On January, 30 of 2019 year Minister of Defense of the RF Sergey Shoygu visited “Irkutsk” aviation plant – the subsidiary of “Irkut” corporation, where he familiarized with the production and modernization of multi-purpose Su-30SM fighters for the Russian army and the CSTO member countries.
The head of the military department was informed that two squadrons of Su-30SM aircraft had already been put into service with the Kazakh Air Force and supplies would continue. In 2019, The Armed Forces of Belarus are preparing to take the first batch of the Su-30SM.
More than 100 combat vehicles of this type are part of the Air Force of Russia and the naval aviation of the Navy. Thanks to the modernization of fighters conducted at the plant, their combat capabilities increase: the range of detection and identification of aerial targets increases; new high-precision weapons of defeat of aerial, land and sea targets at a distance of several hundred kilometers are introduced into the weapons.
Modernization of Su-30SM fighters is carried out on the instructions of the Russian Ministry of Defense by the forces of the “Irkut” Corporation and the “Sukhoi Design Bureau” with the participation of a number of leading enterprises of the Russian defense industry complex.
After completion of the tests, technical improvements can be introduced when building new Su-30SM fighter jets, as well as during the repair and modernization of aircraft previously delivered to customers.
