MOSCOW, February 14 (AVN) - The Irkutsk aircraft plant will receive all foreign components for the first SU-30MKI fighter it is building for India in the first quarter of 2000, Sergei Tretyak, spokesman for the plant's Moscow office, said on Monday.
A fighter which fully matches India's demands can be build only by 2001, as it took the client very long to pick up suppliers of the plane's airborne equipment, Tretyak told the Military News Agency.
Under the contract, the plant is to supply the Indian Air Force with 50 fighters of the SU-30 family which are worth a total of USD2bn.