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Monday, June 19, 2006

Russia To Deliver 12 Fighter Jets to India

Russia’s Irkut jet maker is planning to deliver 12 Su-30MKI fighter jets to India this year and will start supplying Algeria and Malaysia from 2007 as production at the plant ramps up, the company’s director said in an interview on June 15.

"The contract has already been agreed, its signature is expected in the next few months, and this year we plan to deliver 12 fighter jets" to India, Oleg Demchenko, director of the plant in Russia’s Siberian region of Irkutsk told the Vedomosti business daily.

"In the first quarter of this year, five unassembled jets have already been delivered" to India, Demchenko said.

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