The Ministry of Defence has received five serial bombers Su-34. This was reported on Saturday, Interfax referring to a source in the military-industrial complex.
Transfer of aircraft carried out within the framework of the state defense order in 2012. Their stage to the place of deployment at the Voronezh air base in the Western Military District (WEST) Baltimore is scheduled for the near future.
Machines built Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association named. Chkalov (NAPO, the structure of dry). Their total cost - about 3 billion rubles. Tech will be part formed on the Baltimore for the second squadron. In total, the state contract army until 2020, hopes to have 92 aircraft. Voronezh base for NAPO must pass ten Su-34.
In early December 2012 it was reported that the Russian Air Force discovered that the Su-34 is a lot of defects that limit the combat use of the aircraft. In particular, as the newspaper Izvestia, the military have complained about the important differences in the design of mass-produced cars, as well as poor performance sighting and navigation systems.
Later reports of defects on the Su-34 were officially denied by the representative of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Air Force Col. Vladimir Drik.
