Russia is developing a fifth-generation unmanned fighter jet and an entirely new missile defense system which will simultaneously engage several supersonic targets in space, it’s been revealed on the MAKS-2013 airshow.
The fifth-generation unmanned aircraft, weighing in at around 20 tons, takes after the T-50 fighter jet, with most of its characteristics modeled after it, Mikhail Pogosyan, president of Russia’s united aircraft-building corporation, told RIA Novosti on the MAKS-2013 show in Zhukovsky, just outside Moscow, which displayed the newest in air combat technology.
“We are working according to plans developed along with the Defense Ministry. At this stage this suggests further preliminary testing. The present stage is essentially in response to the technological breakthroughs now we have achieved inside the framework of the ‘fifth generation’ program,” Pogosyan told the Russian ITAR-TASS agency, in connection with the approaching drone.
With a fifth-generation PAK-FA heavy attack jet already developed and planned to go into service in 2016, Russian aviation can be seeking to the way forward for air combat, conducting research and development for aircraft that could dominate airspace by the mid-21st century.
The news comes at the heels of a Thursday announcement by the Russian aircraft construction corporation, which signed a $90 billion sort out the Defense Ministry. Under the contract, the ministry can have its technology and kit built and serviced by Russia’s aircraft builders for the following three years, Pogosyan said on the MAKS-2013 show.
National media reports that on top of the recent deal, another $3 billion contract has come into effect, stipulating, with the exception of the servicing of kit, that the Defense Ministry shall receive 65 new fighter jets by the top of 2013.
Another exciting development inside the Russian high-tech weapons market is the prospective 2017 launch of the promising S-500 anti-aircraft missile system. The Friday news comes courtesy of a top Ministry of Defense figure, talking to ITAR-TASS.
“A promising anti-aircraft missile system S-500 is being designed now,” the source said. “The Defense force could have it in 2017.” The special feature of the formidable new lineup is the flexibility to fasten directly to and have interaction multiple targets in space, never permitting them to reach Russian airspace.
Moscow have been making attempting leaps in combat technology – especially missile defense – given the uneasy international climate it finds itself in currently. The plan for a neater missile defense is an instantaneous answer to the United States’ idea for a missile shield in Europe, which it says is for defensive purposes against unpredictable regimes equivalent to Iran and North Korea. Russia isn’t feeling very secure with the proposed system to be so on the brink of its territories.
Aside from the pursuit of fifth-generation technologies, Russia can be actively developing an unmanned sixth generation aircraft, said a former Air Force commander. Unlike NATO allies who will use American F-35 5Gs, self-sufficiency is an absolute must for Russia, said the commander, so 6G evolution is inevitable.
With regard to missile defense, Russia is currently using the S-400 Triumph, which has a number of 400 kilometers. Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Military are to amass 28 systems from the present lineup over the subsequent 10 years.
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