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RUSSIA NAMED WORLD'S TOP EXPORTER OF MULTIROLE FIGHTER JETS: REPORT
August 27, 2013 - 16:23 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia is now the world's leading exporter of new
multirole fighter jets, a Moscow-based research center said Tuesday,
August 27, according to RIA Novosti.
Russia's Center for the Analysis of the Global Arms Trade said,
when calculated in volume terms, Russia was the market-leader for the
supply of multirole fighter jets for 2009-2012, according to figures
from Russia's arms exporter Rosoboronexport.
In that four-year period, Russia supplied 224 new jets valued at about
$9 billion, the center said in a statement on its website Tuesday.
However, the center noted Russia cedes its market-leading position
to the US if combat aircraft sales in that period are calculated in
terms of value, not volume.
Russia has enjoyed most of its combat aircraft sales success in Asia
in the last decade, winning orders from India, China, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Vietnam, but has also broken into the South American
market with a deal to sell Su-30 fighters to Venezuela. Most of the
aircraft ordered have been Sukhoi Su-27 and Su-30 series jets, but
some MiG-29 fighters and Yak-130 combat trainers have also been sold,
according to Rosoboronexport.
The center said it expects Russia to maintain its leading position
through 2016, based on predicted sales that include a potential deal
with China for 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighters (South China Morning Post
reported a preliminary deal signed in December 2012), a new contract
with Vietnam for 12 Su-30MK2s inked last week, and a possible deal
with Syria for 24 MiG-29M/M2s.
The current situation in Syria, where a civil war has been raging
for two years and over which now hangs the specter of international
intervention, could impact this last deal, the center conceded.
Looking at the period to 2016, counting both deliveries that have taken
place and those that are expected, the center predicts that Russia will
retain its leading position thanks to manufacturers Sukhoi and Irkut
(operating now under one holding company) - ahead of America's Lockheed
Martin, China's Chengdu Aircraft Company, and America's Boeing.
August 27, 2013 - 16:23 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia is now the world's leading exporter of new
multirole fighter jets, a Moscow-based research center said Tuesday,
August 27, according to RIA Novosti.
Russia's Center for the Analysis of the Global Arms Trade said,
when calculated in volume terms, Russia was the market-leader for the
supply of multirole fighter jets for 2009-2012, according to figures
from Russia's arms exporter Rosoboronexport.
In that four-year period, Russia supplied 224 new jets valued at about
$9 billion, the center said in a statement on its website Tuesday.
However, the center noted Russia cedes its market-leading position
to the US if combat aircraft sales in that period are calculated in
terms of value, not volume.
Russia has enjoyed most of its combat aircraft sales success in Asia
in the last decade, winning orders from India, China, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Vietnam, but has also broken into the South American
market with a deal to sell Su-30 fighters to Venezuela. Most of the
aircraft ordered have been Sukhoi Su-27 and Su-30 series jets, but
some MiG-29 fighters and Yak-130 combat trainers have also been sold,
according to Rosoboronexport.
The center said it expects Russia to maintain its leading position
through 2016, based on predicted sales that include a potential deal
with China for 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighters (South China Morning Post
reported a preliminary deal signed in December 2012), a new contract
with Vietnam for 12 Su-30MK2s inked last week, and a possible deal
with Syria for 24 MiG-29M/M2s.
The current situation in Syria, where a civil war has been raging
for two years and over which now hangs the specter of international
intervention, could impact this last deal, the center conceded.
Looking at the period to 2016, counting both deliveries that have taken
place and those that are expected, the center predicts that Russia will
retain its leading position thanks to manufacturers Sukhoi and Irkut
(operating now under one holding company) - ahead of America's Lockheed
Martin, China's Chengdu Aircraft Company, and America's Boeing.