Deliveries of combat aircraft to the Russian Armed Forces in 2021
In 2021, for the third year in a row, deliveries of new combat aircraft to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation remained at a very low level - only 21 new combat and combat training aircraft were delivered (one MiG-35S, one MiG-35UB, four Su-30SM2, six Su-34, five Su-35S, two Su-57, two Yak-130), which is generally in line with our forecast last year. However, it was in 2021 that the preconditions for an increase in the supply of combat aircraft in the following years emerged, which is associated with the start of the implementation of new serial contracts for combat aircraft of the Su-30SM2, Su-34, Su-35S and combat training Yak-130. The program for mass production of the fifth generation Su-57 (T-50S) fighters is gradually being developed, although, apparently, there are still several years left before these aircraft reach operational significance (including in quantitative terms).
Among the aircraft delivered to the Russian Armed Forces in 2021:
Two fifth-generation Su-57 fighters. At the end of 2021, the Russian Aerospace Forces were transferredtwo serial Su-57 (T-50S) fighters built by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin (KnAAZ, a branch of Sukhoi Company PJSC) - aircraft with tail numbers (presumably) "51 blue" (T-50S-3, presumable serial number 52201) and (reliably) "52 blue" (T-50S-4 , alleged serial number 52202), and are the third and fourth production Su-57s built by KnAAZ. According to known data, the delivery of two serial Su-57s corresponds to the planned task of KnAAZ for 2021. despite reports that the plant is due to deliver four aircraft in 2021.
In August 2018, at the Army-2018 International Military-Technical Forum, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and Sukhoi Company PJSC signed a contract for the supply to the Armed Forces of the first two production fighters of the fifth generation Su-57 (in the guise of T-50S - T-50S-1 and T-50S-2 sides) with engines of the "first stage" ("product 117"). The terms of the contract were 2018-2020, with the delivery of one aircraft in 2019 and 2020. In June 2019, at the Army-2019 International Military-Technical Forum, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and PJSC Sukhoi Company signed a contract for the supply of a total of 76 serial fifth-generation Su-57 fighters to the Armed Forces (including the first two contracted in 2018 of the aircraft).
The first serial Su-57 aircraft (T-50S-1 aircraft, serial number 51001, tail number "01 blue"), built at KnAAZ, made its first flight in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in early December 2019 and was planned to be transferred to the Ministry of Defense On December 27, but on December 24, 2019, at the final stage of factory testing , it crashed as a result of an accident, due, presumably, to a failure in the aircraft control system. The loss of the first production model of the Su-57 led to major proceedings at the personal level, including a change in the leadership of Sukhoi Company PJSC.
Flight tests of the second of two production models of the Su-57 fighter (T-50S-2 aircraft, serial number 51002) contracted in 2018 have begun in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in October 2020, it also received tail number "01 blue", and was commissioned in December 2020, but only on January 29, 2021 was it officially transferred to the Ministry of Defense. The aircraft is believed to have entered the 929th State Flight Test Center named after V.P. Chkalov of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region).The next two serial Su-57 fighters, handed over at the end of 2021, according to known data, still remain in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. According to previously published information, KnAAZ plans to hand over four Su-57s in 2022.
Five Su-35S fighters. According to available information, in 2021, KnAAZ was supposed to hand over (and, apparently, handed over) the first five Su-35S fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces as part of a new contract concluded on August 25, 2020 during the Army-2020 International Military-Technical Forum by the Russian Ministry of Defense with PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) for the supply of 30 Su-35S fighters in the period 2021-2024.
It is reliably known about the transfer of the first three Su-35S fighters built in 2021 under this contract to the Russian Aerospace Forces - aircraft with red tail numbers "58", "59" and "60". On December 13, they entered the 4th Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Center for military testing and training of personnel of the VKS named after V.P. Chkalov of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the Lipetsk airfield. At the same time, the serial numbers of these three Su-35S, which are unusually large for Lipetsk, can only indicate the temporary transfer of these aircraft to Lipetsk, with subsequent redirection to one of the linear fighter regiments.
Earlier, under two previous contracts in 2009 and 2015, the Russian Aerospace Forces received from 2012 to 2020, 98 serial Su-35S aircraft, two of which have now been written off or lost. Thus, the total number of serial Su-35S received by the Russian Ministry of Defense should now reach 103.
According to previously published information, in 2022, KnAAZ should hand over seven Su-35S fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces. The first three Su-35S fighters (red tail numbers "58", "59" and "60"), built under the 2021 program of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin (KnAAZ) - a branch of Sukhoi Company PJSC, and entered the 4th Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Center for Military Testing and Training of Personnel of the VKS named after V.P. Chkalov of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Lipetsk, 12/13/2021
Six front-line Su-34 bombers. According to available information, the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.P. Chkalov (NAZ named after V.P. Chkalov) - a branch of PJSC "Company" Sukhoi "(as part of UAC) in 2021 handed over to the Russian Aerospace Forces six Su-34 front-line bombers, which became the first aircraft built according to the agreement concluded in June 2020 by the Ministry defense of the Russian Federation with the KLA to a new three -year contract for the construction of 24 Su-34 bombers.
It was reported that the Su-34 aircraft being built under this contract are the first modernized bombers in the performance of the newly built Su-34 NVO. This version of the Su-34 NVO was developed as part of the Sych research and development project, with the ability to carry reconnaissance containers. In addition, according to reports, from 2021, a contract has begun to upgrade 24 Su-34 combat bombers to the level of the Su-34 NVO. Apparently, the Su-34 NVO is partly designed to replace the Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft.
The first four Su-34 HVO aircraft built in 2021 under a 2020 contract (tail numbers unknown, presumed serial numbers from 12-01 to 12-04) entered service in November based at the Khurba airfield (near Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory) of the 277th bomber aviation regiment of the 303rd mixed aviation division of the 11th Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Eastern Military District.
Earlier, the 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment in Khurba received 26 Su-34 aircraft in 2016-2017, with which two squadrons of the regiment were equipped (two of these Su-34s were lost in a collision on January 18, 2019 over the Tatar Strait). The third squadron of the regiment retained the Su-24M2 front-line bombers, transferred to it during rearmament from two other squadrons. As you can understand, now the Su-34s have entered service with the third squadron to replace the Su-24M2, and, apparently, it is planned to completely re-equip the 277th regiment with Su-34 aircraft.
Two other Su-34 bombers built by NAZ in 2021, presumably, were delivered in December to the 4th Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Center for Military Testing and Training of Personnel of the Aerospace Forces named after V.P. Chkalov of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the Lipetsk airfield. Photo materials of the Ministry of Defense confirmed that one of these aircraft has tail number "16 red".
Thus, in total, by the end of 2021, 145 Su-34 bombers were built under all contracts, including seven prototypes and pre-production models.
In 2022, NAZ, apparently, should hand over eight or ten new Su-34 NVO bombers. Two newly built aircraft with red tail numbers "51" and "52" have already been observed on test flights at the NAZ factory airfield at the end of January 2022.
Four Su-30SM2 fighters. At the end of 2021, the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of Irkut Corporation PJSC (part of UAC) manufactured and transferredNaval aviation of the Russian Navy four modified Su-30SM2 fighters with blue tail numbers from "78" to "81". These are the first Su-30SM (Su-30SM2) aircraft built by IAP under a contract for the supply of 21 fighters of this type for the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy, concluded by the Russian Ministry of Defense with UAC on August 25, 2020. The delivery of these aircraft marked the resumption of deliveries of Su-30SM family fighters for the Russian Armed Forces, which had been suspended since 2018.
On January 25, 2022, these four Su-30SM2 fighters entered the 4th Guards Naval Assault Aviation Regiment of the 34th Composite Aviation Division of the Baltic Fleet Aviation, based at the Chernyakhovsk airfield in the Kaliningrad region. Earlier in 2016-2018, the 1st Squadron of this regiment (formerly the 72nd Air Base) received eight Su-30SM aircraft with blue tail numbers from 70 to 77. Now the arrival of four more Su-30SM2s makes it possible to complete the completion of the complete staffing of the 1st squadron of the regiment. The main part of the regiment is still equipped with Su-24M and Su-24MR aircraft.
In total, under previous contracts from 2012 to 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense received 116 Su-30SM fighters, of which 22 were delivered to the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy. Thus, the delivery of four additional fighters will bring the total number of delivered Russian Su-30SMs to 120, including 26 for Naval Aviation.
As for the designation of the aircraft now delivered as Su-30SM2, then, as one can judge, we are talking about aircraft of the first stage of modernization. As previously reported, "at the moment, when upgrading the fighter to the level of the Su-30SM2, emphasis is placed on equipping additional aircraft weapons" and "the combat capabilities of the upgraded aircraft will be significantly expanded, including through a new range of weapons. In addition, the Su-30SM2 will be completely import-substituted. Completion of tests of the Su-30SM2 of the next stage of modernization, equipped with AL-41F-1S (Izdeliye 117S) engines, is expected only by the end of 2023.
Presumably, in 2022, IAP should hand over eight or ten Su-30SM2 fighters to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Two MiG-35S / MiG-35UB fighters. In March 2021, the Russian Ministry of Defense received one single-seat MiG-35S fighter with a tail number, presumably "17 blue", and one two-seat MiG-35UB fighter with a tail number "14 blue". These are the final two aircraft built under the contract signed in August 2018 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with UAC (which includes RAC MiG JSC). for the delivery of the first six "serial" MiG-35S and MiG-35UB fighters. The first four aircraft under this contract - three single-seat MiG-35S with blue tail numbers "14", "15" and "16" and one double with tail number "12 blue" - were delivered in the first half of the year and in the summer of 2020. The construction of the aircraft was carried out at the Lukhovitsky Aviation Plant (LAZ) named after P.A. Voronin - a branch of JSC RAC MiG. All delivered aircraft, apparently, are used in the State testing program, mainly as part of the 929th State Flight Test Center named after V.P. Chkalov of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region). Earlier in 2019, under a contract concluded in February 2017 with the Russian Ministry of Defense For two pre-production samples of the MiG-35 fighter for their connection to the expanded program of state tests of this type, single-seat MiG-35S fighters with tail number "10 blue" and two-seat MiG-35UB fighters with tail number "11 blue" were built and handed over to the Aerospace Forces.
The state of the MiG-35 program, apparently, continues to be in uncertainty, and throughout 2021 there was practically no information about its development, as well as about contracts for serial purchases.
Two Yak-130 combat training aircraft . According to available unofficial information, at the end of 2021, the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of Irkut Corporation PJSC (part of the UAC), after a break of about a year and a half, handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defense two new-built Yak-130 combat training aircraft (tail numbers unknown).
Apparently, this first two aircraft built under contractfor the supply of 25 units of the Yak-130, concluded by the UAC with the Russian Ministry of Defense on August 25, 2020 during the Army-2020 International Military-Technical Forum. Thus, since 2009, the Russian Ministry of Defense has received a total of 115 Yak-130 aircraft under various contracts - of which 12 of the first two series were built at the Nizhny Novgorod Aviation Plant Sokol JSC, and another 103 at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant.
Export deliveries of combat aircraft from Russia in 2021 were among the lowest in recent years. This is partly due to the "hung" contract in 2018 for the supply of 30 Su-35 fighters to Egypt. It is known that under this contract, KnAAZ was to produce 22 Su-35 aircraft in 2020 and eight in 2021. However, although, apparently, all of these aircraft were built, but so far none of them has been sent to Egypt, and all known Egyptian aircraft are stored in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Zhukovsky. Observers attribute the suspension of the contract to the fears of the Egyptian side to fall under the notorious American sanctions law CAATSA.
American sanctions pressure has also led to a sharp reduction in information transparency in the field of military-technical cooperation between Russia and foreign countries, as a result of which many Russian deliveries of weapons and military equipment abroad are now not publicly disclosed, or even simply hidden, which makes analysis difficult. Summing up the known data, it can be more or less assumed that in 2021 the Russian Federation exported the following military aircraft of new production:
- two Su-30MKI (A) fighters manufactured by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of Irkut Corporation PJSC - to Algeria. the first aircraft under the 2019 contract for the supply of 14 additional Su-30MKI(A) fighters to Algeria;
- two Su-30SME fighters manufactured by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of Irkut Corporation PJSC - to Myanmar. These are the first aircraft under the 2018 contract for the supply of, presumably, six Su-30SME aircraft to Myanmar;
- 10 MiG-29M / M2 fighters built by Lukhovitsky Aviation plant (LAZ) named after P. A. Voronin of RAC MiG JSC - to Algeria. These are the final aircraft under the 2019 contract for the supply of 14 MiG-29M / M2 fighters to Algeria (the first four were delivered in October 2020);
- six (or all 12) Yak-130 combat training aircraft manufactured by the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of Irkut Corporation PJSC - to Vietnam. These are aircraft under a 2019 contract for the supply of 12 Yak-130 aircraft to Vietnam.
As for the supply of non-combat aircraft to the Russian Armed Forces in 2021, the program for the mass production of Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft at Aviastar-SP JSC in Ulyanovsk continued to slip again, despite the commissioning of a new PLS-76 production line. , the installation of which at Aviastar-SP was completed in October 2019.
Only on January 29, 2021, were transferred to the Russian Ministry of Defense three Il-76MD-90A aircraft built by Aviastar-SP during 2020 - aircraft with serial numbers 0203 (registration number RF-78658, made its first flight on March 17, 2020), 0204 (registration number RF-78659, the first flight August 26, 2020), and 0205 (registration number RF-78660, first flight December 6, 2020). These three Il-76MD-90A were the fifth, sixth and seventh aircraft built by Aviastar-SP JSC under a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense dated October 2012 for the production of 39 Il-76MD-90A units.
In May 2020, it became known that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on new terms, renegotiated a contract with JSC Aviastar-SP for the supply of military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A. Under the new conditions, under the old contract of 2012, the plant was now supposed to deliver a total of 13 Il-76MD-90A aircraft, and from 2021 a new contract for the supply of another 14 such aircraft by 2028 was to come into force. On December 18, 2020, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also signed a state contract with Aviastar-SP JSC for the supply of ten new Il-78M-90A tanker aircraft.
However, in 2021, the rate of construction of the Il-76MD-90A remained low, and as a result, in September and December 2021, only two new Il-76MD-90A aircraft were handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defense - aircraft with serial numbers 0206 (registration number RF-78661, first flight in Ulyanovsk on June 10, 2021) and 0207 (registration number RF-78662, first flight on October 4, 2021). These are the eighth and ninth aircraft under the 2012 contract.
Thus, nominally in 2021, the Russian Aerospace Forces received five new Il-76MD-90A aircraft, which all became part of the 235th military transport aviation regiment of the 18th military transport aviation division of the Military Transport Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, based on the factory airfield "Aviastar-SP" Ulyanovsk-Vostochny, bringing the number of Il-76MD-90A aircraft in its composition to seven units. However, three of these aircraft passed from the delivery plan for 2020, when not a single aircraft was delivered to the Aerospace Forces.
To date, the Aviastar-SP plant has delivered a total of 13 copies (including the prototype) of the Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft and one prototype of the Il-78M-90A tanker aircraft. In January 2021, Aviastar-SP completed the construction of another Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft with serial number 0208 (registration number 78663), the start of flight tests of which was expected at the end of January. Apparently, in 2022, the production of the Il-76MD-90A will continue at the same sluggish pace, and the closure of the “cut-down” contract in 2012 with the delivery of all 13 aircraft will not occur before the beginning of 2023.
In 2021, the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy received both contracted amphibious aircraft made by the Be-200PS specialized search and rescue aircraft (in fact, these are Be-200ChS aircraft without a fire extinguishing function), built in Taganrog by PJSC Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G. M. Beriev" (TANTK; part of the UAC) - cars with tail numbers "21 yellow" (registration number RF-88456, serial number 355, made its first flight on November 10, 2020, was transferred to the Navy at the beginning of 2021) and "23 yellow » (registration number RF-88457, serial number 356, first flight June 16, 2021, was transferred to the Navy in September 2021). Both of them became part of the 190th training mixed aviation regiment of the 859th Center for combat training and retraining of the flight personnel of the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy in Yeisk.
Both aircraft became the final ones under the 2018 contract of the Russian Ministry of Defense with UAC for the supply of three Be-200 amphibious aircraft to the Naval Aviation of the Navy - one in the Be-200ES variant and two in the Be-200PS variant (in fact, the Be-200ES without fire extinguishing function). The first Be-200ES aircraft under this contract (tail number "20 yellow", registration number RF-88450, serial number 311, name "Alexander Mamkin"), built at TANTK, made its first flight in Taganrog on February 14, 2020, and on July 14, 2020 was transferred to the 190th training mixed aviation regiment of the 859th Center in Yeysk. On August 14, 2021, this aircraft crashed during firefighting work in Turkey.
Apparently, in 2021, the Russian Aerospace Forces also received another Diamond DA42T twin-engine light training aircraft assembled by JSC Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA, Yekaterinburg) from vehicle kits manufactured by the Austrian company Diamond Aircraft Industries. On August 25, 2020, during the Army-2020 International Military-Technical Forum, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with the UZGA for the supply, starting from 2021, of 20 additional Diamond DA42T training aircraft, which are intended to be used as training aircraft for training cadets of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Earlier, from 2017 to 2020, under the first contract with the Ministry of Defense of Russia, UZGA carried out the assembly 35 Diamond DA42T machines.
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