The next International Military-Technical Forum Army-2023 will be held from August 14 to 20 in the Patriot Exhibition and Convention Center near Moscow and at the Kubinka airfield. In the immediate vicinity of the main entrance to the exhibition pavilions in Patriot Park, the United Aircraft Corporation is demonstrating the MiG-35 aircraft, which UAC says will be the main event of this year’s Army.
“At Patriot, this time the MiG-35 fighter is being demonstrated “live” for the first time. So far, only helicopters have been shown here from full-scale manned aviation equipment, and from airplanes – only non-flying and museum specimens,” the editorial board of Vzlet magazine pointed out.
The first two MiG-35 prototypes adapted to the requirements of the Russian Ministry of Defense – the single-seat MiG-35S and the two-seat MiG-35UB – were produced in late 2016, the first flight was performed in January 2017. At the Army-2018 forum a contract was signed for the construction of the first batch of six serial fighters of this type, the delivery of which to the customer began in 2019. The delivery of all six aircraft is to be completed by Lukhovitsky Voronin name Aircraft Plant in 2023.
“At the three previous Army forums in 2020, 2021 and 2022, fighters from this batch could be seen in the static exposition of the Russian Air Force at the Kubinka airfield, but now one of them is also shown at Patriot,” the Vzlet editorial office noted.
At the Kubinka airfield within the framework of the static exposition UAC shows part of the model range of serially produced and modernized aircraft, including the Yak-130 combat trainer aircraft in the new UAC Yakovlev corporate livery.
In the Demo Center, the corporation presents a multimedia exposition and a line of combat, transport, strategic and special aviation aircraft in the form of models of Su-34, Su-35, Su-57, Su-30SM, Yak-130, Yak-152, Il-78MK-90A, Il-76MD-90A, Il-112V, Tu-160, Tu-22M3, Tu-95MS, MiG-31, MiG-35, MiG-29K and Be-200.
