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Russia’s Air Forces will receive 55 T-50 PAK FA stealth fighters by
2020, Vladislav Goncharenko, a deputy head of the military aviation
programmes department at Russia’s United Aircraft-building Corporation
(UAC), said on Monday.
“By 2020, a total of 55 fighters of the fifth generation are expected to
be supplied to the Russian Air Force,” he told the Ekho Moskvy radio
station. In his words, the army would receive first such aircraft in 2016.
“Now, we are building prototypes, conducting tests. Works proceed in
line with the schedule,” he said.
PAK FA, which stands for Perspektivnyi Aviacionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi
Aviacii, or Advanced Frontline Aircraft System, is a product of the
Sukhoi Bureau, where its name is T-50. Five T-50 fighters have already
been built and made their maiden flights, three more are under
construction.New-type unmanned fighting and reconnaissance vehicles will
be developed in Russia by 2018.
“It is the order from the Russian defence ministry. I think is will be
executed in 2018,” Goncharenko told, adding that his corporation was
conducting large-scale development works in this area.
“We already have ne flying drones. They are not vehicles that could be
used to survey a battlefield, they are big reconnaissance fighter
systems on the drone platform,” he said.
Source : Russia’s air force to receive 55 fifth generation stealth fighters by 2020 | idrw.org
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