Russian Su-57 Aircraft Thread (PAK-FA and IAF FGFA)
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Well, with a SOLID base in their hundreds of SU-30s, and then adding the Rafales and PAKFAs, and finally augmenting it with their own LCAs, they will indeed.
And their Navy with Mig-29Ks augmented by their own naval LCAs will be no slouch either.
India is moving as rapidly as they can to divest themselves of many hundreds of legacy 3rd generation aircraft, and understandablyt so, and they have some decent plans (despite being plagued by a few issues) to do so.
Brumby
Major
Interesting chart but the dates on the chart looks incredibly unrealistic. For example it talks of SU-50E and 2016 for India. Considering that there isn't even confirmation of a pre production prototype, aren't the dates in the chart somewhat wishful thinking? .
Well, I do not know when that chart was made...so it may simply be out of date from that perspective.
but that chart shows the SU-50 being ready for serial production to Russia in 2016, and a special export version being ready the same year for delivery to India...a one seater.
I do not believe Russia will begin serial production of the SU-50 next year, and I do not believe India is going to take an export version of the single seater at all.
It then also shows a South Korean export version in 2017. Again, I do not believe that will happen at all either.
The chart shows the first two-seat version for India coming along in the 2020 time frame. Maybe that is more realistic...at this stage we will just have to wait and see.
All in all,,,yes, I believe it is pretty much wistful thinking.
Brumby
Major
I was initially surprised that South Korea was on that chart. I googled and my take away was that Russia tried to generate some interest from the South Koreans but I don't believe it went anywhere. The fact that it actually appeared in the chart is somewhat misleading in my view regardless of the feasibility of actually meeting those dates.
I think this is an example where information on the PAK FA can be somewhat confusing at best and rather misleading at worst.
Skywatcher
Captain
It also shows an export version for Iran!
Funny that Vietnam wasn't on it though.
Funny that Vietnam wasn't on it though.
Also why is the first aircraft separated from the other prototypes and re-appears again as 051 !?
Isn't it the same aircraft or do they mean the KNS prototype with "first prototype" ??
As far as I understand the situation, we thus have the flying prototypes T-50-1, T-50-2, T-50-3, T-50-4, T-50-5 (status unconfirmed) & T-50-0, T-50-KPO as static airframes + the non-flying T-50-KNS now complemented by T-50-7 (static for config. II).
Soon to follow are the next two flying aircraft T-50-6-1 (final config. I for India) and T-50-6-2 (first config. II) for Russia.
Deino
Isn't it the same aircraft or do they mean the KNS prototype with "first prototype" ??
As far as I understand the situation, we thus have the flying prototypes T-50-1, T-50-2, T-50-3, T-50-4, T-50-5 (status unconfirmed) & T-50-0, T-50-KPO as static airframes + the non-flying T-50-KNS now complemented by T-50-7 (static for config. II).
Soon to follow are the next two flying aircraft T-50-6-1 (final config. I for India) and T-50-6-2 (first config. II) for Russia.
Deino
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b787
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According to the RIA Novosti report with reference to the factory director, Alexandra Logvinova, the latest radio-electronic warfare station Himalaya for the T-50 will soon deliver the Stavropol Radio Factory Signal, which is a part of .
2016, the Russian military will start deploying two advanced weapons, the fifth-generation fighter jet PAK FA and the long-range surface-to-air missile systems S-500, chief of the Russian Air Forces said.
Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev gave an outline of his branch's modernization plans, includingthe build-up of Arctic infrastructure, in a radio interview with the Russian News Service station on Sunday.
The flight trials of PAK FA (T-50) will soon be over, and in 2016 the Air Force is planning to start commissioning the aircraft into service, the general said.Their plans are that in 2016 the first PAKFAs will be delivered, i only can say that, that is yet to be seen, but those are their plans
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