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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

India, Russia to have different versions of same fighter plane

The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) being jointly developed by India and Russia will look substantially different for the two countries.

While the Russian version will be a single-pilot fighter, the Indian variant will have a twin-seat configuration based on its operational doctrine which calls for greater radius of combat operations.

"The Indian FGFA is significantly different from the Rusisan aircraft because a second pilot means the addition of another dimension, development of wings and control surfaces," said Ashok Baweja, chairman of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), which is developing the aircraft alongwith Russia's Sukhoi design bureau.

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2/10/08 02:48

    How nice. The two countries are going to do a mod on the Su27 once again (Su 33, Su 35, Su 37) and give it a new name and call it fifth generation. They should have called it the sixth generation, that really would have brought the roof down.

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