Su-34 Tactical Bomber: News

miketheterrible wrote:

Hole wrote:Aviacor, Samara (formerly Tu-95MS and Tu-154. Today ???)
Aviastar, Uljanovsk (Il-476 and Il-78M-90A)
Beriev, Taganrog (Be-200, modernisation of A-50)
Irkutsk Plant, Irkutsk (Su-30, Yak-130, MS-21)
Kazan Aviation, Kazan (Tu-214, new Tu-160M2)
Kazan Helicopters, Kazan (Mi-8, Mi-38, Ansat)
Knaapo, Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Su-30, Su-35, Su-57)
KumAPP, Kumertau? (Ka-31/-35, Ka-32, Ka-226)
RAC MiG with 2 factories in Moscow (MiG-29 versions like MiG-35 and so on)
Sokol, Nizhny Novgorod (MiG-29UB?, Il-114?)
NAPO, Novosibirsk (Su-34)
Progress, Arsenyev (Ka-52, Ka-62)
Rostvertol, Roston-on-Don (Mi-35M, Mi-28N/UB/M, Mi-26)
UUAPO, Ulan-Ude (Mi-8 versions)
VASO, Voronezh (Il-112)

So which plants does this moron propose to close since he says half of them?  All those plants are in use for production.

kvs wrote:BTW, people are fixated on published estimates of state orders.   I would not put any value in these numbers.  It is clear that Russia
tries to hide its true potential so as to not have its enemies be ready to overwhelm it with force.    I know that it is a fine balance
between looking weak and attracting an attack, and not alerting your enemies to your true potential.   But I think that we have seen
this policy be a stellar success.   While NATO pinhead deciders were snoozing and wanking themselves silly about how weak Russia
was, it managed to rebuild its military capacity and its broader economy as well.    This philosophy of not advertising one's potential
can also be seen in Russia's secrecy about is oil and gas reserves (they are a state secret).    

magnumcromagnon wrote:

kvs wrote:BTW, people are fixated on published estimates of state orders.   I would not put any value in these numbers.  It is clear that Russia
tries to hide its true potential so as to not have its enemies be ready to overwhelm it with force.    I know that it is a fine balance
between looking weak and attracting an attack, and not alerting your enemies to your true potential.   But I think that we have seen
this policy be a stellar success.   While NATO pinhead deciders were snoozing and wanking themselves silly about how weak Russia
was, it managed to rebuild its military capacity and its broader economy as well.    This philosophy of not advertising one's potential
can also be seen in Russia's secrecy about is oil and gas reserves (they are a state secret).    

Don't tell franco that, he puts his entire life-savings into these reports.

George1 wrote:Russia’s top brass to sign contract for several dozen upgraded Su-34 bombers — source

The aircraft will integrate the latest avionics suite developed under the Sych experimental design work

MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Defense Ministry plans to sign a new contract in the summer for the delivery of several dozen Sukhoi Su-34 frontline bombers to the Aerospace Force with their combat capabilities expanded under the Sych experimental design work, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday.

"The Defense Ministry plans to sign a contract with the Sukhoi Company this summer for the delivery of several dozen Su-34 planes to the troops with expanded combat capabilities. The aircraft will integrate the latest avionics suite developed under the Sych experimental design work," the source said.

The Sych experimental design work was completed in 2019 and, in particular, "it envisages installing underslung reconnaissance containers on Su-34s," the source specified.

"Also, the range of air-launched weapons, which the Su-34 will be able to employ, increases significantly in the process of this work," the source said.

Eventually, there are plans to upgrade operational Su-34 planes," the source said.

TASS has no official confirmation of this information provided by the source.

https://tass.com/defense/1121765

dino00 wrote:Dry air: Defense Ministry to purchase an improved version of the Su-34

Until 2027, it is planned to supply 76 of the latest modernized bombers

dino00 wrote:

In order to equip the updated bomber as part of the Sych development work, three replaceable hanging containers with reconnaissance equipment are being developed. They significantly exceed the capabilities of the embedded equipment and should give the aircraft a qualitatively new ability to detect targets.

A variant of the container with the designation UKR-RT is intended for electronic reconnaissance, UKR-OE for optoelectronic, and UKR-RL for radar. They all use a single data bus to interact with the aircraft.Suspended equipment will give the Su-34 the ability to detect the work of radars and radio stations over hundreds of kilometers, as well as determine their coordinates. With the UKR-RL container, the bomber will be able to “see” at any time of the day, even through dense clouds.[/size]

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