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Sukhoi Director Mikhail Pogosyan confirms the Air Force will receive a minimum of 200 out of the 1000 PAKFA being produced within a four decade timeline. Russia to make 200 stealth jets for India Updated on Saturday, March 13, 2010, 16:12 IST New Delhi : Russia will build more than...

For those of you that missed it: Tikhomirov-NIIP's unveiling of the PAK FA's 'upgraded' IRBIS-e radar with APAA at the MAKS-2009.

Not in those pictures. But you can here. The reason why the rivets in your pics are not self-evident is because Skunk Works, the contractor for the titanium frames and composite parts, used a technique called 'Stereo-lithography' in conjunction with digital techniques to manufacture tools...

Actually, the YF-22 did have all those rivets. The F-22 reduced the "use of welding means that involved the use of more traditional fasteners such as screws and rivets by as much as 3/4". F-22 vs YF-22 Structure and Engines Edit: Give it a rest. Compressor replacements, to make the...

The first testbed did indeed fly without Tikhomirov's AESA radar, but future prototypes will almost certainly feature the Iztok, Fryazino-designed AESA, expected to be an improvement upon the IRBIS-E . The reason being: that the antenna entered benchtesting in November 2008, and was only...

Your first hi-res images: From the images, it would appear that the T-50 / I-21 has two large ventral bays, two side weapons' bays for short-range AAMs/AMRAAMs and from the 'translated' press release/speculation of each being able to hold two missiles (reasonably postulating the side bay for...

W.r.t. the post made by p2prada, just something to think about ... even if not 100% representative, a comparison / list made by "Scorpion" (via FlugzeugForum) of time between first flight and service introduction - meaning earliest date of delivery (and not IOC) of several recent types: