First PAK DA bomber flight due in 2019

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First PAK DA bomber flight due in 2019 - AF commander - Interfax

February 13, 2015 19:03


KRASNOYARSK. Feb 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia's next-generation strategic bomber, the Prospective Aviation Complex for Long-Range Aviation (PAK DA), will take off in 2019, and there are no delays in construction, Russian Air Force Commander-in-chief Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev told reporters on Friday.

"The PAK DA is being built as per the roadmap, without delay. We are planning its maiden flight in 2019, then start testing it and later serialize it," Bondarev said.

He recalled that the PAK DA is a joint project of Tupolev and Gorbunov KAPO (Kazan Aircraft Production Association).

 

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http://tass.ru/en/russia/777542

February 13, 17:56 UTC+3

Russia's stealthy strategic bomber is to replace the Tu-95 and Tu-160 planes that are currently in service with Russia’s long range and strategic aviation

KRASNOYARSK, February 13 /TASS/. Russia’s prospective Air Complex for Long Range Aviation (PAK DA) will take to the sky in 2019 as planned, Viktor Bondarev, commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, told journalists on Friday.

"The PAK DA air complex is being created under a road map without any lag. We are planning to make the first flight in 2019 to be followed by a series of trial flights. After that, batch production of the PAK DA air complexes can be launched," Bondarev said adding that the PAK DA is being developed by the Tupolev design bureau and the Kazan Aircraft Production Association.

According to Long-Range Aviation General Anatoly Zhikharyov, Russian troops will start receiving the new aircraft in 2023-2025.

The PAK DA will be a fundamentally new aircraft, not a modernized version of the Tu-160 plane. It is supposed to replace the Tu-95 and Tu-160 planes that are currently in service with Russia’s long range and strategic aviation.

 

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