Coinciding with the company’s 90th anniversary, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, or OAK in Russian) held a groundbreaking ceremony for new facilities that it hopes will enable it to increase the production rate of the Sukhoi Su-57, Russia’s fifth-generation fighter.
The new facilities were built at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation plant. The fuel system development buildings were put into operation and the first phase of construction of a building shed for the development of on-board electronic equipment was completed to increase serial production of the Russian Air Force’s most advanced aircraft.
“The technical re-equipment and expansion of production facilities at the Komsomolsk plant is a multi-year investment program involving a large amount of government funding and investment of the corporation’s own funds. In this way, we have created the most advanced and large-scale high-tech production facility for the manufacture of the most advanced aircraft systems,” said Yury Slyusar, CEO of UAC, and vice-president of the Russian Union of Aircraft Manufacturers.
Further development of production is planned. In particular, a hangar for system development and ground testing of the Su-57 will be put into operation.
“Our task is to put this building into operation as soon as possible, since in the next phase it is planned to rebuild the existing aircraft systems development hangar. The expansion of the company’s facilities is also planned. With the support of the state, the third stage of galvanic production will be built at KnAAZ and a major reconstruction of other enterprise facilities will begin,” said Alexander Pekarsh, director of the UAC – Yuri Gagarin KnAAZ branch.
The new industrial facilities in Komsomolsk Amur will make the process of producing the required number of aircraft ordered by the Russian Defense Ministry more technologically advanced and efficient, Pekarsh said.
