Sukhoi PAK-FA / FGFA: Updates,News & Discussions

[spectribution]

Why? This engine is also capable of providing supersonic without afterburner. This is the same engine as use in Su-35.

TWR is very low, if supercruise only at mach 1.1 - 1.2. To fight F 22 you need M 1.5+. Even F 35 will get new engine or full 50000 pounds thrust of engine F135 in near future (2018+). It can also supercruise at mach 1.2.

 

[vostok]

TWR is very low, if supercruise only at mach 1.1 - 1.2. To fight F 22 you need M 1.5+. Even F 35 will get new engine or full 50000 pounds thrust of engine F135 in near future (2018+). It can also supercruise at mach 1.2.

No one knows the exact figures.

 

[HRK]

TWR is very low, if supercruise only at mach 1.1 - 1.2. To fight F 22 you need M 1.5+. Even F 35 will get new engine or full 50000 pounds thrust of engine F135 in near future (2018+). It can also supercruise at mach 1.2.

No one knows the exact figures.

If no one have posted it earlier........

 

[spectribution]

No one knows the exact figures.

Unless new engine, no F22, PERIOD.

 

[proud_indian]

India hopes to put 272 Russia’s Su-30MKI fighters into service by 2018

The Indian Air Force’s backlog of orders for Russia’s Su-30MKI fighters, makes up 272.

The fighters are assembled by India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) that has received a license from Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft maker.

“Since India received 50 assembled planes from Russia, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited had assembled another 134 fighters in India,” a source close to the Indian company told Itar-Tass on Monday. “We hope to form 14 squadrons of Su-30MKI fighters by 2018. By this time we will have 272 such planes in service.”

After this India might enlarge its backlog of orders, if the Sukhoi/HAL fifth generation fighter project or introduction into service of India’s own light fighter Tejas were delayed, the source said.

The Indian Air Force is expected to get its first squadron of Tejas in 2015 and the second one - in 2017. The project to build India’s Tejas fighters began in 1983. The plane made its maiden flight in January 2011.

India hopes to put 272 Russia’s Su-30MKI fighters into service by 2018 | Russia & India Report

 

[trident2010]

I think we gonna see 300+ Su-30MKIs in IAF. This along with Tejas, MIg-29UPGs, upgraded Mirage-2000s and FGFA will make IAF force to reckon with.

 

[jarves]

Nice thread

 

[Reviewer21]

Please can anyone tell me what's the status of Sukhoi/HAL PAK FGFA at present?

 

[jarves]

Please can anyone tell me what's the status of Sukhoi/HAL PAK FGFA at present?

PAKFA and FGFA are different planes.Everything is fine as of now,in short PAKFA will rule the skies.

 

[Reviewer21]

Ohk sorry for that. No actually i wanted to know about the development of project FGFA. What's the status of it?

PAKFA and FGFA are different planes.Everything is fine as of now,in short PAKFA will rule the skies.

 

[jarves]

Ohk sorry for that. No actually i wanted to know about the development of project FGFA. What's the status of it?

We will get the first prototype by late 2016 and will be ready to be inducted by 2020.

 

[Reviewer21]

Ohk so can we know how much work has been done on the prototype? Any pictures, news etc.

We will get the first prototype by late 2016 and will be ready to be inducted by 2020.

 

[jarves]

Ohk so can we know how much work has been done on the prototype? Any pictures, news etc.

I dont have any updates and we will induct a mix of PAKFA and FGFA.

 

[Reviewer21]

I dont have any updates and we will induct a mix of PAKFA and FGFA.

Man, now this is really confusing, if we are inducting mix then what about the fgfa program?

 

[jarves]

Man, now this is really confusing, if we are inducting mix then what about the fgfa program?

These things totally depend upon the doctrine and need of Airforce.Only experts like @Abingdonboy can explain this now.