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Electronic Mock-up of Fifth Generation Airplane Created in Russia

An electronic mock-up of the fifth generation airplane has been created in Russia, the air force commander-in-chief, General-Colonel Vladimir Mikhaylov, reported to Interfax-AVN on Thursday.

“Right now active work on the fifth generation airplane is on-going. It is very painstaking. An electronic Mock-up of the fifth generation airplane already has been created. Right now we are studying it, analyzing it. The airplane is turning out very well,” he said after a meeting of the air force military council on the road, which took place at the base of the 929th state flight test center in Akhtubinsk.

V. Mikhaylov declared that, “the delivery to the troops of reliable and effective aviation equipment is impossible without the clear-cut organization and assurance of tests.” “Deficiencies which are permitted with the creation of aviation equipment and not uncovered in the process of tests are sources of negative factors which have a universal nature for an aviation system,” he said.

“The goal of the meeting on-the-road of the air force military council, the CinC noted, is the exposure at the place of the problems and the adoption of pressing measures so that in the very near future we are able to test new aircraft equipment actively for a more accelerated advancement of it into the air force.”

“The rash cut-back of the flight test center has led to the fact that those buildups which we had and have have begun to be tested with a time delay. But today we have fixed all this. Interesting and prospective things await us ahead in the creation and assimilation of new aviation equipment,” V. Mikhaylov said.

Source: 30.10.03, Interfax-AVN