According to the general Director of the United Aircraft Corporation Yuri Slyusar, the new car embodies the most modern technologies in the field of military aircraft construction
MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. The countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America showed interest in the newest Russian Checkmate fighter during the MAKS-2021 air show. This was announced by the general director of the United Aircraft Corporation (part of the Rostec state Corporation), Yuri Slyusar, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
"At MAKS, partners from the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America were interested in the new fighter [Checkmate]," Slyusar informed.
According to him, the new car embodies the most modern technologies in the field of military aircraft construction. "The aircraft can be adapted to the customer's wishes, it has an open architecture. This allows you to install on-board equipment from various manufacturers on it. The machine was originally designed to use almost the entire range of aviation weapons, including promising ones, " the head of the UAC noted.
In his opinion, the unmanned version of Checkmate will be popular with customers. "We believe that it [the unmanned modification of Checkmate] will be in demand among customers, because it will increase the all-course awareness, the survivability of the combat system, will give the opportunity to apply new tactical techniques," Slyusar said.
The Checkmate fighter was first presented at the MAKS-2021 air show, held in Zhukovsky near Moscow on July 20-25.
