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Russia to buy 2,000 aircraft in next decade
The Russian Air Force plans to buy up to 2,000 aircraft and helicopters by 2020.
Gary Parsons - 1-Dec-2010
Sukhois Su-35 will form the backbone of the Russian Air Force over the next decade.
December 1: As European air forces dwindle in size, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that the Russian Air Force plans to buy up to 2,000 aircraft and helicopters by 2020 together with a significantly increase in high-precision weapons.
A deputy air force commander, Lt General Igor Sadofyev, is reported to have confirmed that 1,500 new aircraft would be purchased and some 400 refurbished over the next ten years. Among the new buys will be Sukhoi Su-27SM, Su-30M2 and Su-35S multirole fighters, Su-34 fighter-bombers and Yak-130 combat trainers as well as Kamov Ka-52 and Mil Mi-28N attack helicopters, Mi-8 armed assault helicopters, Ka-226 and Ansat-U light multipurpose helicopters.
Planned modernisation programmes will update Tupolev Tu-160, Tu-95MS, Tu-22M3 bombers and Ilyushin Il-78M aerial tankers.
It was announced on July 19 that the Russian Air Force intends to acquire ten Sukhoi T-50 PAK/FA fifth-generation fighter aircraft for test and evaluation purposes between 2013 and 2015, with a further 60 orders envisaged post-2016.
Filed Under Military Aviation News.
AFI
The Russian Air Force plans to buy up to 2,000 aircraft and helicopters by 2020.
Gary Parsons - 1-Dec-2010
Sukhois Su-35 will form the backbone of the Russian Air Force over the next decade.
December 1: As European air forces dwindle in size, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that the Russian Air Force plans to buy up to 2,000 aircraft and helicopters by 2020 together with a significantly increase in high-precision weapons.
A deputy air force commander, Lt General Igor Sadofyev, is reported to have confirmed that 1,500 new aircraft would be purchased and some 400 refurbished over the next ten years. Among the new buys will be Sukhoi Su-27SM, Su-30M2 and Su-35S multirole fighters, Su-34 fighter-bombers and Yak-130 combat trainers as well as Kamov Ka-52 and Mil Mi-28N attack helicopters, Mi-8 armed assault helicopters, Ka-226 and Ansat-U light multipurpose helicopters.
Planned modernisation programmes will update Tupolev Tu-160, Tu-95MS, Tu-22M3 bombers and Ilyushin Il-78M aerial tankers.
It was announced on July 19 that the Russian Air Force intends to acquire ten Sukhoi T-50 PAK/FA fifth-generation fighter aircraft for test and evaluation purposes between 2013 and 2015, with a further 60 orders envisaged post-2016.
Filed Under Military Aviation News.
AFI
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