Interfax-AVN military news agency, The Moscow-based Salyut engineering production enterprise has signed a 900m-dollar contract on delivering about 250 aircraft engines to China in the next six years.
The Salyut press-service told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday [15 December] that the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental commission on military technical cooperation had recently completed a meeting in Beijing. “For instance, it has coordinated final details of the 900m-dollar contract on delivering 250 AL-31FN aircraft engines, produced by Salyut, to be mounted on the Chinese J-10 light fighter in the next six year,” a press-service official said.
The J-10 is a Chinese version of the Israeli Lavi fighter, launched into mass production in 2002.
According to Salyut Director General Yuriy Yeliseyev, in addition to signing the contract on delivering engines for J-10 fighters, the Chinese side has also expressed its interest in procuring upgraded AL-31F engines, manufactured by Salyut for Su-family fighters, for a total of 1.2-1.4bn dollars. The future cooperation is expected to last for the next six years, the press service official said.
