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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Su-35 makes demonstration flight, Russia to buy 70 more Su-34’s till 2015

Russia’s new Su-35 Flanker multirole fighter aircraft completed its first demonstration flight on Monday. In six-minute flight, it performed a number of maneuvers. Chief of Air Force Colonel General Alexander Zelin attended the event. The Su-35 prototype made its maiden flight on February 18.

“We have a large number of orders for this aircraft. Deliveries will be made both for the Russian Air Force and foreign clients… We will start deliveries in 2011,” Chief of Sukhoi, Mikhail Pogosyan said.

“We plan to train two to three regiments to fly the Su-35 aircraft,” Russia’s Air Force commander Alexander Zelin said.

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