Can Moscow regain superpower status? This fighter jet is key

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Russian Unveils Stealth Fighter Intended to Match U.S. F-22 Raptor

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Russia's first stealth fighter intended to match the latest U.S. design made a successful maiden flight Friday, giving a boost to the country's efforts to modernize its rusting Soviet-built arsenals and retain lucrative export market.


The Sukhoi T-50's flight comes nearly two decades after the first prototype of the U.S. F-22 Raptor took to the air, and Russian officials said it will take another five years for the new jet to enter air force service. Still, the flight marked a major step in Russia's efforts to burnish the faded glory of its once-proud aviation industries and strengthen a beleaguered military.


SLIDESHOW: Russia's Sukhoi T-50 Challenges U.S. Jet















The sleek twin-engined jet closely resembling the Raptor flew for 47-minutes from an airfield at Sukhoi's production plant in the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Friday. Development of the so-called fifth-generation fighter has been veiled in secrecy and no images of it had been released before the maiden flight.


Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hailed the T-50's flight as a "big step forward," but admitted that "a lot remains to be done in terms of engines and armament."


The NPO Saturn company said in a statement that the jet has new engines, but military analysts suggested that they were a slightly modernized version of the Soviet-era engine powering the Su-27 family of fighters.


"It's a humbug," said independent military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer. "It's just a prototype lacking new engines and a new radar. It takes new materials to build a fifth-generation fighter, and Russia lacks them."


Putin said Friday the first batch of new fighters is set to enter an air force evaluation unit in 2013 and serial production is set to begin in 2015. But analysts were skeptical, pointing at a history of delays in the new fighter program and other Russian weapons projects.


"The schedule will likely be pushed back as usual," said Alexander Konovalov, the head of the Moscow-based Institute of Strategic Assessment, an independent think tank.


Russia's prospective Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile has failed in at least eight of its 12 test launches, dealing a blow to Kremlin's hopes to make the submarine-based weapon a cornerstone of the nation's nuclear arsenal. Officials have blamed the failures on manufacturing flaws resulting from post-Soviet industrial degradation.


Felgenhauer and other observers said the fighter program, which depends on hundreds of subcontractors, has been dogged by similar quality problems.


Russian officials have said the new fighter, like the Raptor, will have a supersonic cruising speed and stealth capabilities. Its pilot, Sergei Bogdan, said in televised remarks that the T-50 was easy and pleasant to fly.


While the new fighter will significantly bolster Russia's air force capability and allow the country to compete more efficiently in the global arms market, some analysts said the country has more pressing needs.


"There is no mission and no adversary for such plane," Konovalov said, adding that the Russian military lacks a modern communications system and satellite navigation. "It would be more expedient to fit modern avionics to older generation jets."


The U.S. administration decided to quit buying the F-22 Raptor plane, the world's most expensive fighter jet at more than $140 million apiece, effectively capping its production at the 186 already ordered.


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man, wherever u go u'll sure find AA.
but this article is an obsolete one published the same day T-50 made its maiden flight.
now read this
Assessing the Sukhoi PAK-FA / Sukhoi/KnAAPO T-50/I-21/Article 701 PAK-FA Перспективный Авиационный Комплекс Фронтовой Авиации

 

[SajeevJino]

Russia's prospective Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile has failed in at least eight of its 12 test launches, dealing a blow to Kremlin's hopes to make the submarine-based weapon a cornerstone of the nation's nuclear arsenal. Officials have blamed the failures on manufacturing flaws resulting from post-Soviet industrial degradation.

Your News agency lacks of original datas ..tell me FOX news to refer RIA NOVOSTI site also

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The U.S. administration decided to quit buying the F-22 Raptor plane, the world's most expensive fighter jet at more than $140 million apiece, effectively capping its production at the 186 already ordered.

which US pilots is ready to intend fly in the Raptor ..Quiet of Problems over the F 22 you know I know everyone Knows ...and Two decades are over and still don't get any News that F22 combat Proven ...

and Your F 35 quietly Amazing fighter But Why some Countries didn't ready to buy the Fighter ..Like Canada already cancels and looking for Su 35..and F35 is best for CAS only not the SEAD or Air Superiority missions

In other side the Russian Air Force Gets First Six Su-35S Fighter Jets Russian Air Force Gets First Six Su-35S Fighter Jets If head to head combat mission between Soviet/Russian Machines and Uncle sam Machine who will wins...

 

[Armand2REP]

In the real world Russia has a 2,738 mi border with China,, China population is increasing and Russias population is decreasing.

The Chinese position is that the 19th-century border treaties, concluded by the Qing dynasty China and the Tsarist Russia, were "unequal", and amounted to unfair annexation of the Chinese territory. Thats not much question as that the Chinese population grows and the chinese population is growing even on the Russian side of the border and the need for natural resources grows that along with the claims for the south china sea the Chinese are going to push for return of their lands in Russia. Its just a matter of time.

Both China and Russia have a balancing population. Considering the Soviets saved them in WWII and liberated Manchuria, Russia doesn't owe them a damn thing. Russia isn't intimidated like the SEA countries. When a Chinese fishing vessel enters their waters unauthorized, they sink it. I only wish more countries had that gumption. Russia and France don't take shit from anybody.

 

[no smoking]

Why do you think anyone who opposes to your view as Indian? he is Average American, not Indian.

I didn't question he or she is indian or not. I only raised one question which was never discussed in this forum by any indian member: where india is going to find the resource to feed itself in future!

 

[jalsa]

I didn't question he or she is indian or not. I only raised one question which was never discussed in this forum by any indian member: where india is going to find the resource to feed itself in future!

Where China going to find the resources?

 

[asianobserve]

It can match F-22 in all its manoeuvres and stealth as well.

Not in stealth, maybe it can match the F-35's stealth characterstics.

 

[no smoking]

Where China going to find the resources?

The answer is: we already found our resources with all those big long term contracts in africa, south america and Russia. These contracts can guarantee China's resouces demand in next 10-15 years.

Comparing to China, india is facing a more difficult job: your population is growing faster and you are planning to boom your manufacturing basis. All these will boost your demand on resources dramatically. Then you have to ask yourself: where you can find the extra resources and how you get them.

 

[average american]

According to one survey befor the Chinese goverment censored it half the most or more wealthy Chinese want to emigrate from China, that would indicate to most people a rather severe possibilit y of problems. How about you No Smoking would you like to leave China or have you already left?

 

[no smoking]

According to one survey befor the Chinese goverment censored it half the most or more wealthy Chinese want to emigrate from China, that would indicate to most people a rather severe possibilit y of problems. How about you No Smoking would you like to leave China or have you already left?

As a developing country which is sturggling to build itself towards a developed country, it won't be surprise that there are many severe possibility of problems.

For myself, I already immigrated 10 years even though I am rich. The only reason I stay in Australia is that I have no confidence to win over those smart guys in China. It is actually the same reason for those rich, the only difference is they have no confidence on their children's abilities.