Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA

[Holycrusader]

Weather sucks. Winter is really cold this year... Maybe they should wait with that flight to spring?

[Flamming_Python]

hmm this is pretty gay

[void]

Weather sucks. Winter is really cold this year... Maybe they should wait with that flight to spring?

Cold is not the issue, Cloud cover, visibility, and wind is the issue, in that order. If its a clear sunny day, but the temp is -30, I think they would still fly it.

[lbprnstars99]

welp.. see you guys in 2011 lol.. nah im kiddn, hopefully the weather ill get better

[xav]

Come on! I am sure it is all weather/day/night mission capable

[asch]

add here 98% humidity. Far East, baby.

[Flyboy77]

Come on! I am sure it is all weather/day/night mission capable

It will be but we don't want Photos like this.

[hay_txa]

[strategist]

Russian 5th-generation fighter to perform maiden flight Jan 29.


Russia is expected to hold the first test of its fifth-generation fighter on Friday, a source at Russia's largest aircraft building enterprise said on Thursday.
"The [test] flight was initially scheduled for Thursday, but has been postponed," the source at the Gagarin KNAAPO company, a subsidiary of Russia's major aircraft holding Sukhoi, said.
Russia's only known fifth-generation project is Sukhoi's PAK FA and the current prototype is the T-50. It is designed to compete with the U.S. F-22 Raptor (so far the world's only fifth-generation fighter aircraft) and the F-35 Lightning II, but has yet to take to the skies.
The PAK FA is believed to possess advanced avionics, stealth capability, a ferry range of 4,000 to 5,500 km, and endurance of 3.3 hrs; it is armed with next-generation air-to-air, air-to-surface, and air-to-ship missiles, and has two 30-mm cannons.
Russia has been developing its newest fighter since the 1990s. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin earlier said the combat aircraft would enter service with the Air Force in 2015.
MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100128/157701528.html

[Boyko_Borisov]

I'll be seriously pissed off if I wake up next morning and there is no footage of Pak-Fa.

[kalerab]

I'll be seriously pissed off if I wake up next morning and there is no footage of Pak-Fa.

The take off should took place at 10am (dunno is local or Moscow time) from what I understand and there was a fog on KnAAPO "before the lunch" (according to groomi), so that is likely the reason for postponment. And according to forecast tommor should be a clear sky across the Far East till evening so hopes high.

[metberkut]

The take off should took place at 10am (dunno is local or Moscow time)

Local, obviously. Take a look at the time zone Amure is in...

....there was a fog on KnAAPO "before the lunch" (according to groomi), so that is likely the reason for postponment.

No, he said the weather was nice and clear later. The reason to the delay was a small bug, in something, somewhere.

Better late than sorry if you ask me.

[Stonewall71]

one more day...i hope is just ONE MORE DAY .....

[ayanami_tard]

Russian 5th-generation fighter to perform maiden flight Jan 29.


Russia is expected to hold the first test of its fifth-generation fighter on Friday, a source at Russia's largest aircraft building enterprise said on Thursday.
"The [test] flight was initially scheduled for Thursday, but has been postponed," the source at the Gagarin KNAAPO company, a subsidiary of Russia's major aircraft holding Sukhoi, said.
Russia's only known fifth-generation project is Sukhoi's PAK FA and the current prototype is the T-50. It is designed to compete with the U.S. F-22 Raptor (so far the world's only fifth-generation fighter aircraft) and the F-35 Lightning II, but has yet to take to the skies.
The PAK FA is believed to possess advanced avionics, stealth capability, a ferry range of 4,000 to 5,500 km, and endurance of 3.3 hrs; it is armed with next-generation air-to-air, air-to-surface, and air-to-ship missiles, and has two 30-mm cannons.
Russia has been developing its newest fighter since the 1990s. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin earlier said the combat aircraft would enter service with the Air Force in 2015.
MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100128/157701528.html

i'm going to stay awake till some mpn member post the darn pic

[cmc]

i'm going to stay awake till some mpn member post the darn pic

Yeah... I hope that works out for you...