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Sukhoi’s Next Step Towards a Fifth-Generation Fighter
Defense Professionals ^ | 1/1/2010 | Nicolas von Kospoth

Posted on 02/01/2010 3:48:14 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld

On Friday morning, Sukhoi Company (JSC) and the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) celebrated its latest success in the ambitious and prestigious fifth-generation fighter aircraft project, the PAK FA. The T-50 prototype aircraft left the ground at the KNAAPO factory aerodrome in Russia’s Far East and made its first basic manoeuvres during a 47 minute flight.

Congratulating all participants of the project on the occasion of the maiden flight, Alexey Fedorov, President and Chairman of control board of UAC, said that it “opens a new horizon for the Russian aviation for the rest of the 21st century and, hopefully, even further. Successful beginning of flight trials on the next-generation aircraft stimulates us for new achievements and sparks our desire to create.”

According to RIA Novosti, India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is involved with a 25 per cent share in design and development of the aircraft and will create a twin-seat fighter based upon the single-seat concept within the FGFA programme to meet Indian Air Force requirements. The two countries, which already maintain strong co-operation in the military aviation sector, share the costs of the project, estimated at some $8 to $10 billion. Both countries reportedly are planning to purchase 250 aircraft.

(Excerpt) Read more at defpro.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: russia; russianairforce; sukhoi; t50
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To: Always Independent

True...

But be careful, Russian Spec Ops personnel are monitoring this thread...;-)


21 posted on 02/03/2010 4:06:12 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: stevie_d_64

Let them, its common knowledge about the SR-71 and also public knowledge about their engine designs vs US. All of this has been on TV.


22 posted on 02/03/2010 9:43:45 AM PST by Always Independent
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why is the Osprey is a failed aircraft ?

Because it was supposed to lift off like a helicopter and then fly as fast as an airplane.(400 Knots per hour)
Now it is basically just a problematic helicopter. All the maintenance issues of a rotorcraft, flies as slow as a rotorcraft, inefficiency and poor payload of a rotorcraft. There are helicopters that can do the job just as well for less and do it more safely. Mounting the rotors on a single centrally mounted pivoting pylon would have been a simple, stable, lightweight, and efficient configuration, but wingtip mounted rotors look cool. I guess it doesn't matter that it causes a million problems.
Wingtip mounted tilt rotors:
Make the wing structure heavier.
Make the craft inherently unstable.
Make any thrust asymmetry deadly.
Limits the diameter of your rotors to small and inefficient.
Causes increased cabin noise and vibrations as the fuselage is inline with the rotor.
Fuselage area inline with rotor tips is heavier to withstand slung ice chunks.
necessitate a huge and heavy transmission system running from one wingtip to the other in case of a single engine power loss.
Does not autorotate well.
And Etc. Etc. Etc.

23 posted on 02/03/2010 4:35:13 PM PST by ME-262 (We need Term Limits for the federal house and senate. We need new Bums up there.)
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