Russian fifth generation stealth fighter Sukhoi T-50's induction have been delayed by one year. "The T-50 fifth-generation j...
Russian fifth generation stealth fighter Sukhoi T-50's induction have been delayed by one year.
"The T-50 fifth-generation jet should go into serial production and enter service in 2016," Russian president Vladimir Putin Said.
Earlier Russian Defense Ministry said T-50 would join country’s air force in 2015.
Putin also said the new aircraft will far exceed the American F-35 analogue.
Meanwhile, Sukhoi announced that, a Russian Air Force pilot from Chkalov Flight Test Center has completed a successfull maiden sortie in T-50. The 2 hour flight took off from the M.M.Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield in the city of Zhukovsky.
The flight test program involves six prototype airframes, four flying prototypes and 2 ground vehicles. Two ground aircrafts are engaged in ground experimental missions — one, a complex ground test stand and the other undergoes static tests.
The fifth T-50 prototype aircraft will join the flight test program in the second half of 2013. Construction of the plane at the Sukhoi’s aircraft plant — Y.A.Gagarin KnAAZ in Komsomolsk-on-Amur is almost complete.
The T-50, which will be the first fifth generation stealth fighter to enter Russian and Indian Airforces. The program is equally funded by Russia and India.
The fifth-generation multirole fighter aircraft employ's radar evading stealth technology, super-maneuverability, super-cruise capability (supersonic flight without use of afterburner), and an advanced avionics suite including an X-band active phased-array radar.
