5th-Generation Fighter PAK FA Ready For Flight Trials

Russia's fifth-generation PAK FA jet fighter is ready for a complete program of flight trials, say officials at KnAAPO.

KnAAPO, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Assn., which is based in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East, is the nation's largest aircraftmanufacturing company.

Sukhoi company officials have indicated that three jet prototypes completed preliminary on-land and in-flight activities.

The prototypes were used for test-bed strength tests, on-land...