What has Russia done with the Sukhoi T-50 Stealth fighter jet?”
Russia test-flies its response to US Raptor stealth fighter By Vladimir Isachenkov (CP) – 2 hours ago MOSCOW — Russia’s first stealth fighter intended to match the latest U.S. design made a successful maiden flight Friday, giving a boost to the country’s efforts to modernize its rusting Soviet-built arsenals and retain lucrative export market. The Sukhoi T-50’s flight comes nearly two decades after the first prototype of the U.S. F-22 Raptor took to the air, and Russian officials said it will take another five years for the new jet to enter air force service. Still, the flight marked a major step in Russia’s efforts to burnish the faded glory of its once-proud aviation industries and strengthen a beleaguered military. The sleek twin-engined jet closely resembling the Raptor flew for 47-minutes from an airfield at Sukhoi’s production plant in the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Friday. Development of the so-called fifth-generation fighter has been veiled in secrecy and no imag
