There's seems to be a common delusion that Russias only combat aircraft with an AESA radar is the Su-57. This is categorically false.
First, production aircraft with AESA fire control radars.
Su-57 with N036 Byelka multi positional GaAs/GaN system with slotted planar/radiator and patch antenna arrays. Entered production in 2019 with over 50 made.
Su-35S with the N036KL GaAs Wing radars with improved radiator arrays. Entered production in 2012 with over 200 made.
Su-30SM2 with the N036KL GaAs Wing radars with planar arrays. Entered production in 2019 with over 40 made.
We can see the N036KL radars on the bare frames
Su-30SM with normal wings
SM2 with the N036KL Wing radars
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N036KL antenna exposed
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This is because the SM2 uses the Irbis-E radar and the KL Wing radars come as a radar package, an off shoot of how the old Su-37 used to have a rear radar.
Irbis-E and N036KL package
Su-34M with both the Kopyo-DL rear facing GaAs radar with a slotted planar array and the RBB-3 Pika-M used on the UKR-RL SLAR AESA radar pod. It entered production in 2019 with over 60 made.
MiG-35D with the FGA-29 Zhuk-A GaAs AESA radar with a patch antenna array. It entered production in 2019 with 2 made.
Ka-52M with the V006 Rezets GaAs AESA radar with a patch antenna array. It entered production in 2021 with over 70 made.
Ka-27M with the FHA03E GaAs AESA radar with a patch antenna array. It entered production in 2014 with over 80 made.
S-70 Okhotnik-B with the MBRLS-MF2 GaAs AESA radar with a slotted planar array. It entered production in 2024 with over 6 made.
That's 8 combat aircraft all in production and all using AESA.
Now we have either Prototypes or offered for upgrade.
Yak-130M with the BRLS-130R GaAs AESA radar with a slotted planar array.
Mi-24PN-1M with the V006 Rezets GaAs AESA radar with a patch antenna array.
Mi-171Sh Storm with the VN-101 Zaslon utilising a patch antenna array.
Su-75 with the N036 Byelka GaAs AESA radar.
FGA-35 Zhuk-AD for export MiG-35E or MiG-29 upgrades.
FGA-50 Zhuk-AM with GaAs AESA radar with a patch antenna array for export Su-30 upgrades.
That's a further 6 radars offered for 10 different airframes. So we have 8 production combat aircraft with AESA and over 500 produced.
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