Pak FA Russia India Brazil joint Venture

The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) being jointly developed by India and Russia will look substantially different for the two countries. While the Russian version will be a single-pilot fighter, the Indian variant will have a twin-seat configuration based on its operational doctrine which calls for greater radius of combat operations. The program is initiated to develop a fifth generation fighter aircraft to fill a role similar to that of Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the world’s first fifth-generation fighter jets.

“The Indian FGFA is significantly different from the Russian aircraft because a second pilot means the addition of another dimension, development of wings and control surfaces,” said Ashok Baweja, chairman of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), which is developing the aircraft along with Russia’s Sukhoi design bureau.

Speaking to media persons at the eighth Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation (IRIGC), Baweja said that both sides had moved closer towards identifying the key areas of participation in the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft Programme (FGFA) for which both countries had signed a joint agreement in 2007. India would bring into play its expertise in compos

Brazil in the project

In April 16 of 2008, the Brazilian newspaper, Correio Braziliense, reported that Brazil just joined the PAK FA project to fulfill the failure of Project F-X. Brazil’s Strategic Affairs Minister Roberto Mangabeira Unger told reporters the agreement will lead to the development of fifth-generation jet fighters that are built using sophisticated engineering, such as composite materials, stealth technology and advanced radar. The foreseeable total cost for the program is about $20 billion USD, to be divided equally among Russia, Brazil and India, all the participants in the program. The unit cost, lower than those of European fighters of 4th generation, will be approximately $80 million.

Dmitri Medvedev, president of Russia will take advantage of his travel to the meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to be held in Lima, Peru between November 16 and 23 to visit Brazil and sign the three party military cooperation agreement. This news was confirmed by Roberto Mangabeira, Itamaraty and Russian Foreign ministry. The three party agreement will cover technological cooperation, protection of intellectual property and security of information. These would complement the agreement signed in April 15 by Mangabeira and Valentin Alekseevitch, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Such agreement would be followed by Brazil’s participation in the PAK FA’s development and Russia proposed also selling the Su-35 for 50 millions euros (with full technology transfer).

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