PAK FA 5th generation fighter, Russia

[Moscow]

new AESA radar gor PAKFA- & MIG-35


The Russian corporation Fazotron-NIIR has concluded development of the newest "Zhuk-AEh" active phased array aircraft radar for MiG-35 fighters. According to the firm's general director, Vyacheslav Tishchenko, it is the first active phased array antenna assembled in Russia. Its appearance brings out fighter closer to the main competitor, the American F-35 fifth generation fighter. Now our MiG is able to compete with the F-35 not only in combat but also in the worldwide arms marketplace.

It is thought that Russia was lagging behind the United States in the area of the development of future new, fifth generation aviation complexes. The Americans already have the F-22 Raptor ((in English)) heavy fighter which has gone into series production. The F-35 is still at the testing stage. But it already is clear that it will be one of the most prospective combat aircraft of the world. The United States and its allies already have ordered more than 3,000 such fighters. We still have more to think about than to respond to the Americans. As the say at the Sukhoy design bureau, at the firm that won the state tender for the development of the future fighter, "everything is going according to plan." The already are assembling the first examples of the new aircraft at Komsomol'sk-on-Amur, and the future S-117 engine for it is being broken in on the newest Su-35.

The appearance of the regenerated MiG is an event of the very same magnitude. The renovated electronic "stuffing" distinguishes it from the usual MiG-29. All airplane systems are controlled by on-board computers. Instead of analogue needled instruments there are liquid crystal panels. The newest Peterburg Klimov Design Bureau RD-33MK engines with fully rotating nozzles. In which connection, not only in "normal" flight regime, but also in afterburner. These properties radically distinguish the MiG-35 from the Su-30MKI itself or the American F-22 and F-35.

However, in modern combat all this is not enough if the aircraft and the pilots are "blind." The "Zhuk-AEh" solves this very problem. Such radars were installed only on the most modern American fighters until its appearance, and Western Europe still is unable to create them. The installation of the complex will bring our MiG-35 fully up to the Western competitors, and at the same time will increase the chances for victory in the tender offered by India for the MMRCA program for the delivery to Delhi of 126 fighters. Let's try to analyze the details.

Parabolic or slot antennas were installed on our previous airplanes. They had one signal transmitter and receiver each. An active phased antenna array is built on the principle of a comb, which consists of 680 miniature receiving and transmitting systems. Such an antenna (again in contrast to the "predecessors") is monolithic, that is it does not turn from side to side in the search for targets. This economizes not only the systems' weight (it no longer needs electric motors), but also decreases the time for detection by the radar of targets by an order of magnitude, the scanning beam shifts from one antenna point to another in split seconds.

The new "Zhuk" has an angle of view of plus - minus 60 degrees. Viewing range is 140 kilometers. It can simultaneously track 30 and fire at 6 targets. Both in the air and on the ground. At the same time, the new antenna allows resolving a number of tasks. To transmit data about the tactical situation to other airplanes, perform electronic warfare and terrain mapping. Exactly the same as it is done on the American F-35.

According to the head of the Unified Aircraft Building Corporation, Aleksey Fedorov, all this allows talking about the MiG-35 as one of the most prospective Russian fighters which brings it close to the new generation of combat airplanes in its capabilities. In case of winning the tender, as Russian experts note, India will receive not only the fighter itself, but also the technology for producing the new radars with the active phased antenna array.

Source: 15.12.08, Finansovye Izvestiya, Correspondent: Dmitriy Litovkin

 

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Sukhoi PAK FA Updates: First Prototype by August 2009, Special Software for Indian Versions
Dated 28/2/2009


Indian Air Force will initially get the same PAK FA fifth-generation fighter as their Russian colleagues. Sukhoi general director Mikhail Pogosyan said Thursday that he would seek to unify the Russian and Indian requirements for the new aircraft. "The basic version of the fighter will be common", he explained. "The difference will be only in software".

India agreed to join the PAK FA program in 2007. According to the bilateral agreement, the development of the modification for the Indian Air Force will be split 50:50 between Sukhoi and India's HAL. But now it looks like Pogosyan doesn't want to waste efforts and time by developing a special Indian version at this stage, but to focus on rolling out the first prototype by August this year, as already promised by top Russian government and military officials.

Pogosyan also mentioned that the airframe is almost ready, while more time is needed to finish the radar. This supports the idea that the first PAK FA will be a very basic prototype, and more time will be required to define and test the production configuration.

As Pogosyan said, the Indian requirements can be taken into account later, while HAL's 50% share in the development of the IAF modification can be realized in the more distant future – including the creation of two-seat and ship-based variants.

Sukhoi PAK FA Updates: First Prototype by August 2009, Special Software for Indian Versions | India Defence

 

[Super Falcon]

yes it was artistic impression nothing like it exist

 

[ejaz007]

New Russian Fighter Makes Maiden Flight
By Nabi Abdullaev
Published: 29 Jan 2010 13:01


Moscow - Russia's long-awaited fifth-generation stealth jet fighter made its maiden flight in the Russian Far East on Jan. 29.

The fighter, tentatively dubbed the T-50 and designed jointly with India, is intended to challenge the technological superiority of the U.S. F-22 Raptor, and to boost Russia's own defense capabilities for several decades.

Designed by Sukhoi and built by the company's Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant, the T-50 prototype flew for 47 minutes and landed on the plant's airfield. In a statement distributed by Sukhoi on Jan. 29, its pilot, Sergei Bogdan, said the airplane "performed well on all stages of the test-flight program design by us. It is easy and comfortable."

According to Sukhoi, the fighter - Russia's first all-new warplane since the collapse of the Soviet Union - has new avionics systems, a phased-array radar, and equipment to exchange information with both ground command-and-control systems and other aircraft in an air warfare group.

"This allows a significant increase in military effectiveness," a company statement said, stressing that the T-50 answers all requirements of a fifth-generation fighter, including a supersonic cruising speed. The sophisticated control systems "allow a pilot to concentrate on tactical tasks," while use of composite materials, the aerodynamic design of the body and measures taken to decrease the visibility of the aircraft engine provide for "unprecedented low radio, optical and infrared visibility," the statement said.

T-50 and modernized fourth-generation fighters will be the core of the Russian Air Force for decades, Sukhoi General Director Mikhail Pogosyan said in the statement.

"I am confident that our joint project [with India] will leave behind Western equivalents in terms of cost effectiveness and will not only strengthen the defensive capabilities of Russia and India, but also occupy a worthy place on the market," Pogosyan said.

The F-22 is the only fifth-generation fighter in the world since it first flew in 1997. The U.S. Congress bans export sales of F-22s.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin has said that the fifth-generation fighters will enter service beginning 2015.

Sukhoi said that the T-50 was equipped with new engines developed by the Rybinsk-based NPO Saturn company. The engines were first tested on a Su-27M fighter on the Zhukovsky field outside Moscow on Jan. 21.

Russia started developing a fifth-generation fighter in the late 1980s, with MiG Corp. taking the lead in research and development. But in the mid-1990s, the MiG project was dumped because of Russia's economic problems. Sukhoi began work on the fighter in the early 2000s when the government decided to return to the project.

Russian news agencies have reported that the T-50 has a range of 5,500 kilometers and can develop a speed of 2,100 kilometers per hour.

New Russian Fighter Makes Maiden Flight - Defense News

 

[RPK]

India to open talks with Russia on stealth aircraft


After favouring the U.S. for its recent purchases of hi-tech military equipment, India has now turned to Russia, its old supplier, for the next generation fighter aircraft.

PAK FA, Russia’s fifth generation fighter, which boasts of radar evasion characteristics, made its maiden flight only late last month.

India inked an agreement with Russia for jointly developing this aircraft, but the time taken to complete the paperwork meant that 70 per cent of the plane was already developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau. Now India has planned to enter the project mid-way. It will discuss the development schedule for the coming years and the number of aircraft it requires with Deputy Prime Minister and Russia’s India point man S.S. Sobyanin when he visits India by the middle of this month, senior government sources said.

Though its force levels are depleting, the Indian Air Force wants to ensure that the replacements are world-class and the best in the region. The 250-plus Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft to be inducted gradually over the next decade fit the bill, and so will the 126 frontline multi-role fighter aircraft, which India plans to buy and for which six vendors are in the fray.

PAK FA, billed as a competitor to F-22 Raptor, developed by the U.S., is expected go into mass production after at least five years. The striking feature of this aircraft is its stealth characteristics: radars will find it tough to spot it. It will also be able to take off from short airstrips and remain in the air for longer than the current fighters in the inventory of air forces around the world. What has attracted India to the project is the cost factor: it will be a lot cheaper to make than F-22.

Besides the talks on the aircraft, the military-technical team accompanying Mr. Sobyanin will hold discussions on more T-90 tanks, the naval version of MiG-29, Sukhoi-30 MKI and the multi-role transport aircraft project, said the sources.

The two sides have agreed on the price for refurbishing the aircraft carrier Gorshkov. Russia is poised to deliver more frigates to the Indian Navy. It will also transfer a nuclear-powered submarine to India by the middle of this year.

Recently India has favoured the U.S. while buying medium and heavy-lift planes and long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft. U.S. companies are also in the race for several types of helicopters and refuelling planes. But officials say the list of military ventures with Russia is still longer and more varied.

 

[RPK]

How long has the PAK-FA or T-50 been flying?

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2010/02/06/how-long-has-the-pak-fa-or-t-50-been-flying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrikeyBlogs+%28Crikey+Blogs%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher


Did this PAK-FA or T-50 (above) take to the sky for the first time on January 29, or is there another element to the stealth characteristics of the Russian answer to the Joint Strike Fighter or JSF F-35 on which the future air superiority of Australia depends?

This note is being circulated by Peter Goon, the co-founder of Airpower Australia.

Now having reviewed the many images and videos of the PAK-FA that are now available in the public domain, it is now possible to state, if this image has not been modified by the removal of details on the control surfaces of the aircraft, then the attached photo image is not from the first ‘public’ flight of the PAK-FA T-50 aircraft on the 29th of January, 2010.

Also, due to differences in other details between this image and images from the first ‘public’ flight, there is a distinct possibility this is likely an in flight photo image of a PAK-FA prototype aircraft other than the one that flew the first ‘public’ flight.
This is but one small part of the analysis that goes to show that those who think Sukhoi have a long way to go and many risks to overcome to develop this aircraft to operational status are card bearing members of the “don’t know what they don’t know about things they are not equipped to understand” part of our society.

As ever, the devil is in the details.

In terms of wake-up call for national pride, let alone strategic threat, the advent of the PAK-FA T-50 should rankle at the same level as the radio signals beamed back to earth by the orbiting Sputnik satellite.

The alarms in people’s heads should sound doubly loud given the direction the Gate’s OSD and those who have occupied that office are now taking US TACAIR and overall Air Power capabilities.

What is most curious and one of the sustained harmonics of these ringing alarm bells is the number of those who have passed through the Office of the Secretary of Defense who had worked for and, now, either work in or consult for Lockheed Martin Corporation.

A similar observation can be made for other US Government departments such as Justice and State.This all keeps getting curioser and curiouser while the alarm bells keep ringing louder and louder.

After reading this note I question whether there is more than one T-50 involved in the full Russian language version of the shorter english language edit included in our initial report, and the animated discussion that followed.

Several things can be said with confidence. The photos and videos that flooded the public domain with what has to have been official blessings include at least one that was almost certainly not taken during the ‘official’ first flight, and is most likely of a different T-50

 

[RPK]

domain-b.com : High-powered Russian defence delegation to firm up cooperation

High-powered Russian defence delegation to firm up cooperation news

08 February 2010

India and Russia will discuss the development schedule of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) when Russian deputy prime minister, SS Sobyanin, visits India sometime in the middle of the month.

Sukhoi design bureau's PAK FA (Perspektivniy Aviatsionniy Komplex - Frontovoy Aviatsii, or, the Future Front line Aircraft System), project, to give it its Russian designation, is touted as a competitor for the American F-22 Raptor stealth, advanced fighter aircraft programme. Informally, it is also referred to as the 'Raptorski.'

Rich in radar evasion characteristics, the prototype made its maiden flight late last month.

India has a joint development programme for the project where though it will foot development costs on an equal-share basis it will be responsible for the development of 25-30 per cent of the systems, particularly the twin-seat variant asked for by the IAF.

The Russians are developing the single-seat variant.

The FGFA aircraft will act as considerable force-multipliers in the region and will serve to boost the capabilities of a force that is gradually inducting 250-plus Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, currently rated as possibly the best conventional 4th generation fighter in operation with any of the world's air forces.

Unlike the heavy weight Sukhois, India is also set to induct atleast 126 medium category frontline multi-role fighter aircraft over the coming decades under the multi-role medium range combat role aircraft programme (MMRCA).

These too will greatly enhance capabilities of the air force. There are currently six vendors are in the fray for the supply of these aircraft.

The PAK FA/FGFA programme is expected go into mass production in about five years.

Besides the talks on the FGFA programme, the military-technical team accompanying Sobyanin will also hold discussions on the acquisition of additional T-90S tanks, the MiG-29K, which is a naval variant, additional Su-30MKI aircraft and the multi-role transport aircraft project, defence sources said.

Lately, the bilateral defence relationship has made huge progress with the resolution of the vexed issue of re-pricing the Adm Gorshkov project. Russia is now poised to commence deliveries of additional stealth frigates to the Indian Navy.

It is also scheduled to transfer an Akula-II class nuclear-powered submarine to India by the middle of this year.

Sobyanin's visit will be watched with interest in defence circles and will also likely lay the groundwork for premier Vladimir Putin's visit sometime in March or April.

 

[owais.usmani]

Russian 5th-generation fighter makes 2nd flight​

Russia's prototype fifth-generation fighter has made a second test flight in the Far East, a Defense Ministry official told RIA Novosti on Friday.
"Russian specialists have been carefully monitoring the U.S. F-22 Raptor, so we can compare the newest Russian fighter with it," the official said, adding that the plane had "a very bright future."
After a number of test flights in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the aircraft will be transported to the Zhukovsky airbase near Moscow for final testing.
A prototype of the fighter made a 47-minute maiden flight in Russia's Far East on January 29.
Russia has been developing its newest fighter since the 1990s. The current prototype, known as the T-50, was designed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Russian officials have already hailed the fighter as "a unique warplane" that combines the capabilities of an air superiority fighter and attack aircraft.
Earlier this week, Russia's Air Force chief said the first batch of fifth-generation fighters would go into service in 2015.
MOSCOW, February 12 (RIA Novosti)


Russian 5th-generation fighter makes 2nd flight

 

[DMLA]

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/sGpNBb6rCjGfQxBlG9SFlQ?feat=directlink

From russian newspaper (credits: omen @ mp.net)

Can anyone translate (other than the obvious figures ofcourse!)

 

[Dron.ru]

PAK-FA radar with artifical intelligence can display some new kind of stealth objects: images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/12841/troll_detected.png

 

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[tricrule]

Check out the new Pak Fa pictures

 

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[Marxist]

Russia's T-50 PAK FA Not Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet Yet

Prime Minister Putin praised Russia’s new fifth-generation fighter jet when he visited the Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute in the Moscow region on June 17. However, Putin was hasty in his remarks. The T-50 fighter jet, which performed its 16th test flight for Putin, can not be referred to as the fifth-generation aircraft. Experts claim that the plane has to be reequipped to obtain the title.
For the time being, the PAK FA jet meets only a few requirements of the aircraft of this class, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper said.

According to experts’ estimates, if a plane does not correspond to two or three requirements on the list of technical qualities, it can not be considered as fifth-generation aircraft. That is why the USA’s F-35 and Russia’s MiG-35 are only budget replacements of the genuine F-22 and T-50 fifth-generation jets.

The plane, which was demonstrated to Putin in the town of Zhukovsky, corresponded to a part of technical requirements. It is a multi-role jet that can be used both for executing air defense tasks and for striking ground-based targets.

Russia Today: Russian fifth-generation fighter: high hopes

The T-50 develops the ultrasonic speed in a regular operation mode. Fourth-generation jets had to use the afterburner for the purpose. The T-50 engine consists of the digital control system and the plasma ignition system. The engine and the advanced construction of glider give the jet extra high maneuvering abilities. Russian specialists are working on the next generation of engines that are said to improve the flight performance of the T-50.

The stealth technology, a mandatory requirement for a fifth-generation fighter jet, has not been fully developed for T-50. It is worthy of note that the T-50 is the stealthiest plane among all Russian warplanes. However, US specialists sacrificed additional maneuvering ability to make the F-22 stealthier. Experts say that Russian engineers will most likely choose the maneuvering capability between the two qualities.

The PAK FA carries state-of-the-art radar equipment with active phased antenna array. The Russian-made device allows to conduct all-sided and multi-channel target servicing, which is also one of the requirements for fifth-generation fighter jets.

The T-50 lacks the required electronic equipment. The plane of this class must carry state-of-the-art avionics: a circular data system, automated interference control and other systems. It was earlier reported that India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited would deal with development of the navigation system and the mission computer for the T-50.

Vladimir Putin said in Zhukovsky that the T-50 fifth-generation fighter jet would be 2.5 or even 3 times less expensive than its foreign analogues. The Russian jet will overcome the USA’s F-22 on its maneuvering ability, arms and range.

Russia has spent 30 billion rubles on the first stage of the development of the plane and will require additional 30 billion rubles for the second stage. The modernization of the engine and the arms of the jet will follow next.

PAK FA’s speed limit is 2600 km/h, the maximum non-afterburning speed – 2100 km/h. The practical range – 4300 km. For comparison, F-22 Raptor’s speed limit makes up 2410 km.h, the maximum non-afterburning speed – 1963 km/h, and the practical range – 3219 km.

Russia's T-50 PAK FA Not Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet Yet - Pravda.Ru