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Air Force Leaders Say Strategy Calls for F-22, F-35 Capabilities
Fifth-generation fighter aircraft are key to America maintaining domain dominance in the years ahead, Air Force officials said here today. Lt. Gen. Christopher D. Miller, deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs, and Maj. Gen. Noel T. “Tom” Jones, the service’s director for operation capability requirements, said the technology – exemplified in the [...]
Russia plans to develop 5th-generation ‘stealth’ helicopters
A Russian helicopter company is planning to develop the world’s first fifth-generation combat helicopter, which experts say would be able to attack fighter jets and be invisible for radars, the Gazeta daily said on Thursday. “We are working on the concept of the fifth-generation combat helicopter,” the paper quoted the company’s CEO, Andrei Shibitov, as [...]
Production Starts on First UK F35 Lightning II Aircraft
SAMLESBURY, United Kingdom — Manufacturing work has started on the first F-35 Lightning II aircraft that will be delivered to the UK Ministry of Defence. Quentin Davies, UK Minister of Defence Equipment and Support, marked the occasion by signing the F-35 frame before it was loaded into the assembly jig at the BAE Systems site [...]
PAK-FA: Russia’s fifth-generation fighter T-50
MOSCOW: Russia’s fifth-generation fighter performed its maiden flight on Friday. The T-50 is the domestic name of Russia’s fifth-generation fighter plane which has been developed as the Advanced Front-Line Aviation Complex (PAK FA) for Russia’s Air Force. The project started its development by the Sukhoi design bureau since it won the tender in April 2002. [...]
Russia to start flight tests of 5th-generation fighter
KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR: A Russian deputy prime minister said Monday that flight tests of a fifth-generation fighter will start in Russia by the end of 2009. “By the end of this year, the plane will rise into the air and flight tests will begin,” Sergei Ivanov told journalists after a shipbuilding meeting in the Far East, adding [...]
F-35 JSF Brings 5th Generation Capabilities to the Navy
WASHINGTON: A Lockheed Martin executive said Friday that the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II will help meet the challenges of future forces across the range of military operations. “The F-35 was designed to operate and survive in high-threat battlespace defined by advanced surface-to-air missile systems, and while outnumbered by top-of-the-line 4th generation fighters – a [...]
Fifth-generation fighter to be developed in joint project
MOSCOW: The development of the fifth-generation jet fighter is one of the most widely discussed issues in Russia’s military. What’s more, with its potential involvement in developing the jet fighter, India, one of Russia’s long-standing partners in military technical cooperation, confirms its interest in Russia’s future project. The new jet fighter is being developed under [...]
Russia, Brazil To Cooperate On 5th Generation Fighter Program
MOSCOW: Russia continues to look for partners to help implement its fifth-generation fighter program, also known as PAK FA – Prospective (promising) Aircraft System of the Frontline Aviation. Apart from India, which has agreed to cooperate with Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), now working on the fifth-generation fighter program, Brazil could also join in. [...]
