The first Su-34 will arrive in the Central Military District at the beginning of 2018

In January-March of the next year, the Central Military District of Russia will receive the first six Su-34 bombers that are well-established in Syria, Assistant Commander of the Central Military District Colonel Yaroslav Roshchupkin told reporters on Friday. The aircraft will be deployed in the Chelyabinsk region.

This will be the first delivery of such aircraft to the Central Military District. Shagol air regiment pilots have already started retraining for the Su-34 multi-purpose fighter-bomber

- said Roshchupkin.

Pilot training is conducted on the basis of the State Center for Aviation Personnel Training and Military Tests of the Ministry of Defense of Russia in Lipetsk. The pilots began to study the technological base of the Su-34 and the features of piloting technology. The retraining program also includes a specialized course on simulators.

Retraining crews will last two months.

Comments

[Sailor]

This, as I understand it, for all the years of their production, they came only in the South-East and West-West Military District, how many total of them were delivered to the Air Force?

[Safer]

More than 100. First of all, they filled airbases on the border with probable partners, which is quite logical.

[Andrey Yuryevich]

Quote: Sailor

This, as I understand it, for all the years of their production, they came only in the South-East and West-West Military District, how many total of them were delivered to the Air Force?

107 write .... during the conflict in Ossetia, 10 years ago (almost) was 2.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: Sailor

This, as I understand it, for all the years of their production, they came only in the South-East and West-West Military District, how many total of them were delivered to the Air Force?

Here is the situation at the end of November 2017:

All Su-2017 aircraft built in 34 at NAZ were manufactured under the contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense of February 2012 for 92 such aircraft. With the delivery of new four Su-18s on November 24 and 2017, 34, the total number of aircraft of this type transferred to the Aerospace Forces under the 2012 contract reached 66 units. The first two Su-34s under this contract were transferred to the Novosibirsk Air Force on December 24, 2013, the next 18 aircraft in 2014, another 18 aircraft in 2015, 16 in 2016, and now 12 in 2017. By the end of the year, four more Su-34 aircraft should be delivered to the Aerospace Forces due to the 2017 program.

With the transfer of the indicated four bombers by the Russian Air Force on November 18 and 24, 2017, the total number of Su-34s built under all contracts, including seven prototypes and pre-production models, reached 110 units.

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[Lord of the Sith]

We’ve already delivered it today. The news is fresh.

[Bronevick]

They finally waited. Congratulations to all the personnel of the 6980th Guards Air Base of the 1st category of the settlement of Shagol, Chelyabinsk Region.

[NEXUS]

Are these 34th already modernized, taking into account Syria, or the "old" model?