Russia and India agree preliminary design for FGFA fighter

Russian and Indian officials have agreed the preliminary design for the Sukhoi/Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), Russian state media reported on 10 January.

Design of the export variant of the Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA combat aircraft has now been completed, the Sputnik news agency quoted Andrey Marshankin, the regional director of international cooperation at the united Russian-Indian aircraft manufacturing company, as saying.

As noted by Marshankin, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is still pressing for the FGFA (also now referred to as the Prospective Multi-Role Fighter [PMF] by India) to be a twin-seat jet, instead of the single-seat layout of the PAK-FA.

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