“It is planned to deliver 16 new aircraft by the end of the year,” he said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
It is noted that at the moment more than 50 aircraft engines have been repaired and delivered to military units.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that two strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS performed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Bering, Chukchi and Okhotsk seas.