The Su-57 fighter aircraft pictured at Aero India 2025. (Janes/Amit Kalra)
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and Rosoboronexport – the country's defence export agency – have proposed to offer to India the Sukhoi Su-57 multirole fighter aircraft.
UAC and Rosoboronexport announced the plan on 11 February in a press conference at Aero India 2025 in Bangalore. Officials said the plan would be framed by local production in India.
Indian officials have not commented on the proposal. However, UAC and Rosoboronexport officials said that if such a deal is approved, India's state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) could start building the aircraft in 2025.
A Rosoboronexport media representative said the agency proposes to support the deal through technology transfers to India that could benefit New Delhi's developmental Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme.
Such technologies, he said, could include aero-engines, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars, optics, artificial intelligence (AI), software, communications, and weapons development.
The representative added that local Su-57 production, supported by transferred technologies, would also support any future Indian requirement to upgrade the Su-57 and would enable India to design and develop new aircraft platforms as well as key systems, including aero-engines.
Rosoboronexport has been promoting the Su-57 for exports to support Russia's defence aviation industry in the wake of international sanctions. Algeria is reportedly the first export customer of the aircraft.
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