{"id":646829,"date":"2020-02-19T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646829"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:24:06","slug":"russia-to-sign-contract-for-several-dozen-upgraded-su-34-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646829","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Sign Contract for Several Dozen Upgraded Su-34 Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"115\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Su-34-Bomber-aircraft-russian-air-forcejpg-190x115.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry plans to sign a new contract in the summer for the delivery of several dozen Sukhoi Su-34 frontline bombers to the Aerospace Force with their combat capabilities expanded under the Sych experimental design work, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Defense Ministry plans to sign a contract with the Sukhoi Company this summer for the delivery of several dozen Su-34 planes to the troops with expanded combat capabilities. The aircraft will integrate the latest avionics suite developed under the Sych experimental design work,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sych experimental design work was completed in 2019 and, in particular, \u201cit envisages installing underslung reconnaissance containers on Su-34s,\u201d the source specified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, the range of air-launched weapons, which the Su-34 will be able to employ, increases significantly in the process of this work,\u201d the source said.<br \/>\nadvertisement<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, there are plans to upgrade operational Su-34 planes,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>TASS has no official confirmation of this information provided by the source.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74103\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Su-34-Multirole-Bomber-aircraft-russian-air-force-web.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74103\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Su-34-Multirole-Bomber-aircraft-russian-air-force-web-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sukhoi Su-34 is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber\/strike aircraft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Su-34 multirole supersonic fighter-bomber is designated to strike both ground-based and air targets day and night in any weather conditions. As its basic armament, the plane carries air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles. The Su-34 has an operating range of 4,000 km, can develop a maximum speed of up to 1,900 km\/h and carry a combat payload of up to 8 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>The first contract for the delivery of 32 Su-34 planes to the Defense Ministry was signed in 2008. Currently, the Novosibirsk Aviation Enterprise (a branch of the Sukhoi Aircraft Company) is completing the production of Su-34 bombers under the contract signed with the Defense Ministry in 2012 for the delivery of 92 planes to the troops.<\/p>\n<p>Today Russia\u2019s Aerospace Force operates from 110 to 130 Su-34 frontline bombers, according to various estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/russia-to-sign-contract-for-several-dozen-upgraded-su-34-bombers-74100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Russia to Sign Contract for Several Dozen Upgraded Su-34 Bombers<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry plans to sign a new contract in the summer for the delivery of several dozen Sukhoi Su-34 frontline bombers to the Aerospace Force with their combat capabilities&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646830,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/646830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}