As reported on December 27, 2023, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin of the United Aircraft Corporation (part of Rostec State Corporation) manufactured and handed over to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation the final batch of fifth-generation Su-57 fighters according to the production program of 2023.
One of the Su-57 fighters transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces built in 2023 by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, December 2023 (c) PJSC United Aircraft Corporation
"Aircraft manufacturers have manufactured and handed over to our Armed Forces all the fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft planned for delivery this year. The fighters have successfully passed all the necessary factory tests. The increase in production of these unique machines became possible due to the solution of issues related to the rhythmic supply of components and the improvement of in-line assembly technology. I believe that the KNAAZ team is adequately coping with this most difficult task," said Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In 2023, the production line of the Su-57 assembly was set up in the context of an increase in the volume of serial production of aircraft. Measures were also taken to eliminate bottlenecks not only in the final assembly shop, but also throughout the entire production cycle. Issues related to the supply of high-tech components from supplier factories are being successfully resolved, and opportunities for improving aircraft assembly technology are being worked out.
"Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant UAC is increasing the serial production of the Su-57. The final assembly workshop is already working on combat vehicles, which will be transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2024. The number of fifth-generation fighters entering the army increases almost 2 times annually," said Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation.
Production is being updated today. Already in 2024, a number of facilities will be commissioned as part of the implementation of promising technical re-equipment projects under the state defense industry development program for the serial production of the Su-57 aircraft.
In 2023, the branch of PJSC UAC - Gagarin KnAAZ successfully fulfilled the state defense order, supplying the Russian Aerospace Forces with all Su-35S and Su-57 aircraft provided for by contracts.
Also on December 28, the TASS news agency reported that all serial Su-57 fighters transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in 2024 will receive second-stage engines. This was reported to TASS by two high-ranking sources close to the Russian Aerospace Forces.
"The engine of the second stage has been tested and is ready for operation," said one of the agency's interlocutors. A second source confirmed this information and added that "all production aircraft of the fifth generation Su-57, transferred to the VKS in 2024, will receive a fifth-generation engine."
TASS has no official confirmation of this information.
According to the agency interlocutor, in 2023, more than 10 Su-57s with engines of the first stage have already been transferred to the VKS. They successfully solve tasks in the zone of a special military operation. "There are no plans to change the engines of the first stage on the Su-57 already transferred to the VKS to new engines," he said, explaining that even with the engine of the first stage, the Su-57 surpasses the American F-35 in its characteristics.
On the part of bmpd, we point out that the batch of Su-57 fighters that has now been transferred has become the second known delivery of them this year and is a continuation of the implementation of the contract concluded in June 2019 by the Russian Ministry of Defense with PJSC Sukhoi Company for the supply to the Armed Forces of a total of 76 serial Su-57 fighters (including the first two separately aircraft contracted in 2018), with a contract term of 2027. The first batch of Su-57 produced by KnAAZ in 2023 was announced post-production on September 28.
By the end of 2022, 11 serial Su-57 fighters were built under this contract, of which, after the loss of the main one on December 24, 2019 at the final stage of factory tests, the Russian Aerospace Forces received ten aircraft. In 2020-2021, KnAAZ transferred four Su-57 aircraft to the Russian Aerospace Forces, and in 2022 - six more (two in May and four in December ). Apparently, in total, about 11 Su-57 aircraft were delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2023.
One of the Su-57 fighters transferred to the Russian Aerospace Forces built in 2023 by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation, December 2023 (c) PJSC United Aircraft Corporation
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