Russia's Sukhoi to develop 5th generation fighter jet 03/23/2005 18:47 The new fighter jet will be a fundamentally new machine, not just a modernized version of an old pursuit plane The competition of world's biggest superpowers to develop the fifth generation of pursuit planes still continues. Russian specialists intend to build such a jet, or an aviation complex, as engineers say, in five or seven years. Technical details of such developments are being kept top secret, although Russian aircraft designers decided to expose several solutions of theirs. Russia's world-famous major aircraft corporations, MiG and Sukhoi were fighting for the right...