UAC Plant Gets New Testing Facilities to Help Increase Production of Su-57 Jets

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is setting up new facilities to test systems and equipment of the Su-57 stealth jet, to ramp up production of the aircraft.

The government-owned Rostec said the expansion of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (KnAAZ) involves the construction of a number of new facilities - a boathouse for testing on-board radio-electronic equipment, a fuel box and a motor test station. Their construction is carried out at the expense of UAC.

“The UAC is fulfilling a large state contract - in the coming years, the Ministry of Defense needs to supply 76 Su-57 fighters. In order to produce the required number of aircraft with high quality and on time, we have begun to expand and modernize production facilities. Already in the second half of 2023, the new facilities of the KnAAZ flight test station should receive the first aircraft,” said Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec State Corporation.

As part of the program to increase the serial production of fifth-generation fighters, KnAAZ will also reconstruct capacities and expand production. These works will be implemented with funds from the federal budget.

“With the support of the state on the territory of KnAAZ them. Yu.A. Gagarin, a new building of the flight test station for the Su-57 will be built, the third stage of electroplating production, a major reconstruction of capacities for machining and heat treatment will begin,” said the director of the branch of PJSC UAC - KnAAZ im. Yu.A. Gagarina Alexander Pekarsh.