The fifth generation airplane project has undergone defense of an engineering mock-up ((PROSHEL ZASHCHITU TEKHNICHESKOGO MAKETA)), General-Colonel Aleksandr Zelin, temporarily acting air force commander-in-chief, reported to journalists at events dedicated to Air Defense Forces Day.
“The fifth generation airplane project has undergone defense of the engineering mock-up. Right now it is at the stage of creation of the working design documentation,” he said.
The general added that “time for the airplane’s creation is not changing, the customer’s decisions are not changing, and those time periods which had been established, we are operating within them.” Planning operations for creation of the new airplane are on-going, the acting CinC added.
Earlier, Russia’s defense minister had announced that the fifth generation airplane will be created by 2009.
Source: 06.04.07, RIA-Novosti
Does this mean a hand built prototype has been accepted for series production? Thats how the RRJ project is being done, they are piecing together a single hand built prototype now.
http://www.royfc.com/cgi-bin/today/acft_news.cgi


