Posted on 01/18/2006 7:35:29 AM PST by Srirangan
Moscow: Russia's fifth-generation fighter plane will be ready in 2007, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Vladimir Mikhailov said Tuesday.
"Work to build the fifth-generation plane is going according to schedule," he said.
Mikhailov said, however, that the project had encountered some financial problems after civilian aircraft were produced using the money allocated in the budget for the fighter planes.
"Clearly, the development of aviation technology will depend on specific military and economic conditions, determining the progress of reform in the Russian armed forces and the country's aircraft construction industry. However, Russia will continue to be a leading aircraft-building power," he said.
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It does have refueling capabilities (the equivelent to our F/A ones.) The Chinese also have the specs for this.
And I bet that some of these "appear" in Venezuela next year.
Finally - someone else who gets it.
I’m honored. Seems you signed on just to respond to my post from last year?
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