How about a reported 24 Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jets, and four submarines from Russia.
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Venezuela's only hope would be a quick air strike, using recently acquired Russian Sukhoi jets.
"We're just hoping our aircraft will be better, " said Sergey Sergeev, deputy director general of Sukhoi.
In June the defence minister flew on board a Russian-built supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
By that time, however, the regime had decided to buy from EADS and Sukhoi of Russia.
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Sukhoi, or some of its subcontractors for avionics and other components, almost surely trades on an exchange.
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This includes dozens of helicopters, 100, 000 Kalashnikov rifles and 24 Sukhoi-30 fighter-bombers among the world's most sophisticated combat aircraft.
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Lovell has logged more than 3, 000 hours in Sukhoi and Pitts aerobatic planes.
This month, official talks trimmed the order down to 24 planes from an initial discussion of 48 Sukhoi Super Flankers.
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Last year, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 slammed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.
The Sukhoi SU-35 is a single seat super maneuverable, acrobatic fighter plane.
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It has purchased 300 to 400 Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and Su-30 fighter-bombers, plus Russian A-50 AWACS and anti-air and ground attack missiles.
For starters, Russia signed a long awaited deal with the Chinese military to sell 24 Sukhoi SU-35 multirole fighter planes and four electric-diesel submarines.
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Both sides agreed to two arms-sale contracts in which China will buy Russian Sukhoi made fighter jets, Xinhua and Agence France Press reported on Monday.
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He singled airplane manufacturer Sukhoi Company, saying Russian made aircraft should be competitive with their foreign rivals in terms of engine noise, fuel economy and flight distance.
That prompted Mikhail Pogosyan, who heads Sukhoi and the company that makes MiGs, to suggest that the Kremlin stop selling China the Russian engines for the JF-17.
Venezuela's recently acquired Russian Sukhoi-30 fighter-jets were put on alert.
Alexey Fedorov, the boss of Irkut, the subsidiary making the MC-21, says eventually it and the Superjet, made by Sukhoi, will evolve into a family of planes with common technology, but this will take time.
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Sukhoi is betting that China will have to buy the Su-33 on Russian terms as Beijing will struggle to develop its own carrier-based fighter in time for the planned launch of its first carriers in 2011 or 2012.
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