US military media "Defense News" pointed out that due to the performance in the Ukrainian-Russian war, which was not as ideal as claimed, and the production line was tight due to the economic sanctions against , Russia's advanced fighter jets such as Su-35, Su-75 and Su-57 will be greatly affected, and exports are expected to plummet next year.
Before the outbreak of the Ukrainian-Ukraine War, United Airlines Manufacturing Corporation (UAC) originally planned to export its latest Su-57 Felon and the Su-75 Checkmate and other fifth-generation fighter jets , which were just launched last year.
However, these two fighter jets have seriously affected production due to the supply chain impact caused by the epidemic and US economic sanctions in recent years. Now, in the Ukrainian-Russian war, the performance of the Chinese and Russian arms in the Ukrainian War is obviously not as good as those of European and American products, so even the export volume of the current main sales model Su-35 will be affected.
On the eve of the war, the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia first, which has successfully affected the transaction case of Russia selling Su-35 to Indonesian , Egypt and Algeria . After the war broke out, Moscow , which was sanctioned by global economic , will be more difficult to maintain the production line of high-tech fighter jets.
In addition, many Russian weapons shot down during the war were dismantled and found that many American chips and components were built in, allowing the US sanctions strategy to fill in many loopholes that Russia could have previously exploited. Russia will find it more difficult than before to obtain advanced chips through the third channel.
In addition, the huge war losses caused by high-intensity war also made Moscow urgently want to replenish its insufficient military equipment. Therefore, under the triple blows of production reduction, war loss consumption and poor performance, not only foreign buyers gradually lost interest in Russian-made fighter jets, but Russia also could not provide enough production capacity to deliver.
Therefore, "Defense News" pointed out that the export volume of Russian fighter jets will plummet next year, which will cause another major blow to the Russian economy, which relies on oil and arms exports.
(First image source: Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
