Su-57, began flights with the latest weapons on Board
MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Russian fifth-generation fighter, the su-57 started flying with aviation stredstv defeat of the new generation. This was the General Director of Corporation “Tactical missiles” (tactical missiles Corporation) Boris Obnosov in an interview published by TASS “Bulletin of military-technical cooperation”.
“The work is hard. The whole complex of high-precision weapons for this aircraft, and as vnutrifyuzelyazhnyh, and on the external load, is developed by enterprises of the Corporation. We moved on to practical flying, I think that in the near future will see the result,” — said Obnosov, answering a question on the progress of the air weapons for the fifth generation fighter, the su-57.
According to him, the protocols of information interaction with almost all types of weapons agreed. “Not far off, and the main work starts. This also applies to products “of the Rainbow,” and products of “Vympel”, head of products and platform in the Queen,” added the CEO of tactical missiles Corporation.
Su-57 (PAK FA) for the first time rose into the air in 2010. As previously reported, on December 5, he made the first flight with the new engine. Now it is called the engine of the first stage — 117S, the new engine has not yet received the names and conventionally referred to as “the engine of the second stage”.