Sukhoi Pak Fa T-50 Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet PhotosThe T-50 Fighter Jet, developed under the program Future Aviation System for Tactical Air Force (PAK-FA) at the Sukhoi OKB, is Russia’s 1st new major combat aircraft designed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Since the 1980s, the Russian Air Force has relied on aircraft that are currently obsolete.
An operational fighter based on the T-50 are put into service probably as soon as 2015, turning into the Russian Air Force’s 1st stealth fighter that features low-observable technology that creates it nearly impossible to detect with radar.
Like its U.S. counterpart, the F-22 Raptor, the T-50 are going to be able to cruise at supersonic speeds and be capable of pulling high-G maneuvers that older aircraft cannot match due to thrust-vectoring exhaust nozzles and a hi-tech flight control system.
