Kubinka (Moscow region). August 25. INTERFAX-Rosoboronexport is discussing with foreign customers the issue of creating a two-seat version of the Su-57 fighter, the head of the company Alexander Mikheev said.
"There are partners who have their own industrial aviation platform and are ready to discuss technological cooperation schemes with us, including, perhaps, even creating a two - seat version for their financing, "Mikheev said on Wednesday on the Zvezda TV channel.
In June, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Sukhoi Design Bureau are planning to develop a two-seat version of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter in an export version.
The Su-57 was developed by Sukhoi (part of the UAC) and is manufactured at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ). This is a multi-purpose fighter of the fifth generation, designed to destroy all types of air targets in long-range and short-range battles, defeat ground and surface enemy targets with overcoming air defense systems. Its first flight took place on January 29, 2010.
At the end of 2020, the Russian Armed Forces received the first serial Su-57. In total, by 2028, the Russian military should receive 76 Su-57 fighters and re-equip three aviation regiments with them.
Earlier it was reported that the first Su-57 will be produced in serial form, but with engines of the previous generation. The engine of the "second stage" (product 30 produced by the United Engine Corporation, UEC), which will provide the Su-57 with supersonic cruising speed, began flight tests in December 2017.
According to the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, "somewhere in 2022, the engines will already be ready, "put on the wing", and within a few years we will launch their mass production."
