Competitor F-22 Raptor

Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA is a fifth generation aircraft fighter jet Sukhoi OKB developed by the Air Force Russian.

Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA is intended to replace the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker in the Russian fighter squadrons and the base of the project / HAL FGFA Sukhoi developed by India. This aircraft is a fighter of the fifth generation, it is designed to compete directly with the F-22 Raptor and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

T-50 made its first flight on January 29, 2010. second flight was on 6 and the third on February 12. Until August 31, 2010, was as much as 17 times in flight and in November 2010, the total flight tests were conducted as much as 40 times.

The second prototype, originally scheduled to begin test flights in late 2010, but it was postponed until 2012.

Director of Sukhoi, Mikhail Pogosyan, projected market share bagi1.000 aircraft over the next four decades, which will be produced as part of cooperation with India, each with two hundred, Russia and India, and six hundred other dedicated to other states. He also said that the contribution of India will be in the form of joint work under the agreement that is not currently as a joint venture.

Indian Air Force would "get 50 single-seater aircraft with Russia," before FGFA developed in two seats.

Russian Ministry of Defense will buy the first ten aircraft after 2012, and 60 after 2016.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union has expressed its desire to create the next generation aircraft to replace the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the first row. Two projects are proposed to meet this need, the project Sukhoi Su-47 and Mikoyan 1.44. In 2002, Sukhoi was chosen to lead the design of the new fighter, and summer 2009, he made drawings have been approved by the PAK FA will incorporate technology that Su-47 and MiG 1.44.

NPO Saturn has been named as an executor to carry out work to make the aircraft engine, while the NAPO Chkalov begin construction of the fifth-generation fighter multi-role is.

On August 8, 2007, the Russian Air Force Commander Alexander Zelin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies said the PAK FA program a development stage has been completed and construction of the first airplane flight testing to begin . Alexander Zelin also said that in 2009 there will be three fifth-generation aircraft ready for flight testing.


On September 11, 2010, the Business Standard of India reports that Indian and Russian negotiators have agreed on a contract for preliminary design will be submitted to Cabinet for approval. This development partnership agreement requires each state to invest $ 6 billion and take eight to 10 years to develop the design of pre-combat aircraft. This agreement is intended to be signed in December 2010 and according to the preliminary design will cost $ 295 million and will be completed in 18 months.

Although most information about the PAK FA obtained from interviews with people in the Russian Air Force and the Ministry of Defence, but the plane is supposed to be capable of supersonic stealth, and will be equipped with air to-air missiles next-generation air-to-surface missiles and air-ship, by combining it with fix mounted AESA radar with a large 1500-element and have an "artificial intelligence".

According to Sukhoi, the new radar will reduce the burden on the pilot and the aircraft will be a link new information to share information between aircraft. Composites are widely used in the T-50 and 25% by weight of the aircraft and hampir70% to cover the outer surface.

It is estimated that the content of titanium alloy of the aircraft is about 75%. Sukhoi is also greatly reduces the radar cross section (RCS) and are equipped with two anti-aircraft guns in tandem in the middle, between the engine nacelles. Each is estimated at a length of 9.4 5.1.

The Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that T-50 was designed to be more agile in handy as the F-22 Raptor with a level of reduced risk of F-22 stealth.

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