Algeria will purchase 14 Su-57, 14 Su-34, and 14 Su-35. The total contract value of SU-57 is 2 billion U.S. dollars, and the unit price is 143 million. However, Russia needs to help Algeria train SU-57 pilots and provide corresponding maintenance equipment and spare parts, because SU-57 is still in the stage of small batch trial production, and the output is small. The delivered SU-57 needs to be given priority to the Russian Air Force, so Algeria will not get its first aircraft until 2025. Why does the export of
SU-57 squeeze the market share of FC-31? Arms sales are never purely cost-effective.
Looking at the world, the F-35A/B of the United States is the best-selling fifth-generation stealth fighter in the world. All countries that have friendly relations with the United States will not be stingy in exporting F-35s to them. Fighters, but F-35 fighters are also the reins for the United States to restrict these countries. Turkey has stopped the delivery of F-35 fighters by the United States because of the purchase of the S-400 air defense system. Z1z
has poor relations with the United States or even hostile countries. Naturally, it is impossible to obtain American F-35 fighter jets and friendly relations with the United States. However, countries with their own strategic considerations will try their best to purchase multinational fighters to spread strategic risks.
So, there are at least one billion US dollars in military expenditures, and the relationship with the United States is not good, and how many countries are equipped with Chinese/Russian aircraft?
Maybe the SU-57 fighter has poor stealth performance, but how many of the small countries buy aircraft for performance? The important consideration for these small countries' military purchases is strategic security! The additional political factors of foreign arms sales will indeed shut out non-aligned countries, but without involving their own strategic security, how many small parliaments feel they are too safe? The same is about spending money. One money is spent on nothing but equipment, and the other money is spent on the strategic security of a large country at that time. If you were a small country that could be killed by the United States at any time, who would you buy?
What's more, all countries have a logistics system. For logistics, IWC weapons and equipment can be called a nightmare. Therefore, in order to simplify logistics, all countries will reduce the number of target countries for military procurement as much as possible. The American department is mainly based on the Russian department.
During the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was flourishing at the time, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Iran, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, the Baltic countries, Vietnam, India and other countries had a basket of arms sales agreements with the Soviet Union. . The MIG-21 series, the MIG-23 family, and even the triple-sonic monster MIG-25 have sold a lot. In order to survive the Russian military system after the end of the Cold War, SU-27 and MIG-29 were even more open for sale! What is the result of this arms sales?
All countries that have a wrong relationship with the United States have many Soviet-made military aircraft in their hands, and even the United States has many Soviet-made military aircraft in their hands! So which country is the weapon and equipment of these countries' first choice when the air force is upgraded? Who else but Russia?
SU-57 may be slightly inferior in stealth ability, but it is not much worse than F-35! Moreover, most of the imaginary enemies of these small countries are equipped with third-generation aircraft (old American standard). Therefore, the SU-57 can form an asymmetric advantage. In addition, the Soviet aircraft’s long legs can throw iron bombs when they hang more. Many, Russian-made military aircraft have relatively low maintenance requirements, so why not buy SU-57?
FC-31 Why is every road obstructed and long?
FC-31 wanted to turn positive, but the air force only wanted J-20, but the navy only wanted a large flat panel of 80,000 tons or more. It needed J-20, and wanted to export and then reproduce J. -7 success? But what is the reason for the success of J-7 export? The
MIG-21 fighter has experienced actual combat tests and proved that the MIG-21 is a reliable aircraft, but the SuThe coalition's foreign arms sales are often tied to politics, so countries that want to obtain MIG-21 but don't want to have too much involvement with the Soviet Union can only buy J-7! In addition, the J-7 is really cheap, so the sales of J-7 fighters are good.
However, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, either the Iraqi Yugoslavians and the like were killed by the United States, or the Germans and Polands were thrown into the arms of the United States and retired all Soviet-made weapons, or they were caught in the sanctions of the United States. Do you have no money to renew your own air force, or you have a poor relationship with our country... If you don't fight, it's not bad, and you want to sell the fighters? Dreaming?
Russia does not have this problem. Russia has good relations with India and Vietnam, so both countries have the idea of buying SU-57. Syria was destroyed by the war, but once the Syrian economy is restored, the Russian-made fighter jets will be Syrian Preferred.
means that the country that regards FC-31 as the first choice for procurement needs to meet the following conditions at the same time: long-term equipment of Chinese/Soviet fighters, poor relations with the United States and Russia, wealth in hand, friendly relations with China, and sufficient The country with the above-mentioned conditions is also the minibus...Of course, there are big Middle Eastern dog owners who want to make a good relationship with the green dollar bills...
The problem is that if the minibus is purchased, it is mostly the big money and transfer. The production line... can also earn money for maintenance costs and supporting equipment.
Summary
For the FC-31 Falcon, time is really running out! The F-35 is positioned as the main attack ground + limited air defense. The SU-57 is positioned as a traditional air superior fighter, but with its tonnage advantage, it can also hang a lot of iron bombs to lick the ground.
For small countries, it is best for fighter jets to be capable of both air combat and bombing. The problem is that the size of FC-31 is F-35 level. Air combat capability is better than F-35, but it is definitely not as good as F-35. , After all, FC-31 is not fatter than F-35. In air combat, it is certainly not as fat as SU-57, because for stealth fighters, no combat bomb bay means low air superiority! Moreover, the legs are shorter than SU-57, and there is no extra bonus point that SU-57 can share the logistics system with SU-27 series aircraft. You can't always hope for an effect using SU-57+FC-31 for high and low matching, right? Even with this money and this idea, the data link does not agree...
Therefore, FC-31 must hurry up, and it will be too late if you don't hurry up!
