Source: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/5032/
18:23 GMT, January 21, 2009 defpro.com | Russia’s fifth-generation fighter have to start testing phase in 2009, deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti today. Further progress on the aircraft should terminate in a first commissioning to the Russian Air Force before 2015, the News Agency said.
"I insist that the testing start as early as 2009, and the fifth-generation fighter must enter service with the Russian Air Force in 2015," Sergei Ivanov said at a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission.
Ivanov said the fighter programme must be accelerated as previous plans set 2010 for the first tests of the new fighter. The deputy prime minister was confident that the date can be hold, since developments on the first prototype of this aircraft are nearing end.
Russia's advanced multirole fighter is being developed by Sukhoi, which is part of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), along with India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), under a preliminary intergovernmental agreement signed in October 2007.
Russia and India will simultaneously develop two versions of the combat aircraft - a two-seat version to meet the requirements of India's air superiority doctrine, and a single-seat version for the Russian Air Force.
Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker earlier said it had started to construct a prototype of the fifth-generation fighter, which will feature high maneuverability and stealth to ensure air superiority and precision in destroying ground and sea targets.
The Russian version will be built at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft-manufacturing plant in Russia's Far East.
Ivanov said on Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturing industry should review and adjust some testing programs and methods due to advanced nature of the new aircraft.
More information: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/5032/
18:23 GMT, January 21, 2009 defpro.com | Russia’s fifth-generation fighter have to start testing phase in 2009, deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti today. Further progress on the aircraft should terminate in a first commissioning to the Russian Air Force before 2015, the News Agency said.
"I insist that the testing start as early as 2009, and the fifth-generation fighter must enter service with the Russian Air Force in 2015," Sergei Ivanov said at a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission.
Ivanov said the fighter programme must be accelerated as previous plans set 2010 for the first tests of the new fighter. The deputy prime minister was confident that the date can be hold, since developments on the first prototype of this aircraft are nearing end.
Russia's advanced multirole fighter is being developed by Sukhoi, which is part of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), along with India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), under a preliminary intergovernmental agreement signed in October 2007.
Russia and India will simultaneously develop two versions of the combat aircraft - a two-seat version to meet the requirements of India's air superiority doctrine, and a single-seat version for the Russian Air Force.
Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker earlier said it had started to construct a prototype of the fifth-generation fighter, which will feature high maneuverability and stealth to ensure air superiority and precision in destroying ground and sea targets.
The Russian version will be built at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft-manufacturing plant in Russia's Far East.
Ivanov said on Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturing industry should review and adjust some testing programs and methods due to advanced nature of the new aircraft.
More information: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/5032/
