FGFA: The Indian Air Force's 5th Generation fighter.
Posted on 10/15/2009 11:28:25 PM PDT by myknowledge
NEW DELHI: India and Russia, after protracted negotiations and some glitches, are now going full steam ahead to finalise the joint project for the stealth fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), which will have super-manoeuvrability and supersonic cruising ability.
The FGFA, along with other R&D projects like the multi-role transport aircraft (MTA) as well as the BrahMos-2 `hypersonic' cruise missiles, will gain further momentum when PM Manmohan Singh holds a summit with President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow this December.
India and Russia will then also ink the fresh inter-governmental agreement on military-technical cooperation to extend their "strategic partnership'' by another 10 years, as reported by TOI earlier.
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FGFA: The Indian Air Force's 5th Generation fighter.
Doesn’t look very stealthy.
These are just conjectural drawings of the FGFA. We haven't even seen the real ones yet. Maybe you spotted the round exhaust TVC nozzles.
Looks like a Northrop YF-23.
I didn’t know they had first through fourth generation ones. Too stealthy to catch on camera?
I’d think they should first see to it that their millions of starving folks get a good meal, but hey, I’m crazy that way.
Trust me, they would RATHER feed their starving folk.
They tried that in the first two decades of their independence.
The net result was BOTH Pakistan and China invaded them and now hold a large part of Indian territory bigger than the American North East
Unilateral disarmament does not work. Every time it was tried, the country was gobbled up by its enemies.
The PAK FA vaguely resembles the YF-23. It more like resembles the F-22 Raptor.
I think the YF-23 is the slickest jet fighter ever. I sure hope we are cranking them out as a “black project”. Unfortunately I know better with the MB in charge.
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