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Russia's 5th-generation bomber PAK DA could be delivered to Russian Air Force by 2025.
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5th generation bomber PAK DA will be delivered to the Russian army between
2023 and 2025, announced Wednesday in Moscow the commander of the Russian
long-range Air Force Anatoly Jikharev. "We are modernizing all
aircraft, new weapons arrive. We shall create the future PAK DA bomber",
he said. "Its first test flights will begin between 2019 and
2020. Deliveries of these aircraft will begin in the army between 2023
and 2025," said General Jikharev. |
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In 2014 Andrey Boginsky said that Russia was attempting to get Chinese
investment in the project. In April 2014, Mikhail Pogosyan, head of Russia's
UAC, announced that the Tupolev design bureau had finalised the design
of the PAK-DA and that the project was moving to the intermediate phase
- i.e. completion of the design and construction of a prototype. In order to replace the aging strategic bombers Tu-160 and Tu-95 bomber, the PAK DA will have a low radar signature and will be able to overcome the modern air defense. According to previous information, it will have a hypersonic weapon. The aircraft is designed by the Russian company Tupolev design office. |
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