Sukhoi aircraft design and United Aircraft-building Corporation says that a prototype of the new Checkmate stealth jet will be flying by 2023 and hope to begin production in 2026. Thus, making it the second country after China to acquire the Su-35, the most advanced 4th generation jets in Russian inventory. Twelve Egyptian Air Force (EAF) Su-35s have been spotted in satellite imagery outside the Komsomolks-on-Amur plant ahead of delivery.Įgypt signed a $2 billion deal for the supply of around two dozen Russian Sukhoi Su-35 aircraft in March 2018, despite the threat of US sanctions, straining relations between Cairo and Washington. On the other hand, Egypt has taken delivery of all its MiG-29M/M2 fighter jets it ordered from Russia and has started receiving its two dozen Su-35 fighters.įive Su-35s were delivered to Egypt in 2020, from an order of 24 Su-35S fighters signed in 2018/19, with delivery to be completed by 2023. The MiG-29M is the most capable variant of its class, and is also operated by the Egyptian Air Force. The contract will see Algeria acquire additional 16 Su-30MKA and 14 MiG-29M/M2 fighters from Russia in a contract worth nearly $2 billion excluding weapons and training. Just last year, the Algerian Air Force began taking delivery of its first Russian-made MiG-29M/M2 multirole combat aircrafts in a deal which is expected to increase the size of the country’s combat fleet and replace legacy systems operated by the 193rd fighter squadron.Īlgeria ordered 14 MiG-29M/M2 jets at the MAKS 2019 air show, comprising of new single seat MiG-29M and dual seat MiG-29M2. Prior to the MAKS 2021 aviation show, Rostec began a weeks-long marketing campaign targeting India, Vietnam, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Īlthough in Africa, Algeria and Egypt are two of Russia’s major arms importers who would potentially be interested in the Checkmate.īoth countries have recently bought significant arms from Russia in the past few years. United Aircraft-building Corporation said that the Checkmate jet will have an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar able to engage six targets at once, “even under conditions of strong electronic interference,” and that the AESA will work cooperatively with the sensor and electronic warfare capabilities of the jet. OAK, in turn, is a subsidiary of the Rostec state-owned defense-industry conglomerate. The Checkmate is a fast, stealthy, high-flying, and light multi-role fighter with an impressively large payload for its class, designed by the Sukhoi aircraft design and production company, which is part of the United Aircraft-building Corporation (Obyedinyonnaya Aviastroitelnaya Korporatsiya-OAK).
The reduced cost of the Checkmate fighter jet is because Sukhoi is reusing some of the technologies previously developed for the Su-35S and Su-57, and also developing the aircraft with AI-assisted production methods. The competitive pricetag is a far better value proposition than the two nearest competitors, and superior to the French Dassault Rafale and Swedish JAS-39 Gripen.
F-35 Lightening II aircraft and Chinese Shenyang FC-31 – with an estimated cost of the new plane being between $25 million and $30 million, while an F-35 costs about $90 million for the conventional-takeoff F-35A model, and Shenyang FC-31 on the other hand costs around $70 million apiece. The Checkmate stealth jet is reported to be a direct competitor to the U.S. Yuri Borisov noted that there’s a market for 300 of the aircraft in Africa, India, and Vietnam. On the day of the unveiling of the Checkmate jet, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters that “firstly, the aircraft will be oriented toward African countries, India, and Vietnam.” There’s a market for 300 of the aircraft in Africa, India, and Vietnam “Moreover, the aircraft has an open architecture and can be assembled in several configurations, configured in accordance with the desires of the customer. “The machine can perform a wide range of tasks and is not whimsical in maintenance,” the spokesman added.
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