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Flying Lab has tested the engine for the fifth generation fighter aircraft
Topic: Creating a fifth generation fighter in Russia
MOSCOW, January 27 - RIA Novosti. The first flight of a flying laboratory Su-27M with a engine designed for the fifth generation fighter aircraft, successfully completed on January 21 in Zhukovsky near Moscow, said on Wednesday the press office of Saturn, the company-developer of the engine.
"The flight lasted 45 minutes and was successful, the comments to the engine was not. At the commencement of the flight engine, including a brand new automatic control system has taken a series of ad hoc and endurance tests. Upon completion of the required amount of flying laboratory tests obtained at the conclusion First flight of the fifth generation with a new engine, "- said in a statement.
Fifth-generation fighter, which in Russia is also called a promising frontline aviation aircraft complex (PAK FA), developed with the 1990's.
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New aviation complex will have several unique features: clock, all weather and stealth applications, low visibility and long-term supersonic flight. The aircraft will get a new on-board navigation station and a highly automated system of defense.
Representatives of the military-industrial complex said that tests of the new fighter will have to begin before the end of this year, but in early December, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that the trials would begin in 2010.
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Plane at the end of last year made his first jog in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said earlier that the fifth-generation fighter will begin to act in Russia's troops in 2015.
JSC "Scientific-Production Association" Saturn "- engine manufacturing company that specializes in developing, manufacturing and after sales service of gas turbine engines for military and civil aircraft, ships of the Navy, power generation and gas pumping units. The company is part of the new engine of the Joint Corporation (JDC) - 100 per cent subsidiary of a corporation specialized Oboronprom engine-management assets.
Source: Novosti