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Monday, August 24, 2009

IAF tests its new fighter

Su-47 BerkutIndia began flight evaluations in the skies of Bangalore for its largest-ever military purchase of 126 multi-role fighter aircraft last week.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Moscow, officials from Russia's legendary Sukhoi Design Bureau and its Indian partner, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), finally decided that this November they would begin flight-testing the highly secretive prototype of a futuristic fifth generation fighter aircraft.

It is being developed under a joint technology and equity partnership between India and Russia.

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