MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s...
* 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.
* The Tikhomirov Institute of Instrument Design, which developed the Irbis radar for the Su-35BM Flanker, has been working on the T-50 radar. The new fighter"s radar and fire-control system will be designed on the basis of the Su-35BM"s systems.
* The new fighter"s exterior design was approved on December 10, 2004.
* Last summer, the fighter"s design was approved, and the prototype blueprints were delivered to the KNAAPO aircraft building company based in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where three experimental fighters will be built for testing.
* In February 2009, the first prototype was constructed. After the plane was successfully tested on the runway, a decision was made to
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