29 Aug 2013 11:28

UAC to deliver 65 new airplanes to Russian Defense Ministry in 2013 - Pogosyan

ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region. Aug 29 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian United Aircraft Corporation has successfully been implementing contracts on the delivery of combat airplanes to the country's Defense Ministry, UAC President Mikhail Pogosyan said.

"This year, we will supply 65 combat airplanes, as compared with 35 combat and training aircraft delivered the year before. The volume of deliveries in 2014 will be even larger than that in 2013," he told reporters on the sidelines of the MAKS-2013 international air show in the town of Zhukovsky outside Moscow on Thursday.