RUSSIAN AIR FORCE GETS FIVE SU-34 STRIKE AIRCRAFTS
January 25, 2013 – 15:13 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Russia’s Novosibirsk aircraft plant, part of the
Sukhoi holding, delivered five multirole Su-34 strike aircrafts
to the Russian Air Force on Friday, Jan 25, the manufacturer said,
according to RIA Novosti.
The jets will make a nonstop ferry flight from Novosibirsk to an air
base in Voronezh, southwest Russia, a distance of over 3,000 kilometers
(1,800 miles).
Six Su-34s were delivered to the Air Force in 2011, as part of an
initial contract signed in 2008 for 32 aircraft. The Voronezh base
received its first five Su-34 warplanes in late December.
Last year, the Defense Ministry said it would take delivery of 10
Su-34s in 2012, all of them to be deployed in the Western Military
District.
The Air Force is due to get 92 Su-34s by 2020, in a contract signed
in March 2012. Together with the 2008 contract, the Air Force will
eventually have a total of 124 Su-34s.
A two-seat derivative of the Su-27 fighter, the Su-34 can carry a
payload of up to eight tons of precision-guided weapons over 4,000
kilometers.
The aircraft will eventually replace all of the ageing Su-24 strike
aircraft in service with the Air Force and Navy.
The first Su-34s were manufactured in Novosibirsk in 2006, with series
production starting in 2008.
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