{"id":197943,"date":"2007-12-30T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/30\/indo-russian-collaboration-on-paf-fa-t-50\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T02:24:00","slug":"indo-russian-collaboration-on-paf-fa-t-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/30\/indo-russian-collaboration-on-paf-fa-t-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Russian Collaboration on PAF FA (T-50)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This plane is intended to replace the Su-27 series, and it now appears that<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ab240ccf3-2f4a-4ca6-b5a8-e4098e57413e\">Russia and India are in a 50-50 workshare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what this would mean, though the Indians are looking to use this aircraft on their carrier.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The company-to-company discussions ffollow an October 2007 intergovernmental agreement between Russia and India signed an on the cooperative development of a fifth-generation multi-role fighter. \u201cThis will be 50\/50 cooperation in terms of intellectual property, resources and money,\u201d said [Sukhoi CEO Mikhail] Pogosyan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that the Indian variants will have entirely Indian avionics, which is likely the result of Indian industrial policy.<\/p>\n<p>In developing independent avionics, they may have an opening with upgrades of the aircraft sold to 3rd countries.<\/p>\n<p>As to the 50\/50 split, my guess is that this is more of offset numbers than real sharing.  This is the crown jewels of Russian aerospace.<\/p>\n<p>A quick note, the fact that the project is called the T-50 means that it has some variant of a delta wing. Were it swept wing, it would be something like S-50, which is why Sukhoi&#8217;s forward swept wing demonstrator was called the S-37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plane is intended to replace the Su-27 series, and it now appears thatRussia and India are in a 50-50 workshare. I&#8217;m not entirely sure what this would mean, though the Indians are looking to use this aircraft on their carrier. The company-to-company discussions ffollow an October 2007 intergovernmental agreement between Russia and India signed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197943"}],"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=197943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}