
China has agreed to buy two dozen fighter jets and four submarines from Russia, state media reported Monday, the country’s first large-scale weapons technology purchases from Moscow in a decade. The agreement to buy the 24 Su-35 fighters and four Lada-class submarines was signed just before President Xi Jinping’s weekend visit to Russia, said the People’s Daily, the Communist Party organ, citing state television. The report, which did not give a value for the purchases, said ...
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The Sukhoi aircraft maker delivered on Friday the first six Su-35S fighter jets to the Russian Air Force, the company said. The acceptance documents were signed by Defense Ministry officials at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft manufacturing plant in Russia’s Far East. “The Sukhoi holding has fulfilled its obligations on the delivery of this ... ...
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Russia’s fourth prototype Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter jet took to the skies for the first time on Wednesday in a 40 minute flight at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur factory in Siberia, Sukhoi said. “The fourth prototype PAK-FA made its first flight today from the Gagarin factory in Komsomolsk-on-Amur,” Sukhoi said, referring to the aircraft by its project name, an acronym for future fifth-generation tactical fighter. “The flight tested the aircraft’s overall integrity and its ...
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Russia’s Sukhoi Su-30SM multirole fighter performed its maiden flight on 21 September, with Sukhoi test pilots Sergei Kostin and Pavel Malovechko at the controls. Described as “flawless”, the 2h sortie originated from the aerodrome of the IAZ plant near Irkutsk; the main manufacturing site for the Irkut Corporation. A further evolution of the Su-30MK line and designed for use by domestic units, the SM differs from earlier export models in ...
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Russian fighter maker Sukhoi’s T-50 fifth-generation stealth fighter has completed initial approach trials to a flight refueling aircraft, the company said on Tuesday. The aircraft, T-50-2, made approaches to an Il-78 tanker in company with a Su-25UB trainer/strike aircraft. The second prototype, T-50-2 is currently conducting a range of flight trials to test the new plane’s flight envelope in subsonic and supersonic regimes and in different configurations. The first prototype, T-50-1, is ...
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Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft company is carrying out state acceptance trials of its Su-35 advanced fighter jet at the Russian Air Force’s flight test center, the company said on Wednesday. The aircraft has already undertaken more than 650 flights as part of the trials. The Air Force will accept another six Su-35s before the end of the year. “The technical characteristics of the aircraft and its military capabilities are in general in line ...
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Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is to introduce a fourth Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter into its test and development program this year, the company’s President Mikhail Pogosyan said on Thursday. “We are now testing three aircraft. A fourth will be brought in this year,” he said. Pogosyan had said earlier this year that the firm would introduce a fourth aircraft into the test program but did not disclose when. The first production standard T-50 is ...
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