Sukhoi plans to supply 30-odd combat aircraft this year and sell more than $1.5 billion worth of its products, said Mikhail Pogosyan, the company’s general director. He added that various models of the Su-30 aircraft will be delivered to Malaysia, Algeria and Venezuela. In addition, aircraft component packages will be supplied for ongoing licensed production of Su-30MKI fighters in India.
These figures are a big improvement on 2006. “The company’s performance last year was not representative. We supplied only four aircraft to Venezuela and provided after-sale servicing of aircraft to the tune of over $200 million. The company’s total exports amounted to some $800 million instead of the normal $1.5 billion,” Pogosyan said. At the same time, Sukhoi completed the design for the fifth-generation fighter and manufactured an engineering prototype of the Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) aircraft for static trials.