Interfax-AVN
United Aircraft Corporation plans in 2015 to begin trials of two more units of fifth-generation fighter PAK FA (T-50), the head of the KLA Mikhail Pogosyan.
"To date, tests are held on four samples of T-50, next year, will connect the two," - said Mikhail Pogosyan reporters on Saturday in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant them. Yuri Gagarin (included in the company "Dry)
"We had planned in 2015 to complete the first stage of state tests fifth generation fighter T-50, and these plans are relevant. We are working hard to make this program was developed in the timeframe that we have stated. Today, in spite of the questions that always arise at various stages of testing, we are generally satisfied with the program, so plan to finish in 2015, the first stage of state tests and start from 2016 aircraft deliveries ", - said the head of the KLA.
Responding to a question about when to start testing the T-50 combat use, M.Pogosyan reported that this information for the benefit of the Defense Ministry were not disclosed.
The first flight of the PAK FA was held on 29 January 2010 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Compared with the previous generation fighters PAK FA has several unique features, combining the functions of attack aircraft and fighter.
The use of composite materials and innovative technologies, aerodynamic design aircraft, measures to reduce the visibility of the engine provides unprecedented low level of radar, optical and infrared signature. This can significantly increase the combat effectiveness in the work of both air and ground targets at any time of day, and adverse weather conditions.
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Last summer during competition flying skills crews Russian Air Force "Aviadarts" was first publicly demonstrated fifth generation fighter T-50 with a suspended arms - it created a member of the KLA Company "Sukhoi" Sukhoi PAK FA (PAK FA).
Not a glance
PAK FA has all the basic features characteristic of fifth generation fighter. This is primarily a small visibility in the radar and other wavelength ranges, and secondly, the ability to perform cruise at supersonic speeds, thirdly, ultra maneuverability (the so-called super-maneuverability), and, of course, the latest highly automated complex on-board equipment innovative active and passive electronic and opto-electronic systems which serve for the detection of air and ground targets, applying on them a wide range of aircraft weapons, provide flight and navigation, radio communication and group actions, defense against attacks by the enemy.
Low visibility PAK FA is provided by a special form of the airframe, the extensive use of composite materials in the construction, coverings, the presence of internal weapons bays, which house the main part of the payload. The possibility of cruising supersonic flight aircraft owes its high-thrust engines on without afterburner modes. Maneuverability fighter realized by a combination of special algorithms integrated management system and aircraft applications it thrust vectoring engines.
The onboard equipment PAK FA is based on an innovative information management system (IMS) with multiple redundant modern calculators and data buses, which serves as the control and management of all onboard systems and armament of the aircraft. Such ideology IMS is already implemented by "dry" on fighter generation "4 ++" Su-35s coming from the beginning of this year in the Russian Air Force.
The main means of detecting targets, ensuring the use of weapons, as well as solving problems of piloting and defense on board the PAK FA are created NIIP them. VV Tikhomirov (part of the group "Radio-electronic technologies" state corporation "Rostec") multipurpose integrated electronic systems with active phased array antenna (all aboard the aircraft will be five AFAR) and optoelectronic system, developed by the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant. ES Yalamov (concern "Schwabe" state corporation "Rostec"). In the arms of the PAK FA, including placement in the internal weapons bays, will include how to upgrade the current patterns of serial aircraft weapons, as well as a significant number of new types of guided missiles "air-to-air" and "air-surface" and corrected bombs created Corporation "Tactical Missiles".
By the summer of this year on the flight tests were five prototypes of the PAK FA. The first of these first flew in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, January 29, 2010, and in April of the same year is being tested in Zhukovsky near Moscow. In addition, ground-based experimental work involved two more instances of the aircraft - a comprehensive full-scale stand and model for static tests. The second flight model of the T-50 was tested in Zhukovsky in the summer of 2011, and February 21, 2014 was transferred to the airfield State Flight Test Center. VP Chkalov Russian Defense Ministry Ahtubinsk for state joint tests. The third and fourth aircraft flight models intended primarily for testing complex avionics PAK FA and arms flying through the test program in Zhukovsky since June of 2012 and March 2013th respectively. It is on the third T-50 in summer 2012 in Zhukovsky began flight testing radar AFAR. In October last year in Komsomolsk-on-Amur rose into the sky fifth flight model of the PAK FA, in November 2013, he flew in Zhukovsky.
According to the chief designer of the machine program director PAK FA and the PMI company "Sukhoi" Alexander Davydenko, in this plane, "introduced improvements, born on the basis of previous test machine, it is equipped with the most and almost fully compliant serial combat aircraft."
As the president of KLA Mikhail Pogosyan, the PAK FA prototypes have demonstrated "good reproducibility flight development and bench testing, including radar AESA." According to him, this also applies to the engine, "the thrust of which is 15% more than the AL-31FP, and much more at military power without afterburner modes, providing supersonic cruising." During flight tests (LCI) was also initiated testing of in-flight refueling mode, modes, and so supermaneuverability. D.
Stage factory LCI PAK FA was completed in late 2013. And in 2014, the aircraft brought into the state joint tests, the first stage of which is scheduled to be completed by December 2015, and in 2016 is expected to start delivering the first production aircraft for pilot operation in the Air Force. It was only recently (in air show in the competition flying skills among the Russian Air Force crews) first publicly demonstrated the T-50 with an external suspension arms under the wing.
