Aircraft maker Irkut delivered the first two Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter aircraft to the Russian Air Force on Thursday, the company said.

Flight testing of the multirole fighter jet began around two months ago, following the first flight of the Su-30SM on September 21, Irkut said.

“It is significant that the aircraft is in series production, and will enter air force service not in ones and twos but in squadrons,” said Maj. Gen. Alexander Karchevsky, commander of the air force’s Gagarin and Zhukovsky training academy, who was present at the handover.

Source and photo: Irkut