Rogozin: The designers working on the PAK FA “second stage” – Look

Sukhoi PAK FA T-50 (PAK FA) – the plane flies, the work of designers focused on the creation of aircraft of the second stage, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

. “Sukhoi PAK FA T-50, essentially a flying plane. Now the work of designers on the second phase of the aircraft we are waiting for its engine “, – RIA” News “the statement Rogozin during a meeting on the development of military aviation.

In June last year, the general director of United Engine Corporation (UEC) Vladislav Masalov said that the first two prototypes of the standard engine for the Russian fifth-generation fighter PAK FA (T-50) had to be created in 2015, but on the production of fact not officially reported.

Before this Masalov reported that development work on the creation of this engine will be completed in 2020. So far, the PAK FA prototype flying with the engine of the first stage – “product 117″, which is put into production.

February 19, media reported that the Russian fifth generation fighter T-50 (PAK FA) in the tests set a record climb, he was climbing at a rate of 384 meters per second.

T-50 (PAK FA project) – Russia’s fifth generation fighter aircraft equipped with a fundamentally new avionics suite and promising radar with a phased antenna array. The first flight took place in 2010 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the first public display of fighter aircraft – in 2011 at the Aviation and Space Salon MAKS in Zhukovsky near Moscow.

On Wednesday, Chief of the Air and Space Forces of Russia, Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev said that Russian specialists are working on the creation of the seventh-generation fighter.

The same day, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the design office “Sukhoi” presented the first design for the sixth-generation fighter. According to him, “it is really nothing of the idea to create the sixth-generation fighter.”

Back in February of last year it was reported that Russia’s largest manufacturer of electronic equipment “Concern” Radio-electronic technology ‘(KRET) leads to the development of combat aircraft of the sixth generation – both manned and unmanned.

In July 2014 the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said that the company expects that the first national sample of sixth-generation fighter aircraft will be established around the second half of the 2020s.