#Russia Boosts Su-57 Production Capacity

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ரஷ்யா Su-57 உற்பத்தித் திறனை அதிகரிக்கிறது; உக்ரைன் போர் மற்றும் மேற்கத்திய தடைகள் இருந்தபோதிலும் RuMoD ஆர்டர்களை எளிதாக சந்திக்கிறது

ரஷ்யா Su-57 உற்பத்தித் திறனை அதிகரிக்கிறது; உக்ரைன் போர் மற்றும் மேற்கத்திய தடைகள் இருந்தபோதிலும் RuMoD ஆர்டர்களை எளிதாக சந்திக்கிறது

தற்போதைய சிறப்பு இராணுவ நடவடிக்கைகளில் (SMO) ரஷ்யா தனது Su-57 ஐப் பயன்படுத்தியுள்ளது. SMO பகுதியில் உள்ள துருப்புக்களின் கூட்டுக் குழுவின் தளபதி ஜெனரல் செர்ஜி சுரோவிகின், செவ்வாய், அக்டோபர் 18, 2022 அன்று செய்தியாளர்களிடம் கூறினார், “போர் பயன்பாட்டின் தரத்தைப் பொறுத்தவரை, நான் குறிப்பாக Su-57 ஐந்தாவது தனிமைப்படுத்த விரும்புகிறேன். – தலைமுறை மல்டிஃபங்க்ஸ்னல் விமானம். பரந்த அளவிலான ஆயுதங்களைக்…

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Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' aircraft just a case of passenger marketing?

There is less than it seems in the proposed fighter-bomber that was successful at a recent aeronautical industry fair.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/09/2012 - 18:00 in Military

To promote their Su-75 "Checkmate" aircraft last month at the Dubai Air Show, employees of the Sukhoi Design Bureau of Russia offered bottles of a limited edition Checkmate perfume. No fragrance, however, will mask that the Su-75 is not a light tactical fighter as advertised, but a medium-weight fighter-bomber similar to the F-16V.

During an air show in Moscow in the middle of last year, Russia launched a life-size model of the Su-75, a multipurpose fighter-bomber designed to compete in the global market - but only if it obtains enough foreign orders to finance its manufacture. Rostec, the weapons production organization of the Russian government, is selling to any country that wants to hear your speech. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov states that there is "an anchor client" without naming him, but said it will be marketed to African countries, Vietnam and India.

Diplomatic pressure from the United States and the prospect of sanctions have led several countries to consider weapons manufactured in Russia to buy elsewhere, as a recent study for RAND reported. But there are other reasons for buyers to be aware, starting with the difficulty Sukhoi is facing in delivering its predecessor aircraft, the Su-57.

Russian aerospace industrial leaders claim that Checkmate can be quickly developed, mass-produced and made available to foreign buyers later this decade. A fundamental assumption, however, is that investing in the Su-57 can boost the Checkmate program. But the Su-57 has been in development for almost 15 years, and Western analysts estimate that it will not yet be operational before 2027.

Russia has been struggling to produce new models of jet engines for several years because of sanctions and export restrictions imposed after annexing Crimea in 2014. The first operational Su-57 will be equipped with the Saturn AL-41F1 low-pass turbofan combat engine - the same engine that moves the Su-35, a heavy fighter-bomber designed in the 1980s. The new engine planned for the Su-57 is not scheduled for production until the middle of the decade, if so. Can countries realistically expect Sukhoi to do better with Checkmate?

Sukhoi also states that the Checkmate is a 5th generation aircraft, but there are doubts whether it will have advanced avionics and effective stealth capacity. Western sanctions also prevented the ability of the Russian aerospace and defense industry to obtain certain technologies essential for the mass production of its own advanced combat sensors with microprocessor subsystems. It may not be that he has any stealth capacity: an analysis of the stories of the official Russian media and Rostec's press releases about Checkmate do not mention stealth technology. Without this, it is far-fetched to call it a 5th generation aircraft.

Russian and Sukhoi marketers also say that Checkmate will be the cheapest 5th generation fighter on the international arms market. It is difficult to imagine that the production problems of the Su-57 will not require large investments and that it will inevitably increase the price of Checkmate. Given how much the production schedule of the Su-57 fell, the prospect that the Su-75 will be available to foreign customers in 2025 also seems more like a marketing exaggeration.

An unmanned version of the Su-75 was also presented by Rostec at the 2021 Dubai Air Show.

Another problem arises for the entire Checkmate project: the demand for high-performance and medium-weight fighter-bombers is decreasing. In developing countries, the market may be hampered by the dramatic success of armed drones in various conflicts. For example, Turkey destroyed Russian air defense systems and ground combat vehicles in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh with precision guided missiles fired from Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles. The nature of the war is changing and armed drones cost a fraction of the price of a manned aircraft. Countries with scarce defense budgets can pass on Russia's alleged 5th generation fighter aircraft, no matter what resources they claim to have.

Given the difficulties of the Russian aerospace sector in developing, the more it delivers advanced combat aircraft, potential Checkmate buyers should consider a range of options to meet defense needs. What is attractive about the sales pitch may, in the end, be just marketing steam that will simply evaporate.

Article written by John V. Parachini, senior international and defense researcher at RAND Corporation, a non-profit and non-partisan organization. Previously, he directed the Intelligence Policy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute.

Source: DefenseOne

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work throughout the world of aviation

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