Light Fighter 5 th generation will be based on technology heavy promising fighter
MOSCOW, April 16. (ARMS-TASS). Light Fighter 5 th generation will be based on technologies promising a heavy fighter ( approx. Fig. left ), currently being developed, said korr.ARMS-TASS news agency the president of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Alexei Fedorov, who visited the 10-th International Salon " Engine 2008 ".
"In Russia today, all financial, intellectual, technical and manufacturing resources of the aviation industry are focused on the creation of a heavy fighter 5 th generation. We can not spray them, and must complete this program. Only then can consider the establishment of a light promising fighter on the basis of derived technologies ", - A. Fedorov.
According to him, until a decision on the establishment of a light promising fighter on the market will be offered MiG-35 ( in the photo below right ), which already implemented some of the technology 5-th generation, including airborne radar with active phased array.
According to the head of the KLA, Russia Made Fighter 5 th generation is clearly going the way that are the United States. There was initially created heavy fighter F-22 Raptor, "and then on the basis of its technologies began to form a light fighter F-35 Lightning 2, which has higher export opportunities.