Tezpur (Assam): Air Commodore P K Borbora on October 3 said that the MiG-21 fighter aircraft would be replaced in the next four years with fifth generation aircraft like Sukhoi-30.

''Indian Air Force (IAF) has already purchased fifty Sukhoi-30 aircraft and another 50 per cent of the aircraft against the targeted 150 aircraft will be jointly manufactured with Russia,'' Borbora told visiting journalists from different states of the North East on the occasion of the 70th Air Force celebrations at Tezpur IAF station.

He said that the new fighter jet aircraft would be jointly manufactured by India and Russia with the latest avionic technology.

Borbora said that the MiG-21 was presently utilised for training pilots having the highest 340 km speed landing capacity.

PTI