Moscow to manufacture Su-57 in India instead of selling aircraft – ANI

2 September 2025 8 560 22

Amid New Delhi's growing friendship with Moscow, Russia is conducting studies to determine the level of investment that would be required to produce the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jet in India, Asian publication ANI reports.

The Asian giant's government has said it needs at least two to three squadrons of fifth-generation fighters, and the Russian Su-57 is a contender for the project along with the American F-35.

India's state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is already licensing the production of Russian Su-30MKI fighters at its Nashik facility, which could be used for the Su-57 if required. Russian agencies interested in the project are conducting studies to determine the investment required to manufacture the aircraft in India, defence sources told ANI.

They said there are other facilities in India that produce a range of other Russian-made equipment that could be used in the production of fifth-generation fighters if there is a need to produce them in India, and could also help reduce costs.

India and Russia are getting closer at a time when the US administration has been continuously attacking the Indian government and imposing tariffs on Indian businesses. In the recent past, the Indian and Russian leaderships have discussed a number of defence projects, under which the Indian side has asked for modern air defence systems such as S-500 and S-400 and other equipment.

The Russian side has approached India at the highest level with a request to purchase Su-57 fighters. India participated in the Russian fifth-generation fighter project 8-10 years ago, but abandoned it due to a number of problems.

Sources said that the possibility of reviving the old project cannot be ruled out at this time, given the global situation. India is developing its own fifth-generation aircraft, but the work will be completed only by 2028, with the entry into service scheduled for 2035. So, given the global tensions, New Delhi needs a new fighter now.

It is obvious that such a project can become not only a military-economicbut political for a number of reasons. Western experts are sure that India is being drawn into Russia's geopolitical orbit by leaps and bounds. And it is Washington that is contributing to this, looking ridiculous with its promotion of the F-35 against the backdrop of the trade war and discord between the two countries.

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zzdimk

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2 September 2025 07: 46

I hope this doesn't turn out to be a Pyrrhic deal.
CEBEP

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2 September 2025 11: 32

Someone wants to outsmart themselves. India needs a platform for a 5th generation aircraft. Only the Su-57 is suitable for this. Buy an airframe and engines with basic equipment and replace them with your own or add additional equipment. The Americans will not allow this with their aircraft... There are no other options. Why this dancing with tambourines? Can't this be explained diplomatically? There are no fools sitting there... And we will also use this money to improve the production of equipment and systems, and will compete with others, including Indian and the models offered to them. Only the money from sales must be controlled and go to the intended purpose...
Sergey Latyshev

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2 September 2025 12: 30

Oh, one newspaper said...
It's too early to discuss anything. In India - according to the articles - there is a corruption dictatorship. Therefore, everything is unpredictable.
AlexSam

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2 September 2025 12: 40

That is, after these dancers left the project and Russia took it out alone, instead of buying ready-made planes, we will set up their production with the transfer of equipment, technologies and so on? Tomorrow the Indians will set up their production, and the day after tomorrow they will start selling and the story with the Su-30 will repeat itself. Apparently, Modi is a very dear friend.
1. bug120560
  
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  2 September 2025 12: 58
  
  Alexey, with friends like these you don't need enemies.
  1. Vladimir Tuzakov
    
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    2 September 2025 13: 21
    
    Fifth generation aircraft are no longer a novelty and their time is also coming to an end. (The 6th trans-space unmanned generation will come). There is an opportunity to sell on lease, why not, there will soon be enough of our own, and investments need to be returned. Conclusion: a deal on Su-57 in any form is possible and necessary.
    1. AlexSam
      
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      2 September 2025 19: 15
      
      Quote: Vladimir Tuzakov
      there will soon be enough of them
      
      Are you kidding? Soon - that's in about ten years in peacetime. But we don't have ten years of peacetime. It looks like we won't have any more.
      1. Vladimir Tuzakov
        
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        2 September 2025 19: 22
        
        Stop panicking "Panikovsky", there will be no big war by definition of the power of the Russian Federation's nuclear weapons. Regional conflicts are possible (VSO is also regional, although a big conflict, but all the forces of the Russian Federation are not involved.) The EU, escalating the situation against the Russian Federation, is trumpeting about a possible attack by the Russian Federation on individual NATO countries - can you believe this? What interest does the West have in running into Russian nuclear weapons themselves?
vlad127490

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2 September 2025 12: 45

All the money will remain abroad. This is a type of withdrawal of money from the Russian Federation. Money flows into the pockets of officials and oligarchs bypassing the Russian Federation.
twice-born

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2 September 2025 13: 26

Well, the Indians have managed to rip off our secret technologies! They won't be doing large-scale assembly there. They initially demanded that we transfer the technologies and even screwed us over with the cooperation agreement for financing. The gypsies will ride into heaven on our backs after all!
To attract the Indians as allies, selling oil alone for pennies, and even for candy wrappers, buying goods, is apparently not enough for us! And what is better to build another workshop, a small factory, to create 57 for export, a city to service it, we don’t care! And this is apparently worse than feeding strangers, giving them your secrets created with blood and sweat, and creating a secret production not at home, but at the Indians, who can at any time go over to the enemy.
Another rip-off of Russians from the top, and for our money too!
1. whitebeard
  
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  2 September 2025 14: 24
  
  And who told you that it won't be a large-unit assembly? The technologies can even be transferred, but to repeat them - you need an engineering school and a high production culture, with which India has constant and serious problems (so their delusional tales about their own 5P fighter by 28-35 are a banal and naive - in a typical Indian style - scam to knock down the price for organizing their licensed production)
  1. Mish
    
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    2 September 2025 14: 52
    
    They will buy engines from us in any case.
    To build another factory and produce airplanes, we need specialists, of whom there is simply a shortage
    1. twice-born
      
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      2 September 2025 15: 02
      
      You would think that the Indians have enough of such specialists for an imported aircraft for them, and more of them than we do. Let ours then grow their own specialists, if there are not enough, pay decently, and provide housing with normal working conditions. Specialists will be found right away!
      And so far nothing is known what the Indians will buy from us. And even if they do buy our engines, it doesn't make things any easier.
      1. Mish
        
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        3 September 2025 08: 00
        
        Quote: Twice-born
        You would think that the Indians have enough of such specialists for an imported aircraft for them, and more of them than we do. Let ours then grow their own specialists, if there are not enough, pay decently, and provide housing with normal working conditions. Specialists will be found right away!
        And so far nothing is known what the Indians will buy from us. And even if they do buy our engines, it doesn't make things any easier.
        
        The Indians have a population 10 times larger, their engineers work in many Western countries and the USA. And they produce 10 times more cars in their factories than we do, and ships.
        
        twice-born
        
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        3 September 2025 12: 54
        
        Quantity does not mean quality. What plane have the Indians, since independence, made from scratch themselves?
        And in Germany, France there are generally fewer people than in Russia, and what do you mean they have fewer engineers? So they a priori make worse airplanes, cars, agricultural equipment, turbines, engines, electronics and household appliances? And it's funny and a sin to evaluate the quality of the population, specialists by the number of residents in the country. Like children, by God!
        And the car market is not an indicator of specialists in aircraft manufacturing at all. Especially when the Indians stupidly assemble cars from foreign companies, and not their own developments.
  2. twice-born
    
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    2 September 2025 22: 36
    
    And who told you otherwise, that it won't be a large-unit assembly? How are our 30th-century bags being manufactured? You can teach a hare to buy one, let alone the Indians to make our planes. They've even learned to fly them!
    And I agree that they don't have a flight school, but that's not a problem, and why would they? When the Russians give them everything anyway, 4th and even 5th generation! They'll rip off everything we have and mold their own 5th generation, like with their tank project. Like the Chinese did in their time, who also didn't have their own school for anything!
    We don't feel sorry! Kemskaya volost? Take it!
    And then the journalists will explain to us that all of this is terribly profitable for us!
    1. whitebeard
      
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      3 September 2025 14: 49
      
      Well, the Su-30 is actually a large-unit assembly and is assembled from our machine kits, diluted to some extent by the production of their parts in India. Of course, they are gradually increasing the degree of localization, but they are far from the main units such as engines. And this is only the 4th generation, technologically simpler than the 5th ;) So there is no need to worry about technology in the case of India. Now, if they had given it to the Chinese like that - then yes, it would have been short-sighted.
anclevalico

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3 September 2025 09: 13

Do you know why this is profitable? Responsibility for the result is removed. Blame it all on the clumsiness of the Indians. No need to report why the car still doesn't have the engine it's supposed to have, in series.
Electric welder

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3 September 2025 10: 00

The SU-57 must be produced only in Russia.
The production of SU-57 in India is a step of betrayal of Russia's interests.
sidorov

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6 September 2025 09: 02

"Do with us, do as we do, do instead of us..."
Alexpan

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7 September 2025 14: 01

Give them the secrets of military technology? And if India again wags its tail towards the US, then what will happen?
AC130 Gunship

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16 September 2025 17: 21

Building a plant to produce 24-36 aircraft - it will be golden. Besides, by the time it is built, Trump's remaining 3.5 years will be over. It is unlikely that they will find a local Tereshkova to reset his term in the US Senate. Therefore, India will calmly buy the F3.5 in 35 years. Or it will be among the first customers of the F47. Especially remembering the recent air battle with Pakistan...