KUBINKA. Sept 6 (Interfax) - Brand new Mikoyan MiG-35 fighter jets will be supplied to the Russian Defense Ministry before the end of this year for testing; the planes are ready, MiG Aircraft Corporation General Director Sergei Korotkov told Interfax.
"Two Mikoyan MiG-35 planes will be supplied to the Defense Ministry before the end of this year. The planes are ready, and test flights will begin in November. Organizational matters have yet to be addressed," Korotkov said, adding that the tests would be conducted by the military.
Korotkov told the press about the MiG-35 jets at the FIDAE aerospace show in Chile in March 2016. "The planes are in a general assembly workshop; they will be assembled shortly. We will begin test flights of the planes this year in order to confirm their technical characteristics as requested by the Defense Ministry for a mass production and delivery contract," he said.
Two MiG-35 jets will participate in test flights, he said then.
The MiG-35 is a multirole aircraft operating at the air-to-air, air-to-surface and air-to-ship levels. The plane's radio-electronic systems allow for use of all types of aircraft weapons. The fighter belongs to generation 4++; this is an interim stage between the fourth and fifth generations.