RFAF

AcronymDefinition
RFAFRequest for Additional Fires (US DoD)
RFAFRussian Federation Air Force
RFAFRadni Festival Animiranog Filma (Croatian: Working Animated Film Festival)
RFAFRussian Festival of Anthropological Films
RFAFRight Femoral Arterial Flow
RFAFRemining Financial Assurance Fund (Pennsylvania)
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The RFAF has ordered 60 Irkut-built Su-30SM multi-role fighters with canards and thrust-vectoring AL-31Fs.
The RFAF's current air superiority leader is the 34.5-tonne Irkut-built "4++ generation" single-seat Su-35S, which has thrust-vectoring 142-kN Saturn Type 117S engines, but no canards.
Some 28 modified export MiG-29SMT/UBTs have been accepted by the RFAF, which in 2014 placed a RUB 17 billion ($ 290 million) order for 16 more MiG-29SMTs.
At the top of the performance scale, by 2019 the RFAF is to receive around 60 modernised 42-tonne MiG-31BM multirole fighters with Zaslon-M radars.
Today's fighter market: achieving sales of fourth-generation fighters is proving difficult, and Chinese combat aircraft marketing remains strangled by Russian engine availability
As an interim measure, the RFAF is having its twelve existing Il-78 brought to 210-tonne Il-78(M)2 standard with stronger wings and undercarriage and modernised avionics.
In January 2015 the RFAF ordered two Ilyushin Il-96-400TZ tankers.
Tankers, the new generation
Beyond 2018, the RFAF plans to replace the PS-90A-76 engine of the Il-76MD-90A with the 153-kN Aviadvigatel/Perm PD-14M developed for the Irkut MC-21-400 airliner.
Transport aircraft in times of change
In 2009 the first 12 of an initial batch of 36 were ordered, and the Ka-52 entered nominal service with the RFAF at the end of 2010.
Attack helicopters go multirole: first tested in Vietnam, but later developed primarily to counter massed armour thrusts across Europe, the attack helicopter may now be going back to its roots, as a fast escort for ground convoys and heliborne assaults, and as a fire support gunship
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