The Russian Air Force received a total of 43 warcraft in the past year, according to local papers.
TASS, citing a source close to the Russian Defence Ministry, revealed that the list included:
- 16 Su-34s, an all-weather supersonic fighter-bomber;
- 10 Su-35s, a new version of the super-maneuverable Su-27 fighters;
- 17 Su-30SMs, a variant of the Su-30MKI produced by Irkut Corp with upgrades in radar, communications, friend-or-foe identification, ejection seats, etc.
It also received six Yak-130s advanced jet trainers, which observers say they can be swiftly converted into light-attack and reconnaissance aircraft, plus a number of An-148 transport jets and modernized Il-76 strategic airlifters, according to the Moscow-based research institute Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade.
All up, the Russian Air Force – which maintains a fleet of over 4,000 aircraft, second only to the United States – got a further 57 fighters and jets.
Over the past decade, the Russian Air Force has received more than 500 planes and jets. To put things in perspective, that figure equals to the entire fleet of a medium-sized air force, like that of Spain or Australia.
China and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force never reveal changes to the size of its fleet, but the China-based military website Northern Defence said the force may have received around 100 aircraft in 2017.
But that does not mean the PLAAF is set to surpass its Russian counterpart in fleet size or conventional air combat capabilities.
Chinese experts have urged people to be rational when gauging the gap between the two forces, noting that the PLAAF still procures Su-35s, Su-30SMs, as well as the “fourth++ generation” jet fighter MiG-35s that just rolled off the assembly line by Russian warplane maker Mikoyan.
The Russian defense industry has been scraping by with tepid orders from home and abroad. Mikoyan, Sukhoi and other contractors only manufactured some 80 warplanes – but they have the capacity to build about 130 planes a year.
The good news for Moscow is that domestic and overseas orders for MiG-35s and other new and modernized models are gradually increasing for this year and beyond.
But their Chinese counterparts like Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corp, Shenyang Aircraft Corp and Chengdu Aerospace Corp, maker of the PLA’s fifth-generation super-fighter J-20, have limited capacities and have long been stretched by Beijing, which wants them to churn out more fighters and bombers.
There have been rumors that the Chengdu plant is lagging behind schedule in assembling J-20s since the fighter was officially deployed earlier last year.
More missions and flyovers also mean quicker wear and tear: the maintenance demand for squadrons of fighters, bombers and spy planes following the PLA’s bulked up blue-sea patrolling and stunts such as circumnavigating Taiwan also put pressure on the nation’s defense industry.
nice.
Raz Putin yes yes the US will defend some backward poor messed up Third World country like yourself with no oil … Keep hoping along your other dream of marrying a orincess with you being the prince
Melvin Quioyo
What have your country produced so far ? Lots of OFW because your country is so badly run? Still dare to laugh at othets when your front and backyards are in a mess ? Parents never thought you shame ?
Daniel Heng building an aircraft carrier is one thing. Making it work is another.
Sonny Bardin .. we do bad deeds. while u selected mr.trump as ur president.
n support bad asses. u do bad deeds in other countries.. u played a brutal role in iraq libya syria yeman…
n shameful role in PHALISTINE.
SHAMELESS PEOPLES N MORELESS NATIONS
Mohamed Naffas We use bad language but you do bad deeds.
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/patch.com/connecticut/manchester/amp/26842847/prosecutors-release-details-chinese-nationals-plea-stealing-sensitive
Made in China? hmmmmm/…lol
Anywhichway you see the wheel as being reinvented is fine with us.
Truth: a wheel is a wheel, you just can’t reinvent a wheel. Similarly, a sh*thole, as the Donald puts it, is a sh*thole. You just can’t reinvent the a sh*thole.
However, you can refine the wheel, the sh*thoke even, but, it takes smarts and it take a creative mind to refine both. I mean you try and reinvent the wheel. I dare you.
The theorem which make the world turn round and round is like this: After the war, America and Russia 『grabbed』 all of Nazi Germany’s wheels they can get tgeir hands on, they took it home and they refined it.
1) The MiG-15 and F-84 Thunderstreak series of fighter resulted
2) From there, the MiG-19/21, supersonic, shattered America’s confidence.
3) The F-100, F-101/104 generation of fighters resulted. Still Nazi technology.
4) America thumped its chest with the F-4/F-111 series of advance fighters
5) Russia got hold of swept wing blue prints, came up with the MiG-23/27 and 25
6) Shocked by the Japanese MiG-25, America stripped it, F-14/15/18 follows
7) Kremlin gotten hold of F-14/15 blueprints, MiG-29/Flankers resulted
In other word, each and every of those aircrafts are a clone of another so nothing wrong with refining the wheel so again, i dare you to try and reivent the wheel…
The USA See’s itself as the police of the world and as a result tries to justify it’s lawlessness and that of Israel with subjecting smaller countries to do what it (USA) bids them but I think the North Korean regime understand the folly of attacking the USA
Nature in the form of hurricanes and tornadoes and tsunamis will deliver the death blow to Uncle Sam
That country will be destroyed from the inside out
Never under estimated the Chinese. They can built an aircraft carrier in just 1.5 years
Paul Miller you western people know only to use filthy words, in near future the all supper powers will destroyed by mother natures for example now days all the America is freezing
Somak Das you mean India is sure of their products like nano Lol..
Human kills human, no need to have alien attack ! You understand ?
u don’t feel shame.. on ur abusuvi n slung language… where r ur guts n manners… u have no morality in reality
Noel Mullings
So true. See all the Muslim countries without nuclear arms. How US have literally made them rubble. But US will have to think twice before attacking Pakistan
There are 2 kids here fighting who has the bigger lollipop..the other one wants to hide from his bigger brother haha.
All of you imagine in the 2nd World War. It is now 2018 China actually use the short & medium range missiles to finish all the planes within minutes before coming near the coast.
Ready for an Alien atack???.
Melvin Quioyo
Do you understand the stragedy of buying, manufacturing & developing at the same Tim ?