Vice-President of the KLA: the Su-57 project will be exported, the MiG-35 will show itself
Tarasenko made two important statements:
1. Despite India's withdrawal from the FGFA program to develop a fifth generation fighter based on the Su-57, Russia is still open to joint work on this project.
2. By Su-57 there are plans to enter the foreign market. KLA is also ready to cooperate on it on mutually beneficial terms.
According to him, United Aircraft Corporation is also going to change the approach to after-sales service, moving to a new PPO model, which will move away from scattered services to an integrated service. The UAC Vice-President stressed that for this purpose Russia is ready to use the customer’s infrastructure and create new jobs there.
India is one of the most important partners of the Russian Federation and one of the most solvent customers. Due to the fact that the Ministry of Defense of this Asian country is trying to diversify the supply of weapons, as well as making demands on technology transfer and reinvestment of the amounts paid under the contract, the local weapons the market is, on the one hand, very attractive, and on the other, extremely moody and complex.
Ilya Tarasenko answered a number of extremely painful questions, and the first of them concerned the fate of the MiG-35, who left the previous major Indian tender. According to the Russian official, multifunctional aviation MiG complex has changed dramatically since the time of MMRCA-1, and now fully meets the requirements of New Delhi.
The Russian side is ready not only to transfer the finished aircraft, but also to open their licensed production in India. Russia also hopes that the updated version of the MiG-35 will be of interest to current operators of the MiG-29. And this is more than 50 countries.
Ilya Tarasenko very carefully avoided the question of the conflict situation that arose around the MiG ship version. According to him, the official claim from the Hindus in a sharp form has been reported.
- put an end to the question vice-president of the UAC.
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