{"id":3479,"date":"2010-02-02T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2010-02-01T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:22:49","slug":"russia-tests-5th-generation-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/russia-tests-5th-generation-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Tests 5th Generation Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several news reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/01\/ap_russian_fighter_test_012910\/\">announced<\/a> that Russia has tested a fighter intended to be in the class of the F-22. A picture in the Associated Press article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,584241,00.html?test=latestnews\">published by Fox News<\/a> shows the Russian T-50 with what is a fairly common Sukhoi profile (elongated fuselage and &#8220;goose neck&#8221; raised cockpit).\u00a0 The aircraft appears to be twin-engine and twin-tail.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, fielding an aircraft that is supposed to rival the F-22 is a poor goal, since the Raptor is more than 20 years old. Skeptics said the T-50 was a pretty airframe with no notable avionics or even significantly updated engines.\u00a0 Even more ironically, the Russian government is facing the same criticism as the US Defense Department did over the F-22:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no mission and no adversary for such plane,&#8221; [Alexander] Konovalov [of the Institute of Strategic Assessment] said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would seem the challenges of defense technology and acquisition know no\u00a0political boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several news reports announced that Russia has tested a fighter intended to be in the class of the F-22. A picture in the Associated Press article published by Fox News shows the Russian T-50 with what is a fairly common Sukhoi profile (elongated fuselage and &#8220;goose neck&#8221; raised cockpit).\u00a0 The aircraft appears to be twin-engine and twin-tail. Oddly, fielding an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2,45,156,155],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-raptor","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}