According to RIA Novosti on December 27, Yuri Slyusari, president of Russia's United Aircraft Building Corporation (UAC), said that orders for the Su-57, the fifth-generation fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces, "doubled" this year, but it was finally fully completed. The Russian Ministry of Defense has received all the ordered aircraft and in 2024 "ordered more."
In an interview with Russia-24 TV, Slyusari said: "We have fulfilled the national defense order. We completed the signed contracts as planned, delivered all orders on time, and sometimes even delivered ahead of schedule at individual factories. We have seen an increase in orders for all of our factories, and some of them have seen a significant increase in orders. In terms of new aircraft, it was doubled, for example, the Su-57 aircraft. This is a complex aircraft, and we are honored to do the job. ”
However, Slyusari did not mention how many Su-57s were produced.
A new batch of Su-57 fighters was tested at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft factory announced by the Russian United Aircraft Building Corporation (UAC).
The company mentioned in the official press release that in order to increase the production of serial aircraft, the company has taken a number of measures to solve the bottleneck of the manufacturing cycle, improve the upstream and downstream of the ** chain, and enhance the factory's ability to produce aircraft.
Also on the 28th, the press service of the Ministry of Industry and ** of Russia quoted Sergei Chemezov, general director of the Russian State Technology Group, as saying that the assembly of fifth-generation Su-57 fighters is being carried out in the ** workshop, which will be delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2024. The number of fifth-generation fighters received by the Russian army "doubles almost every year."
Russia originally planned to install the Su-57 at the end of 2019, but the first mass-produced Su-57 crashed due to an accident, and the Russian Aerospace Forces were forced to postpone the time of entering the era of fifth-generation aircraft by one year. By 2022, the Russian army has already installed 6 Su-57s. The Russian army plans to receive 22 Su-57s by the end of 2024 and 76 Su-57s by 2028.
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