
Modernized MiG-31BM interceptor aircraft have started combat alert duty at an airbase in Tver Region in western Russia, with the full modernization of the unit to be completed by the end of the year, a military spokesperson said Tuesday. “In Tver region two modernized Mig-31BM interceptors have started their combat alert duty in the Western Military District,” said Col. Oleg Kochetkov, the head of the district’s press service, adding that ...
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Russia’s air force will receive 21 Sukhoi Su-30SM multirole fighter jets in 2014, the Irkut aircraft maker said Wednesday. “We have delivered 16 Su-30SM planes so far. An additional 21 aircraft will be supplied this year,” Irkut Corporation president Oleg Demchenko said at the Singapore Air Show. Irkut and the Defense Ministry ...
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Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft maker delivered a total of 12 advanced Su-35 multirole fighters to the Russian air force this year, the air force commander said Wednesday. The Russian Defense Ministry ordered 48 Su-35s in 2009. The final deliveries are due in 2015. “We received 12 [Su-35] aircraft this year in addition to 10 delivered earlier,” Lt. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said. Bondarev said that under the contract with Sukhoi, the air ...
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T-50-5, the fifth 5th generation fighter test aircraft (PAK FA), arrived to M.M. Gromov Flight Research Institute’s airfield in Zhukovsky near Moscow today. The aircraft performed a ferry flight with three interim landings from UAC’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur facility where the aircraft was assembled to Zhukovsky airport. Yury Vashchuk, Sukhoi Chief Pilot, honored test-pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation, world-class master of air sports, piloted the aircraft. T-50-5 performed well during the ...
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Russian Air Force is developing a fifth-generation unmanned fighter jet fighter and a completely new missile defense system which can simultaneously engage several supersonic targets in space, it has been revealed at the International Aviation and Space Show MAKS-2013. […] ...
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Russia will deliver another batch of twelve Su-30MK2 fighter aircraft under a recent contract worth about $450 million, a defense industry source told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. The contract was reportedly signed last week, and the Su-30s are expected to be delivered to Vietnam in 2014-2015. “A similar modification, priced at $35-37 million per plane, had been earlier sold to China,” the source said. Russia has delivered a total of ...
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The first in a batch of Su-34 production frontline bombers to be delivered in 2013 to the Russian Air Force under the State Defense Order for the year was delivered by the Sukhoi Company. Following the handover ceremony at the airfield of the Novosibirsk-based V.P. Chkalov aviation plant of Sukhoi, the aircraft departed for its assigned home base. Several more Su-34 bombers will be delivered to the Russian Air Force shortly. The work to ...
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