{"id":21131770,"date":"2026-09-08T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/su-34-production-russia-212-built-losses-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:56:55","slug":"su-34-production-russia-212-built-losses-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/su-34-production-russia-212-built-losses-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Su-34 Production: Russia Has Built 212, Lost at Least 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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Bare factory grey primer, straight out of the shop next door.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is a mundane picture that answers a question people have been asking for four years: is Russia still building these things? It is. The interesting question is whether it is building them fast enough.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The arithmetic says no, and has said no for most of the war.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Total built<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">212 Su-34s received by the start of 2026, including 7 prototype and pre-production aircraft<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Recent output<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">16 production aircraft in 2024, 18 in 2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Confirmed losses<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">43 destroyed since February 2022, per Oryx visual confirmation<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Novosibirsk Aviation Plant (NAZ\/NAPO), the sole builder, part of United Aircraft Corporation<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>NATO name<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Fullback<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Configuration<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Twin-engine, two-seat side-by-side fighter-bomber, replaced the Su-24<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Into service<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Formally accepted March 2014, from a Soviet design contract signed in 1989<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Systems<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Sh141 phased-array radar, L-150 Pastel radar warning receiver, 12 hardpoints<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Self-sufficiency<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">In-flight refuelling and an onboard APU allow operation from airfields without ground support<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The production line that never stopped<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/chkalov-novosibirsk-aviation-plant-su-34-assembly.jpg\" alt=\"Su-34 airframes under construction on scaffolding inside the assembly shop at the Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Su-34 assembly shop at the Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant, the only place in the world these aircraft are built. Photo: Wikimedia Commons \/ CC BY 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Every Su-34 ever built has come out of one factory. The Novosibirsk Aviation Plant, known as NAZ or NAPO and part of United Aircraft Corporation, is the sole manufacturer, which makes it an unusually clean thing to count.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>By the start of 2026 it had delivered 212 airframes in total, seven of them prototypes and pre-production examples. Recent annual output has been remarkably flat: 16 aircraft in 2024, 18 in 2025. Western sanctions aimed squarely at the Russian defence industry have not visibly broken that rhythm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Nor has the programme run on a single contract. Russia ordered 32 in 2008, delivered by 2013. A second contract covered 92 more due by 2020. Twenty aircraft with upgraded electronic warfare equipment followed in 2020. Russian media have reported that at least 76 further aircraft, upgraded to Su-34M standard with new electronics and precision weapons carried in underwing pods, are expected by 2027.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Now subtract<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Oryx, the open-source group that only counts losses it can see in a photograph or video, has documented 43 Su-34s destroyed since February 2022. That method is deliberately conservative and certainly undercounts, because an aircraft that goes down where no camera is pointing does not make the list.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Put the two numbers side by side. Roughly 18 to 20 new aircraft a year against 43 confirmed losses across four and a half years works out at about ten a year visually confirmed lost, which sounds survivable, until you remember the count is a floor and not a total.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The point is not that Russia is running out of Su-34s. It is that this fleet is not growing the way the Su-35 fleet has. Production and attrition are close enough that the aircraft doing the most visible work in the war is roughly treading water.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zP29WnIkSNo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">A documentary walk around the Su-34, the aircraft built to replace the Su-24.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why it is worth so much to Russia<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Su-34 is the aircraft that made the glide bomb campaign possible. Fitted with UMPK wing-and-guidance kits, ordinary unguided bombs became standoff weapons, and the Su-34 became the truck that carries them to a release point well behind the line.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;They launch them from Su-35 Flanker and Su-34 Fullback aircraft, which do not enter our air defense zone.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Yurii Ihnat<\/strong> &mdash; Spokesman, Ukrainian Air Force<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Ihnat has described Russian aircraft dropping up to twenty gliding bombs a day. Release points have been reported around 100 kilometres from the target, from Russian airspace, against cities and positions the aircraft never has to overfly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/sukhoi-su-34-fullback-twin-seat-fighter-bomber.jpg\" alt=\"A Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bomber on display, showing its distinctive flattened nose and side-by-side cockpit\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Su-34&rsquo;s side-by-side cockpit and armoured tub were designed for long missions. In Ukraine those missions are mostly flown from behind the front line. Photo: public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;[Russian engineers have upgraded the] universal planning and correction module [kits, fitted to] 250-, 500-, 1,500- and 3,000-kilogram bombs.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Vadym Skibitskyi<\/strong> &mdash; Deputy Head, Defence Intelligence of Ukraine<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>That is the reason a grey, unpainted airframe at a provincial air festival is worth noticing. The Su-34 is not a prestige project like the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-57-felon\/\">Su-57<\/a>, and it is not an air-superiority showpiece like the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/su-35-flanker-e\/\">Su-35<\/a>. It is the working aircraft of this war, and Novosibirsk is the only place that makes it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ir0cZWLsPqQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">Reporting on the Su-34 carrying four jet-capable UMPK glide bombs, extending the standoff range further still.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hIOVVwy9ovo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">A sceptical assessment of the Su-34: capable strike aircraft, or an expensive way to drop unguided bombs?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>One factory, eighteen aircraft a year, and a loss list that only counts what somebody filmed. Those are the numbers that matter, and none of them are secret.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>How many Su-34s has Russia built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Russia&rsquo;s air force had received 212 Su-34s by the start of 2026, including seven prototype and pre-production aircraft. All were built at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant, the sole manufacturer of the type. The plant delivered 16 production aircraft in 2024 and 18 in 2025.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many Su-34s has Russia lost in Ukraine?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The open-source tracking group Oryx has documented 43 Su-34s destroyed since February 2022. Oryx only counts losses supported by photographic or video evidence, so the real figure is likely higher. Losses that occur where no camera is present do not appear in the tally.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where is the Su-34 built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Every Su-34 is built at the Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant in Siberia, known as NAZ or NAPO, which is part of Russia&rsquo;s United Aircraft Corporation. It is the sole manufacturer of the type, which makes production output unusually straightforward to track.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the Su-34 used for in Ukraine?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Su-34 is Russia&rsquo;s primary glide-bomb carrier. Fitted with UMPK wing-and-guidance kits, conventional unguided bombs become standoff weapons that can be released from around 100 kilometres away, allowing the aircraft to strike Ukrainian positions and cities without entering Ukrainian air defence coverage.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the difference between the Su-34 and the Su-24?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Su-34 Fullback was designed to replace the Su-24 Fencer. It is a twin-engine, two-seat fighter-bomber derived from the Su-27 family, with a side-by-side cockpit in an armoured tub, a Sh141 phased-array radar, an L-150 Pastel radar warning receiver, twelve hardpoints, in-flight refuelling and an onboard auxiliary power unit that lets it operate from airfields with no ground support equipment.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did the Su-34 enter service?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Su-34 was formally accepted into Russian military service in March 2014, although the programme traces back to a Soviet-era design contract signed in 1989. The long gap between design and acceptance reflects the collapse of Soviet defence funding and the slow recovery of the Russian aircraft industry in the 1990s and 2000s.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How many Su-34s has Russia built?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Russia\u2019s air force had received 212 Su-34s by the start of 2026, including seven prototype and pre-production aircraft. All were built at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant, the sole manufacturer of the type. The plant delivered 16 production aircraft in 2024 and 18 in 2025.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How many Su-34s has Russia lost in Ukraine?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The open-source tracking group Oryx has documented 43 Su-34s destroyed since February 2022. 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