As a successor to the Su-27 fighter, today's Su-35 also plays an important role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Russia has repeatedly used Su-35 multi-role fighters to launch strikes against Ukraine, and the main task of the Su-35 is currently locked in air supremacy, and according to the news disclosed by Russian media recently, the second batch of Su-35 multi-role fighters in 2024 has been delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces. After the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia has suffered a lot of fighter losses, so Russia has also significantly accelerated the production of multi-type fighters, including the Su-35, and the current Gagarin aircraft factory in Komsomolsk, Russia, is completing the production of Su-35 multi-role fighters at full firepower, although the Russian government has come up with its own maximum production speed, but it seems that Russia is still not comparable to China in the manufacturing speed of fourth-generation aircraft.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the production and manufacturing capacity of Russian fighters has declined significantly, and Russia needs to complete the manufacture of Su-35, Su-30 and other multi-type fighters as soon as possible, in order to make up for the losses on the front line, of course, there are many old Su-27 fighters in the Russian army's combat sequence, these fighters have not even completed the minimum modernization and upgrading, not that Russia is unwilling to upgrade them, but because Russia simply does not have the ability and funds to complete the upgrade of these fighters.
The Su-35 multi-role fighter is also very likely to have an air confrontation with the F-16 fighter in the future, because there are constantly voices appearing, Ukraine will get F-16 fighters from Western countries, once the Su-35 and F-16 fighters have an air confrontation, then it can also directly show the real strength of the Su-35 multi-role fighter. Judging from the current evaluation of the Su-35 on the Internet, polarization is very serious, on the one hand, it is believed that the Su-35 multi-role fighter has excellent performance and is in line with the fourth-generation fighter mentioned in Russia's mouth, while on the other hand, it is believed that the Su-35 is not only very bad in the export process of overseas countries, on the other hand, it also reflects the very limited level of modernization in the actual combat process.
Su-35 multi-role fighter is constantly seeking to export to overseas countries, including Indonesia, Egypt and Iran, although there are rumors that Iran is about to obtain Su-35 multi-role fighter, but the first Su-35 has not appeared in Iran today, Indonesia signed a contract with Russia many years ago, but to this day such a contract has not been completed, so it is very unsmooth when the Su-35 multi-role fighter is exported to overseas countries.
Although the main task of the Su-35 multi-role fighter is to carry out air supremacy operations, and it has also launched strikes on ground targets many times in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and at the critical moment of the batch delivery of the Su-35, the United States and Germany have stated that they will provide Ukraine with more Seahorse high mobility rocket artillery. The United States pointed out that it will sell three sets of Hippocampus high mobility rocket launchers to Ukraine in the future, and Germany will provide three sets of Hippocampus to Ukraine in the form of military aid, and the war research believes that with the continuous emergence of Hippocampus high mobility rocket launchers on the battlefield in Ukraine, the Russian army can also use air strikes to deal with these rocket artillery. Text/Iris