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No one these days work alone, in fact F-35 is an international program, so far China uses Russian engines.Yes is I know it's business, but my question is why is Russia in need of a third partner to help fund for it's T-50 project? Why can't they do it all by themselves like China and the US?
Sukhoi and Russia gain more having export orders, but stealth aircraft are expensive so the customer always ask some degree of tech transfers or industrial share.
Russia does not loose simply because the money poured in the project cheapens T-50 for their own Russian market and the export market gets a cheaper jet.
T-50 is just one of the new Russian projects, the 6th generation will based on T-50, so India and Brazil are basicly helping the next generation aircraft.
Russia invest less and makes money. like F-35, the business is always cheaper products
Russia is actively developing an unmanned sixth generation aircraft, said a former Air Force commander. Unlike NATO allies who will use American F-35 5Gs, self-sufficiency is an absolute must for Russia, said the commander, so 6G evolution is inevitable.
With a fifth generation PAK-FA heavy attack jet already developed and planned to enter service in 2016, Russian aviation is also looking to the future of air combat, conducting research and development for aircraft that can dominate airspace by the mid-21st century.
Ahead of the MAKS-2013 airshow due to start on August 27, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Army General Pyotr Deynekin, gave an interview to the RIA news agency, in which he made vague, yet far-reaching remarks about the future Russian Air Force.
Deynekin admitted that work on the sixth generation long range assault jet is in “active phase” and “most probably” the aircraft will be unmanned. While some NATO member countries are planning to ‘forego’ development of a fifth generation fighter jet, buying American F-35’s instead and developing a sixth generation aircraft from scratch, Russia has no possibility to economize in that way, he said.
“We must do this serious undertaking on our own, so jumping over a [aircraft development] generation is hardly possible,” Pyotr Deynekin told RIA.
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