Aircraft
New Engines, Weapons for Russian Stealth Fighter
A higher thrust powerplant should fly on the T-50 PAKFA next year, while new missiles and bombs have been specified.
A prototype T-50 lands at Zhukovsky airbase near Moscow. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
A prototype T-50 lands at Zhukovsky airbase near Moscow. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Russia’s T-50 fifth-generation fighter aircraft will enter flight-test with new engines in the fourth quarter of next year. The Sukhoi-designed jet is also known as Pakfa (Russian acronym for Perspective Aviation Complex of Frontal Aviation). More detail about the T-50’s weapons fit has recently emerged.


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