which is widely used in Space Device Engineering for advanced spacecraft manufacturing.

Valery Khodzhaev, Chief Process Engineer of JSC RIPI:

- The LTCC-technology is widely used in manufacturing of multilayer printed circuit boards for high-frequency electronic devices and chip packaging. This technology is regarded as an alternative to the multilayer printed circuit boards made of textolite and high-temperature ceramics with special requirements to them. The available LTCC manufacturing facilities of RIPI enable to produce 200 dm² of ceramic printed circuit boards per year.

The Forum participants managed to view the Mission Control Centre hardware and software complexes developed by RIPI. There was also shown a mock-up of mobile complex for receiving and processing ERS data.

The RIPI delegation at the Forum was headed by Yury Zvenigorodsky, Deputy Director General for Innovation Development, Civil Production and Foreign Economic Activity.

This year the “ARMY-2020” Forum has become the most representative for all its history. The Forum gathered more than 1300 Russian and foreign participants and there were presented about 27 000 exhibits.

RIPI Press Service,
prepared on a joint basis with Roscosmos Press Service and JSC RSC “Progress”,
www.rusarmyexpo.ru