May 13, 2009 at 9:58 pm
INTERFAX: ULAN-BATOR, May 13.
The Sukhoi company will deliver more than additional 60 new fighter jets to the Russian Air Force until 2015, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying.
“We took the decision to upload the orders of the factory in charge of this, and it will additionaly deliver more than 60 of the most modern fighter planes to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation until 2015” V.Putin was quoted as saying at a press briefing in Ulan-Bator.
He also stressed that the fifth-generation fighter programme was progressing “according to plan” at the aforementioned factory.
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I.e.: the factory mentioned is obviously KnAAPO, which Putin visited lately.
As it cannot concern the PAK FA, and as the other production lines (see below) are running full at the moment, the only “most modern” fighter jet it is producing now is the Su-35, at the KnAAPO new prod. line.
I.e. as of now and the most recent info goes, the RuAF will get another batch of 12 Su-27SM till the end of the year/mid-2010 (out of 48 to come), modernise up to 10 Foxhounds to the BM mod every year (if the pace remains similiar), and the future of the Fulcrums is still quite bleak (which is quite logical imho).
Therefore, the RuAF air dominance/multirole/intercept/CAS and middle-range strike component will field around a hundred of modern fighters and 120+ modernised ones in 2015, plus the 50+ Su-34 and the 50+ Su-25SM.