Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the Irkutsk aviation plant on Jan. 30 and he had a closeup look at a modernized Su-30SM.
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Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The first modernized Su-30SM is being prepared for test flights. There will be a total of three aircraft in the flight test program.
Head of the company’s assembly and test production, Andrey Balchugov, told reporters that by end of the year, all Su-30s will be manufactured without French or Israeli parts.
Завод в Иркутске взялся за капитальный ремонт истребителей Су-30