{"id":181097,"date":"2016-09-30T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/30\/no-6\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T23:19:00","slug":"no-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/30\/no-6\/","title":{"rendered":"No"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russia is claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/russia-may-start-producing-t-50-fighters-in-late-2017-68195\/\">its T-50 stealth fighter will enter production late next year<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A contract for the serial production of the fifth-generation T-50 PAK FA fighter jet at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant is planned to be signed before the end of 2017, Governor of Russia\u2019s Khabarovsk Territory Vyacheslav Shport said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Russian Aerospace Force Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bondarev said earlier that the serial production of the T-50 fighter jet would begin in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>According to the commander, the PAK FA fighter jet will be made operational with the Aerospace Force in 2017 as well. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pixie dust.<\/p>\n<p>They are still not flying the aircraft with its intended power plant, and they are suggesting that it will enter service in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the current prototypes are still hand built.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping up to mass production from this is a monumental task, particularly given the large portion of the skin and airframe made of composites, and the need to maintain tight tolerances to reduce radar signature.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the first for a mass produced Russian aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>It can be done, but it cannot be done in just 1 year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is claiming that its T-50 stealth fighter will enter production late next year: A contract for the serial production of the fifth-generation T-50 PAK FA fighter jet at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant is planned to be signed before the end of 2017, Governor of Russia\u2019s Khabarovsk Territory Vyacheslav Shport said. \u2026\u2026\u2026 Russian Aerospace Force &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[772,778,809],"class_list":["post-181097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-defense-procurement","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}