Alexander Vorivoshin
Su-57 Photo of the company "Sukhoi"
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. May 30. INTERFAX - Russia plans to modernize the fifth generation Su-57 fighter, said the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
"The Su-57 has just entered service, is just being supplied, and we are already thinking and preparing for a new stage of modernization. This is an ongoing process," Manturov said in an interview with the author of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program (Russia 1, VGTRK) Pavel Zarubin.
In February, Manturov said in an interview with Interfax that Russian aviators and engine engineers are working to enhance the combat capabilities of the fighter.
According to him, at present at the aircraft plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, serial production of Su-57 fighters is being developed - production is being modernized, the introduction of new technologies is continuing, and the line of assembly of aircraft is being built.
"In 2021, it is planned to increase the pace of construction of these machines in accordance with the approved schedules," the minister added.
The Su-57 was developed by the Sukhoi company (part of the UAC) and is produced at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ). This is a fifth generation multipurpose fighter designed to destroy all types of air targets in long-range and close-range battles, defeat ground and surface targets of the enemy and overcome air defense systems. Its maiden flight took place on January 29, 2010.
At the end of 2020, the Russian Armed Forces received the first serial Su-57. In total, by 2028, the Russian military should receive 76 Su-57 fighters and re-equip three aviation regiments with them.
Earlier it was reported that the first Su-57s will be produced in serial form, but with engines of the previous generation. The "second stage" engine (product 30 produced by the UEC), which will provide the Su-57 with supersonic cruising speed, began flight tests in December 2017. According to the head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov, "sometime in 2022 the engines will be ready," put on the wing ", and within a few years we will launch their serial production."
Supersonic cruising speed and in-body placement of weapons are distinctive features of the fifth generation of fighters.
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