MW: It is not excluded the appearance of the Su-57MKI of Indian assembly

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As part of the major international air show currently taking place in India, Russia presented all its new products. As it turned out, not in vain. Negotiations are already underway to locate joint production facilities for a number of aircraft in India. Our partners are most interested in the most modern Su-57 aircraft.

Military Watch Magazine writes about the possibilities of locating the production facilities of the Su-57, by analogy with the Su-30MKI fighter. At the moment, India is the largest operator of the previous generation of Su-30MKI fighters. It entered service in 2002, and over time, a number of production facilities of the Su-30MKI were transferred to India, at the moment the localization of production reaches 70%.



The experience of joint work on the Su-30MKI aircraft with India has demonstrated that our countries can cooperate in such extremely complex and high-tech projects as the creation of a production base for a fourth-generation fighter. This aircraft formed the backbone of the Indian Air Force and has proven itself in active military service.

- quotes the statement of the head of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev MW.

The production in India of the light fighter Su-75, which is a direct competitor to the American F-35, is not ruled out. The Su-75 Checkmate has already been largely adapted to the requirements of the Indian side, primarily due to the presence of an active radar with AFAR and engines with variable thrust vectoring. The participation of Indian specialists can accelerate the transition of the Su-75 project from the prototype stage to mass production.

The probability of locating Su-57 production in India is also very high due to the fact that Algeria has already ordered Russian-made fighters. It is necessary to produce fighters for the domestic market. Thus, the production capacities of the KnAAZ plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur are already fully loaded.

India, in turn, is interested in updating the fighter fleet with Russian aircraft. The conflict with neighboring China excludes the possibility of purchasing J-20 or similar developments from China. And the American F-35, after a series of accidents and Washington's control over the export and further operation of these fighters, does not look like a worthy candidate for Delhi.
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    1. prior
      prior
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      17 February 2023 12: 19
      We ourselves have heaps of these SU-57s, like shoe polish at a shoe polish factory.
      The only thing left is to transfer the production to India.
      And it will be like with domestic passenger cars: prices are the same as for airplanes and production in homeopathic quantities.
    2. Sergey Latyshev
      Sergey Latyshev
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      17 February 2023 14: 50
      Another wave of anonymous articles "India can ..." has begun, apparently.
      In real life, India, having been burned on previous joint unsuccessful projects, is silent and does not promise anything.
    3. Dmitry Volkov
      Dmitry Volkov
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      17 February 2023 18: 40
      If you want the truth, there will be a Su-57E, and there will be an MKI, because we don’t really need it, the Su-35SM is enough, and we need the MiG-41, which will also remove satellites from orbit and not only with missiles.
    4. EMMM
      EMMM
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      17 February 2023 20: 02
      Let's decide.
      India withdrew from the project due to the refusal of our developers from the two-seater option.
      The Su-57MKI may look like the Japanese drew it.
      But the main question remains - motors!

      We ourselves have heaps of these SU-57s, like shoe polish at a shoe polish factory.

      Do you know how many ready-made gliders cost in KnAAPO workshops without engines?
    5. Sergey Latyshev
      Sergey Latyshev
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      17 February 2023 21: 17
      They wrote that India withdrew on the 57th due to inconsistencies with the declared performance characteristics. (according to the Indians themselves, and not cheers PR people)
      Engines, low numbers, poor stealth:
      those. They took the money, but there was no result. (with IL it was even worse, they mastered the money “and they didn’t even start drawing)

      Engines, a small number of SU-57s - still.
      Stealth, they wrote with pomp, was fixed a year after India left. (they forgot to develop stealth glass for the cockpit, and supposedly 50% of stealth - tyutyu (it was in Zvezda))

      India decided not to invest in Su-75 at all