Two Su-34 front-line bomber entered the Central Military District regiment

Two more Su-34 bombers entered service with one of the aviation regiments of the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Central Military District. The crews of the new aircraft have already flown the aircraft from Novosibirsk to the airfield of the mixed aviation regiment in the Chelyabinsk Region, the press service of the Central Military District reports.

Thus, taking into account the two newly arrived Su-34s, the 2 21 Second Division of the Smolensk Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Central Military District are currently part of the 14 14 Guards Blended Aviation Regiment of the Central Air Forces, currently in 34 in the regiment from the beginning of the year. Two new Su-34 will allow the formation of a second squadron of bombers in the regiment, especially since by the end of the year two more aircraft are expected to arrive. The entire second squadron will be formed by the end of 2019 of the year. In total, there are three squadrons in the regiment; there is no data on the rearmament of the third squadron.

The regiment personnel underwent retraining for new bombers at the Lipetsk center for training aviation personnel and military trials of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

At the moment, the Novosibirsk aircraft factory has built, counting seven experimental and pre-production samples, the 123 front-line bomber Su-34.

Comments

[seti]

God with us. It is strange that potential buyers are so weakly looking at such an airplane.

[Lord of the Sith]

The Ministry of Defense published unique footage of the landing of the Su-34

[seregin-s1]

Buyers of Russian aircraft are not so rich as to buy a Su-27 as a bomber, if you can buy a Su-27 as a fighter with the function of a bomber.

[Henderson]

Quote: seti

It is strange that potential buyers are so weakly looking at such an airplane.

Nothing strange. As a fighter, he is no one, as a bomber, he is in no way superior to the same Su-30. Nobody wants to pay for useless one and a half tons of armor. And now in IFI fashion.

[bober1982]

Su-30 and Su-34 are different machines, you have to change the good old man Su-24.
Strong strike aircraft are now in fashion.

[Henderson]

Multifunctional fighter jets are in fashion in the world. Nobody does specialized machines for a long time. The Su-34 has no advantages over the Su-30 (well, except that the pilots can pee in a jar), but on the contrary there are many shortcomings. So why spend money on it?

[bober1982]

You, directly clung to the Su-30, how can you compare the multi-functional fighter with a front-line bomber.

[Henderson]

Easy. Try to name at least one real advantage of the Su-34 as a bomber. Let it be in front of the Su-30MKI. We do not take foreign planes yet.

[bober1982]

Quote: Henderson

Try to name at least one real advantage of the Su-34 as a bomber

But, after all, these advantages must be compared with bombers.
IL-28 - Yak-28 - Su-24, or something to compare with them, well, what are you talking about.

[Henderson]

That is the point. There are no advantages, but sea restrictions. You can try to compare for example with the F-15E.
Put yourself in the shoes of the buyer. There are two aircraft, the Su-30 and Su-34. The cost is the same. But the first is an excellent fighter and an excellent bomber, and the second can only bomb. Moreover, it has much worse LTX, worse radar, worse sighting system, no more weapons, and the weapon is completely identical.
Buying a Su-34, you still have to additionally buy a normal fighter and prepare two more pilots.
So why pay twice as much and have problems about it? The market, in general, clearly demonstrated all this. Nobody needs a Su-34.

[bober1982]

On the Su-30 and Su-34 - in the crew one pilot each, the second in the crew - navigator.
You yourself mentioned a can in the Su-34 cockpit, what it is for, and then, logically speaking, the flight range of one aircraft exceeds the other.
By weight, the Su-34 is an airship, such as the MiG-31, for example.

[Henderson]

Pilots of conventional fighters also write in exactly the same banks.

Quote: bober1982

By weight, the Su-34 is an airship

Yes. But this aircraft is inferior to the Su-30 in almost all respects, except perhaps the flight range without refueling.

[Waldemar]

They cannot be completely identical. This is some nonsense.

[Henderson]

Which of the weapons of the Su-34 is not able to use the Su-30?

[iaroslav.mudryi]

Quote: bober1982

Su-30 and Su-34 are different machines, you have to change the good old man Su-24.
Strong strike aircraft are now in fashion.

There was already a public dispute between the two authors at VO:
Sergey Linnik (Bongo) with his review of October 30, 2015 “F-15E versus Su-34. Who's better?". https://topwar.ru/85124-f-15e-protiv-su-34-kto-luchshe.html and his opponent - Kirill Sokolov (Falcon) "F-15E versus Su-34. Article-response" dated November 3 2015.https: //topwar.ru/85382-f-15e-protiv-su-34-statya-otvet.html
Interesting reviews, in my opinion, are both right, and the truth, as they say, is in the middle.

[iaroslav.mudryi]

Conclusions of Sergey Linnik (Bongo):

The F-15E and Su-34 aircraft were created on the basis of heavy fighter aircraft to gain superiority in the air F-15 and Su-27. They were intended to replace strike aircraft with variable wing geometry - “air defense breakers”: F-111 and Su-24 ............ Su-34 will become the main Russian front-line bomber

Conclusions of Kirill Sokolov (Falcon):

Su-34 is very difficult to compare with the F-15E. It was created with other requirements of the MO than the Eagle. Many solutions are specific, and in this regard, the Su-34 is a unique class that has no direct analogue in the West. A direct competitor to the F-15E is precisely the Su-30СМ.

[Vladyka Ecumenical]

It’s a pity that it’s not 20, the thing is necessary.

[Boris Nevzorov]

Russia has only two allies: its army and navy
And that's it!

[Hypersound]

More VKS and, most importantly, Nuclear Forces

[Henderson]

It’s bad when nobody wants to be an ally.

[Hypersound]

2 is good, but better than 222. And most of all, we need to rivet the Gauges, Daggers and Sarmatians at an accelerated pace

[Scalpel]

Write immediately 100500

[Hypersound]

This is unrealistic, and you don’t need so much.

[iaroslav.mudryi]

At the moment, the Novosibirsk aircraft factory has built, counting seven experimental and pre-production samples, the 123 front-line bomber Su-34.

In fact, the total built Su-34 should be 128 (according to published data):

According to the results of 2017 years total number of Su-34built on all contracts, including seven prototypes and pre-production models, reached 114 units. http://rus.vrw.ru/page/aviacija-rossii-itogi-2017-plany-na-2018

from this article:

... as part of the 2-th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment ..... currently located 14 front-line bombers Su-xnumx received by the regiment since the beginning of the year.

114 + 14 = 128.

[megadeth]

2 aircraft entered the troops of the Central Military District ... that's the news !!! Would write 200, that would be news .. On the "dry" in VO people wrote abbreviations ...

[Waldemar]

There are already more than a hundred

[Kapkan]

Hello everyone from Chelyabinsk! I confirm the arrival of ducks.