(robert arndt) wrote in message . com...
ess (phil hunt) wrote in message
Are you sure you have the information right? The PAK-FA is supposed
to look something like this:

http://www.military.cz/russia/air/mi.../MiG-LFI_1.jpg

IIRC, it was firmly established that the final product would NOT have
the Su-47s swept-forward wings and the first flight not until 2009.

Rob


That was a proposed design for when Mig was also competing for the
advanced fighter. Sukhoy was chosen as the primary developer, although
Mig will help with parts of the new fighter. The LFI was to be a light
fighter (in the JSF class) with the Russians also building a heavier
model (in the Su-27 class) but due to the tight budget, a
middle-weight fighter was chosen to be headed by Sukhoy (probably more
than anything due to the fact that Sukhoy is monetarily doing better
than the Mig company) and the program was renamed the PAK-FA. It will
be bigger than the proposed LFI but smaller than the Su-27. A
"possible" design for the new T-50 may be something like shown here
but bigger:

http://www.aeronautics.ru/img/img2004/lfs_001.jpg

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