Sukhoi T-50
YF-23 (Lost to the YF-22)
F-22
Posted on 06/12/2010 2:18:25 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Russian aircraft holding Sukhoi has no plans to sign additional agreements creating a joint venture with its Indian partners in the production of a fifth-generation fighter, the general director said on Friday.
Russian Sukhoi holding and Indian Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) agreed in early 2010 to jointly develop a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet.
Sukhoi head Mikhail Pogosyan had said that an additional agreement would be signed specifying the Indian role in the project, but on Friday he said that the Russian company hoped work would begin soon without any such deal.
"We don't plan to sign a joint venture. We have agreed on joint work with our Indian colleagues," Pogosyan said.
He said the joint work could be carried out under the current agreement.
"We will do our part of the work, our Indian counterparts theirs," Pogosyan said. "At the initial stage it is not necessary to have a joint venture."
Earlier, HAL was reported to be seeking a 25% share in design and development in the project.
Russia has been developing its fifth-generation fighter since the 1990s. The current prototype, known as the T-50, was designed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia's Far East.
Russian officials have already hailed the fighter as "a unique warplane" that combines the capabilities of an air superiority fighter and attack aircraft.
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The Sukhoi T-50 looks like something that will develop out into an extremely capable platform.
To me, it looks like a Russian knock-off of the F-22. I am willing to bet in a hypothetical match against the F-22 or the F-35 the T-50 loses. IMHO,Russia does not have the experience of stealth technology unlike the USA which has decades of experience.
However, I do give credit to Petr Ufimtsev for providing the mathematical model
Sounds like the Nokia’s and the SonyEricsson’s just before the iPhone whacked the living shit out of them.
Don’t rest on your laurels or you’ll find yourself replaced at the top soon after. Only the paranoid survive - wasn’t it Andy Grove who said that?
Didn’t Obama have a “security breach” of F-35 data within a month of taking office?
Sukhoi T-50
YF-23 (Lost to the YF-22)
F-22
No horizontal stabs on the YF-23.
With both thrust vectoring and the "blended canards" of the T-50, it would give the F-22 a very hard time in a WVR dogfight, but the F-35 would be toast.
BVR, it comes down to how many missiles you can carry, and again the F-35 falls short.
It's obvious from the above comparisons that the T-50 is a unique design. I predict it should help sell a lot of F-22s!
Are you taking into account that the Russians were the first to use helmet mounted cueing of high off boresight missiles in a production fighter, and have this in their current aircraft?
Are you taking into account that the F-22 has no helmet mounted cueing or display of any kind?
The Su-30 is not an opponent that should be taken lightly, and the T-50 builds upon this foundation.
What is it about ivan’s planes and crappy views to the rear?
To me, it looks like a clean sheet design using the current library of aeronautical solutions. If it looks familiar, it's probably b/c we built and paid for most of that wing of the library. It's good stuff and since a lot of their engineers got their degrees here, they'd be stupid not to see what they can do with it.
And that's my point. It's a Sukhoi/HAL team effort and definitely not an F-22 knockoff. And this is just the prototype.
It will be interesting to find out what the first operational models can do. So...what was the argument for not buying any more F-22s?
Hiding flaws?
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