According to report prepared by Pierre Tran and Vivek Raghuvanshi for defensenews.com, claims that India and Russia have agreed to work on 5th-generation fighter aircraft based on Su-35, new aircraft which both countries have agreed on will be a reconfigured as Su-35 dubbed as Su-35S and have termed it as 5th generation fighter jet.
Su-35 is classified as 4++ Generation fighter jet, Class which comes close to a 5th-generation fighter aircraft, minus Internal weapons bay and Special Stealth Coating for minimum radar cross section (RCS) and next generation Avionics and weapons systems.
Article was seen quoting Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov but report does not mention what will happen to FGFA 5th-generation fighter aircraft Project which India and Russia were in talks to be developed from Russian variant of Pak-FA aircraft developed by Sukhoi Bureau , nor mentions if it will replace MMRCA or FGFA Program.
Article also fails to highlight if India and Russia have agreed to develop low cost low level Stealthy Su-35 which will use fifth-generation fighter technologies to reduce its radar cross-section (RCS) to achieve level of stealth and will have conformal weapons bays (CWB) on similar line of to Boeing’s F-15SE Silent Eagle program or will be a proper 5th generation fighter aircraft incorporating all stealth features of 5th generation fighter technologies seen in Proper 5th generation fighter aircrafts like F-35 and F-22.
Report also says that Russia already has made the presentation to Indian officials who have agreed to be on board new aircraft project making India first country who has agreed to purchase new aircraft which will be manufactured in India. idrw.org does not possess any information from its sources to confirm or deny such news report, we will report back after we get some information on it.
SOURCE : http://idrw.org/
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