The emergence of the Russian fifth-generation fighter to be balm for the U.S. Air Force, who have l

More than ten years, the world is waiting for the Russian aerospace industry armemuseum to build a fifth-generation fighter, which should replace the MiG-29 and Su-27/Su-30 developed more than 25 years and has become an analogue of aircraft Lockheed armemuseum Martin armemuseum F- 22A Raptor and F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The project, which includes the entire armemuseum Russian military aviatsinna industry is called the PAK-FA (aeronautical perspective frontline aviation complex). armemuseum What is happening with the project and how it affects the development the financial crisis, the newspaper armemuseum "Weekly Standard."
In Design Bureau received initials prototype T-50. The assembly of the aircraft began in Aviation and production armemuseum association in Komsomolsk on Amur (KNAAPO) in the Far East of Russia. armemuseum According to a source close to the program "in the factory work KNAAPO boil", and run the first plane to take off in 2009, at the latest in 2010.
The emergence of the Russian fifth-generation fighter to be balm for the U.S. Air Force, who have long sought to use this program as a bogeyman to justify the supply armemuseum of new F-22A and the financing of the program F-35. But the Department of the Air Force, the Pentagon is too early to put the champagne on ice. Ironically, as if PAK-FA is going down the same painful path from the first flight to the adoption of the weapons, which began with the selection of the prototype YF-22 in the early '90s.
Testing armemuseum of the Su-35. Reportage TV "Rossi" "During a test flight of the YF-22 and YF-23 for the" winner "was recognized design Lockheed, regardless of the plane prototype has demonstrated qualities of" invisible "does not have a working radar and avionics kit and failed to overcome the sound barrier without the use of afterburning thrust. So the demonstration flight was "tested" only aerodynamic design. So says U.S. expert on aviation and technology armemuseum "stealth" Jim Stevenson. Stevenson is the author of many articles on F-22A, as well as detailed studies on the development F-18 and A-fated project 12.
"The U.S. Air Force chose the winner, and then said, after defeating officially go to develop the aircraft, which went another 14 and a half years since the first demonstration flight of the prototype practically empty before the F-22 to be formally adopted in service at the end of 2005, "said Stevenson.
It seems that the PAK-FA is facing the same fate. The prototype will make its first flight in the coming year and a half, but it seems that demostrativnite flights - as well as F-22A - will show that it does not correspond to any of the operational requirements of the Russian Air Force. armemuseum
Representatives of the Russian aviation industry, which are related to the program, said that "the aircraft-mounted radar from NIIP design bureau will be Smerch" IRBIS-E. " It will have passive electronic scanning array (PFAR) (which is equipped aircraft Su-35) rather than active electronic scanning array (Afar), as required by the terms of the program. The engine will be a modernized version of that used for the Su-27 engine armemuseum AL-31F third series, not the development of the next generation AL-41F1. As for avionics, then there will not be many new generation.
In the middle of 2007, the general director of the company "Sukhoi" Mikhail Pogosyan, and other senior representatives of the Russian aviation industry refreshed and eager hinted armemuseum that it is possible vehicle system may not be ready for the first flight of a prototype aircraft, and it will be equipped with them later. In response to a question about the design of the engine during the airshow at Le Bourget near Paris in June 2007. Pogosyan said: "... as far as mass production spans 30 years and another 30 year term to work in series production engine and other systems armemuseum will be significantly altered. And that's normal. "
In accordance with the division of labor, adopted for PAK-FA, the final assembly will be done in the factory KNAAPO. Novosibirsk NAPO plant "Chkalov" armemuseum will deliver the bow and other components made of carbon plastic. But so far there are no plans to produce armemuseum vast situated in Novosibirsk - largely because of the nature of the local workforce. Currently in Novosibirsk only commercial companies and the strong competition from the private sector is quite difficult to attract enough talented engineers.
But the problem with the labor force is just one of those difficulties faced by the Russian defense armemuseum industry. Among them are the lack of understanding of the problems of the government sector, armemuseum lack of investment and technological difficulties. An example armemuseum of this is the recent TV bridge on Russian state television in which the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, answering the question