This past weekend the Russians reportedly successfully tested their new 5th generation stealth fighter jet, the Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA, which was designed to go head to head the F-22 Raptor. The Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA, Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsy, literally "Future Front line Aircraft System".
General characteristics
* Crew: 1
* Length: 22 m (72 ft)
* Wingspan: 14.2 m (46.5 ft)
* Height: 6.05 m (19.8 ft)
* Wing area: 78.8 m² (848.1 ft)
* Empty weight: 18,500 kg (40,785 lb)
* Loaded weight: 26,000 kg (57,320 lb)
* Useful load: 7,500 kg (combat load) (16,534 lb)
* Max takeoff weight: 37,000 kg (81,570 lb)
* Powerplant: 2× New unnamed engine by NPO Saturn of 175 KN each
Yahoo! News
MOSCOW – A stealth jet fighter intended to match the latest U.S. design made its maiden flight in Russia on Friday, an important step in the country's efforts to modernize its aging Soviet-era arsenals.
The Sukhoi T-50 prototype took to the skies for a 45-minute flight from an airfield at the company's production plant in the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Friday, Sukhoi spokesman Alexei Paveshchenko told The Associated Press.
Russian officials have spent two decades trying to build the so-called fifth-generation fighter and hope the T-50 can challenge the U.S. F-22 Raptor, which first flew in 1997. The Russian project has been veiled in secrecy and no pictures of it had been released before the maiden flight.
2 comments:
Those look pretty sweet , But they have a lot to live up too !
Been watching a pair of the F-22's ,fly almost directly overhead at White Sands , they do some "Amazing" Stall Maneuvers , it is almost like a "Hover" Type thing .
It is almost unreal , how they can change directions .
Im not as lucky as you to have seen F22 live in action but I agree that the Russians do have a lot of catching up to. I don't think that the Russian jet has the multi directional exhaust.
I think we should post some F22 porn
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