Russia’s fifth-generation fighter jet to make maiden flight in 2017

T-50 fighter jet

 

The fifth generation fighter will be equipped with second-stage engine 17% to 18% more efficient than its predecessor

MOSCOW, December 4. /TASS/. First Russian fighter jet of the fifth-generation fitted out with a second-stage engine is expected to make a maiden flight in 2017, Vyacheslav Massalov, the Director General of the United Engine-Building Corporation said on Thursday.

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The maiden flight of fifth-generation jet fitted out with the first-stage jet took place in 2010, Mikhail Pogossian, the chief designer of the corporation said last summer. The supplies contract for those aircraft is expected to be signed in 2015

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