Thaindian News

By Meena Kar
Moscow, Feb 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The fifth generation fighter plane of Russia, Sukhoi T-50 had been successful in completing its maiden flight this Friday. Russian experts have planned to launch several high profile weapons for revamping their artillery but have not been successful and so the test flight of this fighter plane had immense significance for them. According to the reports, the Russians, thrilled by the result of the test flight, consider that their Sukhoi T-50 would be able to challenge F-22, the fighter plane of United States. The success of the maiden flight also gave them the hope that it can be put to service in 2015.

Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Russia was excited after the new fighter plane completed its maiden flight and referred to it as one of the ‘remarkable’ events. He said that the flight of the new Sukhoi T-50 is a great achievement for them but they have to improve on its engine. The spokesperson of Sukhoi said that the first flight had met their expectations. Everyone was satisfied with the performance of Sukhoi T-50, which was originally scheduled to embark on its maiden flight in 2007.

Several technical problems had earlier prevented the test flight of the fighter plane. However, it had finally made the flight last week. The news of the test flight made people curious about its feature but the officials did not provide much details of its designs and specifications. However, there were reports indicating that Russia had collaborated with Indian experts for making the new fighter plane that was in the sky for around forty-seven minutes.