Which is excellent news since it was supposed to fly before the end of 2011.:rolleyes: Oh well, we cant do anything other than just wait.

well, thrust me, I heard ‘before the end of 2011’ by my own ears) but **** happens

meantime, at roundtable in Russian Sandia Labs/Livermore – town of Sarov:

“Obviously, we will make it. This is not a question now. The technological hurdles are solved. And we will do that fast enough “- said the prime minister.
“T-50 is going to be better than the U.S. fifth-generation aircraft. It also becomes obvious to all professionals, “- said Putin. “Several new aircrafts will fly this year”

http://vz.ru/news/2012/2/24/563859.html

elections are close, in one word…

Any news about the T50-4 Flateric?

recent citation from Pogosyan: “T-50-4 fill fly till the end of 2012”

I highly doubt sukhoi designers & software specialists in Moscow will be making less.

well, you will be surprised, but lack of qualified workers wiped out in 90s now lead to situation when СNС machine operator in private sector may earn $5000 while say Tactical Missiles Corp.can offer him no more than $1000-1500. institute degree may expect $700-800 at design bureau at first time. many wages ads are just …ads, like this Sukhoi DB Moscow office vacancies page http://www.sukhoi.org/vacancy/invite/ promising $1500 /month.
grOOmi that you have probably heard of and who’s in charge of programming for СNC that makes for example titanium bulkhead ot T-50 should skip two or more free Saturdays a month and work extra hours to reach $1000 point

afres reading author’s revelations of that ‘117M'(?) engines are installed on T-50 and early T-50s will have radar from Su-35 (obvious problems with geometry he has), his credibility goes in death spiral. he should be sniffing forums better next time.

flateric,what about the surprise u promised us 😎 🙂

surprise should be surprise, otherwise it’s not a surprise surprise

Can i pull your tongue about that E-721 again ?:rolleyes: Is it indeed like the description on paralay, an aircraft not unlike J-20 ( canards, side intakes etc etc )?

all was said that E-721 was a ‘development of 1.44/1.42 ideas’. after J-20 appeared, some ex-MiG workers said it looks in line of post 1.42 studies made by another new design team in early 00s (poor bird has changed two or three chief designers in her history)

And I wonder does all manufacturers has the heavy 5th gen. fighter concepts or someone develops the lightweight 5th gen fighter?

PAK FA was intended to be somewhat in the middle of F-22A/F-35 class – cheaper, more affordable flying compromise- even with extreme STOL ability at the earliest stage (Yakovlev would be merging efforts with winning contender, , playing as sub-contractor, but stepped out of game in 2005 when overdue STOL requirements became less stringent with its expertise), that has grown closer to F-22 during design stage
LMFS – lightweight single-(preferable design concept) or two engine fighter, Indian AMCA can be an example of such proposal
both Sukhoi and MiG have plenty LMFS-class projects under the sleeve, but now LMFS is no more