Head of the Lipetsk aviation center, Lieutenant-General Yuri Sushkov today shared with reporters information about upgrading the aircraft fleet. According to General, soon Lipetsk aviatsentr get fighter 5th generation Su-57.
noted, that pilots Lipetsk pioneered piloting fighters of this type after the test pilots of the 929th GLITs Defense Chkalov. State Flight Test Center located in Akhtubinsk.
Yuri Sushkov:
Akhtubinsk - Research and Testing Center, who will check that the aircraft, its combat survivability and then will recommend in the Air Force. We get it after them.
Zamglavkoma videoconferencing RF (Commander of the Russian Air Force) Lieutenant General Yudin called Lipetsk pilots the best Russian pilots, performing combat missions, put the Defense Ministry, including in Syria.
Su-57, which will be delivered in Lipetsk, It is powered by the so-called first phase of the. In this test, the latest fighter from the engines of the second stage has already begun.
Meanwhile it became known, Besovets that airport in the Republic of Karelia within the framework of upgrading the program received another batch of the latest-generation fighter 4++ Su-35S. We are talking about the latest five aircraft for the 159 th Fighter Regiment. According to some reports, the aircraft made a flight from Komsomolsk-on-Amur with several intermediate stops - at military airfields Novosibirsk and Perm regions. Official information about these regions with refueling stopover at the moment has not been confirmed. A total of Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft building enterprises (KnAAZ) must pass before the end of the year 10 Su-35S.
