Chinese Stealth Fighter

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Article about United Aircraft Corporation head, Mikhail Pogosyan, commenting on the Chinese Stealth prototype being basically a technology demonstrator instead of a real contender, similar to the role of the SU47 Berkut.

 

OAK Head Criticizes Chinese Fifth Generation Fighter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The manager of the Unified Aircraft Building Corporation (OAK), Mikhail Pogosyan, evaluates skeptically the Chinese program for creation of a fifth generation fighter. This year China demonstrated a fifth generation airplane for the first time that has made one demonstration flight, Fontanka.RU reports.

 

 

 

“It is more a demonstrator than a real program,” Pogosyan said at the Le Bourget air salon in France, commenting on the flight of that airplane. At the same time, he emphasized that the Chinese aviation industry is developing successfully. “We are analyzing it very closely,” he added.

 

 

 

“However, there won’t be any kind of huge leaps forward here. For realization of such programs (fifth generation) one needs to have a large scale and great experience,” the OAK manager thinks.

 

 

 

He reported that the program for creation of the Russian fifth generation fighter (PAK FA) is being developed in two directions – there is the development of the basic airplane for the Russian military and the program of cooperation with India on the creation of an export version of this airplane. “It is a single program, 90 – 95 percent unified,” Pogosyan said.

 

 

 

The agency source added that tests of the fifth generation airplane are on schedule, without any malfunctions. “At the present time two airplanes are being tested in the sky and one airplane on the ground. All programs are under way successfully,” Mikhail Pogosyan noted.

 

 

 

Pogosyan emphasized that the volume of domestic and export purchases of combat aircraft by 2020 should be equal and amount to a percentage ratio of 50 – 50. “If in the 1990s we had a ratio of 10 to 90, of which 90 percent comprised exports, then by 2020 this ratio will be 50 – 50 and even 60 percent – it will be a defense ministry order,” the OAK head said.

 

Source: 20.06.11, Avia.RU

 

 

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