The Soviets…er Russians unveil their fifth generation fighter:
Stealth for the Other Guys
An event that many thought might never come finally arrived on Jan. 29. On that day, the world for the first time witnessed a flight of a Russian stealth fighter.
It was Sukhoi’s PAK FA aircraft. The event was wrapped in secrecy on a scale worthy of the Soviet Union. There were no advance photos of the fighter. There was no advance announcement of the flight. There were no foreigners on hand to witness the 47-minute event. Only after the flight’s successful completion did Moscow even acknowledge it at all.
At that point, though, Sukhoi and Kremlin officials held back nothing. They went all out in their praise of the fighter and its purported capabilities. The subtext was that, finally, someone had broken the US monopoly on low-observable aircraft.
Air Force Magazine article with photo _>
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