Russia Test-Flies Stealth Fighters

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(1) Russia draws back veil of secrecy with peek at future fighter. RIA
Novosti, Jan. 29, 2010.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100129/157715872.html
("could become a new key item in Russia's arms exports in the future"--
sometime after 2015)

(2) FACTBOX: Russia's fifth-generation fighter T-50 (PAK FA). RIA Novosti,
Jan. 29, 2010.
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100129/157717728.html

Quote:

"The combat aircraft is fitted with 117S (upgraded AL-31) turbofan engines
from the Russian aircraft engine manufacturer Saturn.

"The jet can use a take-off strip of just 300-400 meters, and perform
sustained supersonic flight at speeds over 2,000 km/h, including repeated in
-flight refueling. The highly-maneuverable plane has a range of about 5,500
kilometers.

(3) Russia Tests 5th Generation Fighter Jet. Associated Press. Jan. 29, 2010
(video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHzdnrk92eU

(4) New Russian stealth fighter makes first flight. Reuters, Jan. 29, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60S0UW20100129
, which states:
(a) "Russia's main television networks led news programs with reports of the
flight and showed footage of the needle-nosed, camouflage-painted plane
taking off from a snow-lined airstrip at a Sukhoi factory in Komsomolsk-on-
Amur, in Russia's Far East.

Apparently the AP clip is the same as that described in (a).

(b) "In a statement on the company website sukhoi.org, Sukhoi director
Mikhail Pogosyan said the company planned to develop its fifth-generation
fighter program further with India, its biggest client for existing planes.

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