BY: IDRW NEWS NETWORK
Indian Air Force wants to induct Indo-Russian Built Pak-Fa aircraft by 2018 , move which will make India first Air force in South Asia to have a fifth generation Aircraft in its inventory . PAK-FA which made its first flight in early 2010 in Russia will have to carry out series of test before the production if the aircraft starts .
IAF version of Pak-Fa will be a Twin Seater aircraft with Indian Avionics and Mission computer on board , but the as per initial agreement between two countries ,first 50 aircraft’s will be based on Single Seater Pak-Fa with Russian Avionics and Sub-system and later 200 Indian version of Pak-Fa will delivered .
This agreement was put in place since Indian Version of Pak-Fa will require some time to mature and to hit production line ,since it will be Twin seater aircraft they will be changes to the airframe and changes in avionics too , in return Russia has agreed to purchase 50 Indian version of Pak-fa .
IAF recently also issued ASR for the Development of Indigenous 5th generation Advance Medium combat Aircraft (AMCA) which will be based on 25 ton category. first flight of which is expected by 2018 .
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