Our aim is to make the cost per flight hour as low as possible, to make it economical not only to buy but also to operate,” said Slyusar. The cost is extremely low when compared to F-35, which comes at a price of over $75 million. Read More: CHINA UNVEILS ITS J-20 FIGHTER JET AT AIR SHOW Moscow expected demand from nations in the Middle East, Asia Pacific region and Latin America, he said. Rostec’s chief, Sergei Chemezov, said it would cost $25 million to $30 million, the RIA news agency reported.
Rostec, Russia’s state aerospace and defence conglomerate, was quoted as saying by a Reuters report that the plane was hard to detect and would have low operating costs. Capable of continuous supersonic flight, the aircraft flies at 1,180 miles per hour at its top speed and can share data with other fighters in the air. This includes both infrared and radar-guided air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground and anti-ship missiles, guided and unguided bombs, and unguided rockets.Ĭheckmate has been developed as a short takeoff-and-landing fighter jet that also allows it to operate from aircraft carriers and can travel up to 1,500 kilometers in a single sortie, while loaded with weapons and payload. Marketed under the project name Checkmate, it is smaller and cheaper than Russia’s latest Su-57 two-engine fighter, has stealth capabilities and other advanced technology. The Checkmate has an internal weapons bay designed to preserve its anti-radar shaping and is capable of carrying both air-to-air and air-to-ground ordnance. It has one engine, can fly at Mach 2, has a range of 3,000 kilometers and can carry 7,400 kilograms and sports a smokin’ hot design.
Many of its new weapons are still based on Soviet-era technology from the Cold War. Under Putin, it has invested heavily in military aircraft and new armaments, both for its own armed forces and also to boost export revenue from weapon sales.
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Russia has successfully produced prototypes of new weapons systems in recent years but has sometimes struggled to move to serial production. Russia plans to produce 300 of the aircraft over 15 years once serial production begins, he said.
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