Russia's Sukhoi T-50 jet, to spin-off India's super fighter, undertakes test flight

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PTI: Moscow, Jan 18 2013, 15:36 IST

Russia's prototype fifth-generation Sukhoi T-50 fighter jet, on which will be based India's new super fighter has carried out its first successful long-range flight.

The T-50 fighter which features elements of 'stealth-technology', super-cruise capability, advanced avionics suite including an X-band active phased-array radar underwent a long range flight from its manufacturing plant in Russia's far-east to an airfield near Moscow yesterday, Ria-Novosti reported quoting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

"It is a breakthrough " Rogozin who oversees the Russian defence industry, wrote in his Twitter blog adding, " The plane flew 7,000 kms, making two landings, in Abakan and Chelyabinsk, on the way to the Russian capital."

A derivative of the stealth fighter is being developed for the Indian air force and an IAF version is to be test flighted in 2014.

The Indo-Russian version which is called the perspective multi-role fighter is to be developed at an estimated cost of USS 30 billion. The deal is reported to be in its final stages.

The plane joined three other T-50 prototype models at the Zhukovsky airfield prior to state flight tests, which are scheduled to start in March 2013. The T-50, also known as project PAK-FA, first flew in January 2010 and was presented to the public at the Moscow Air Show in 2011.

The Russian Defence Ministry is planning to finish the state flight tests of eight prototypes by 2015, so that they could go into standard production in 2016. The fighter is expected to form the core of Russia's future fighter fleet.

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Gaurav | 18-Jan-2013Reply | Forward

It is my money which would be used forcibly to pursue such proven faulty endeavours. 'Tumhare Bap ka paisa nahi lagta hai un sukhoi T-50 ka oiling karane me, vaise bhi unko jung lagne wala hai..jab jaroorat hoti hai istmal karni ki toh beel me chup jate hai kayron ki tarah'..and then these idiots use my planes to entertain some SAINA NEHWAL for just no reason. When it was extremely necessary to use the Air-Force in the 1962 Sino-India conflict, Mr. Nehru for his own unknown reasons snubbed the 'Professional & Competent' Defense Forces to restrain from using it. Use of Air-force could have changed the course of the war. The real might of Indian soldiers is clearly evident in the Great BATTLE of RENZANG LA where just 120 Indian soldiers of the esteemed Kumaon/AHIR Regiment killed almost 2000-3000 of Chinese troops. It is high time that the Henderson-Brookes-Bhagat Report comes out in the Public Domain. I really wonder some times that why the defense forces are so protective of the GOVT.