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Russian AF to get first T-50 fighters in 2013

Issue No. 11 | June 01-15, 2012

The Russian Air Force will receive the first batch of prototypes of its fifthgeneration T-50 fighter for performance testing in 2013, Colonel General Alexander Zelin has said.

The T-50, developed under the PAK FA programme (Future Aviation System for Tactical Air Force) at the Sukhoi experimental design bureau, is Russia’s first new major warplane designed since the fall of the Soviet Union.

“The work on the fifth-generation fighter is going according to schedule,” Zelin, a former Air Force commander, told a news conference in Voronezh (central Russia). “The third prototype has joined the testing programme and the fourth is being built.”

The T-50 made its maiden flight in January 2010 and three prototypes have since been undergoing flight tests. Zelin earlier said that the number of T-50 aircraft involved in testing would be increased to 14 by 2015.