Russia set to show off its first stealth fighter
A new Russian twin-engine T-50 jet fighter lands at Zhukovsky airfield as it takes part in MAKS-2011, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, on August 14. Russia was due Tuesday to unveil its first stealth fighter, a T-50, to the public, lifting the curtain on a secret project designed to flood the market with cheaper versions of veteran US jets.
Russia was due Tuesday to unveil its first stealth fighter to the public, lifting the curtain on a secret project designed to flood the market with cheaper versions of veteran US jets.
The Sukhoi Tu-50, being developed jointly by Russia and India, made its maiden flight at a Far East air base on January 29, 2010 but is being presented to the public at the MAKS airshow outside Moscow for the first time.
Two prototypes of the single-seater fighter are expected to fly over the Zhukovsky air field in a show of Russian military confidence in the much-delayed project.
Russian officials said the final version of the jet will not be ready until the end of 2016. India was reported to be interested in up to 200 T-50 fighters for its air force while Russia was planning to order at least 150.
"The T-50 jet will provide the backbone not only of the Russian air force but also that of India," said Mikhail Pogosyan, president of the United Aircraft Corporation state aviation holding company.
"Russia's cooperation with India on this project will help it promote the fifth-generation jet on the foreign market," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Pogosyan as saying.
Pogosyan had previously voiced plans to develop up to 1,000 jets over the coming decades, while state television said Russia hoped to control up to a third of the stealth fighter market in the coming year.
India, Russia's biggest arms client, agreed to develop the project in tandem with Moscow during a December 2010 visit to New Delhi by President Dmitry Medvedev.
New Russian twin-engine T-50 jet fighters fly over Zhukovsky airfield during MAKS-2011, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, on August 14. Russia was due Tuesday to unveil its first stealth fighter, a T-50, to the public, lifting the curtain on a secret project designed to flood the market with cheaper versions of veteran US jets.
The agreement put new life into a project that was first mooted in the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union identified a need to replace its existing Mig-29 and Su-27 jets.The first US prototype of a stealth fighter -- the F-22 Raptor -- emerged nearly two decades ago and Russia only awarded the development contract in 2003.
Russia's state media reports last year said up to $10 billion was being poured into the jet's development but that the fighter would cost no more than $100 million.
The US raptor sells at $140 million a piece, a price tag that prompted Washington to order a halt in new jet purchases in 2009.
(c) 2011 AFP
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$10 Billion in development? Yawn...
Aug 16, 2011
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Our ships are outfitted with lasers to assist in their AA capabilities, and we have lots of "weather" satellites orbitting the earth.
Hopefully, this isn't leading to another cold war or God forbid, world war 3.
What else is new though?
In the 80's, the U.S. and Russia played Iraq and Iran against one another, in the 50's and 60's it was China and Russia doing it with North and South Korea and Vietnam, and now it seems they are up to the same old shit again, except this time with India and Pakistan.
What kind of idiot government sells hundreds or apparently even thousands of stealth fighters to a country with a population of a billion?
Is Russia ASKING to get bitten by their own dogs?
haven't they learned what hindus and muslims are yet? They actually going to trust these lunatics with this technology?
this is NUTS...
Aug 16, 2011
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Else maybe this signifies a more sinister development in both Russian and Indian foreign policy.
There's a lot of people in India, and if Russia and trick their billion population "ally" into serving as cannon fodder, whether economically or physically, then their own goals may be advanced.
If they sell stealth weapons to both sides in India and Pakistan, or China...my God, they could get a billion people killed easy...
Not to mention these bastards will end up funneling it to what's left of terrorist organisations operating out of Iran and Syria and Lebanon.
Can you imagine Bin Laden's successor, whoever it is, armed with a stealth fighter or bomber?
I mean this is lunacy for sure...
Aug 16, 2011
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he literally sat around with his buddy, and they said, "We need to think of a more efficient way for Europeans to kill one another."
And then they invented the first models of the Machine Gun, and sold it to several countries on opposing sides.
It seems humanity really is nothing more than one screwed up race of murdering lunatics.
Aug 16, 2011
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I'll be hanging out with the crowd that believes we actually landed on the moon, catchya later
Aug 16, 2011
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It makes no sense. Both countries are are regional powers nestled up to a regional superpower and some dilapidated second and third world countries. This does absolutely nothing to change the balance. Russia doesn't want to work with pakistan and neither does india, so where does that enter the equation?
The only thing I agree with you is that they will probably suffer from maintenance costs on top of an already very expensive jet. If you account for the cheaper labor costs, this jet is actually MORE expensive to build. It would cost 175M or more to make in the use due to wage differences.
Aug 16, 2011
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we would know WW3 was coming before it ever erupted. Russia would likely first annex that which it lost when the red curtain fell. India seems to be more on the defensive than the offensive.
Aug 17, 2011
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Aug 17, 2011
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If Steve Jobs was Russian president, they would sue the living crap out of you for patent infringement and invoke a preliminary injunction barring you globally from selling any stealth plane.
Aug 17, 2011
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The nukes will start going off in the middle east.... and hopefully, they won't go farther afield.
Aug 21, 2011
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Or it could be an indication of how good a shape it is for a Stealth fighter. Meaning based on the stealth tech used you will need certain shapes for it to work well. And hav to say Techno shold really soapbox elsewhere.