MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. The Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East (part of the United Aircraft Corporation within the state tech giant Rostec) has delivered a new batch of advanced Su-35S fighter jets to Russia’s Aerospace Forces, the Rostec press office reported on Tuesday.
"Our aircraft manufacturers have reached a good pace of rolling out combat aircraft and timely deliver them to the Russian Aerospace Forces. This is not the last delivery of aircraft this year. The Su-35S is one of the basic fighters in service with the Russian army and enjoys merited success. This supermaneuverable aircraft can accomplish a broad range of objectives and employ an entire spectrum of existing and future aircraft armaments," the press office quoted Rostec First Deputy CEO Vladimir Artyakov as saying.
United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Head Yury Slyusar stressed that the corporation kept delivering aircraft to the Russian Aerospace Forces on schedule.
Su-35 fighter
The Su-35 (NATO reporting name: Flanker-E+) is a Russian generation 4++ multirole supermaneuverable fighter with a thrust-vectoring system codenamed the Su-35S in Russia’s Aerospace Forces.
The fighter is designed to gain air superiority by destroying manned and unmanned aerial vehicles with missiles at long, medium and short distances in long-and short-range maneuverable aerial battles, in autonomous operations and as part of an air taskforce, engage naval and ground targets by all types of armaments in any weather conditions and also ground infrastructure sites shielded by air defenses and located at considerable distances from the aircraft’s airfield.
The fighter has a maximum take-off weight of 34.5 metric tons and can accelerate to 2,500 km/h. The Su-35 has an operational range of 1,500-4,500 km and a service ceiling of 20,000 meters.
The Su-35 is capable of employing an entire range of existing and future air-launched air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles, including precision weapons. It carries a 30mm GSh-30-1 gun, short-, medium-and long-range air-to-air missiles, Kh-31, Kh-35U or Kh-59M anti-ship missiles and various types of precision munitions and rockets as its basic armament. The fighter integrates the IUS-35 information and control system and a phased array radar capable of detecting targets at a range of 100 km-400 km.