{"id":3028,"date":"2018-02-09T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:26:33","slug":"russias-defence-minister-to-ink-contract-for-12-su-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/russias-defence-minister-to-ink-contract-for-12-su-57\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA\u2019S DEFENCE MINISTER TO INK CONTRACT FOR 12 SU-57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1149\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Sukhoi_T-50_Beltyukov.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Diplomat<\/p>\n<p>By Franz-Stefan Gady<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) is expected to sign a contract for a pre-production batch of 12 Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jets, Russia\u2019s first indigenously designed and built fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are buying Su-57 jets for test combat use. First stage state trials are over,\u201d he told journalists, he said, according to a TASS news agency report. \u201cThis year, we will sign a contract for the first batch of 12 Su-57 fighter jets for the Armed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Su-57 is a multirole, single seat, twin-engine air superiority\/deep air support fighter developed under the PAK-FA fifth-generation fighter program. The Su-57, which took to the skies for the first time in 2010, will replace the Russian Air Force\u2019s existing stock of MiG-29s and Su-27s in the coming decade.<\/p>\n<p>Russian efforts to field the country\u2019s first fifth-generation fighter aircraft in the not so distant future are hampered by delays in designing and building a new turbofan jet engine for the Su-57. In December 2017, the aircraft made a first flight with a new engine prototype with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/02\/russias-defense-ministry-to-ink-contract-for-12-stealth-fighter-jets\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Diplomat By Franz-Stefan Gady The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) is expected to sign a contract for a pre-production batch of 12 Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jets, Russia\u2019s first indigenously designed and built fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday. \u201cWe are buying Su-57 jets for test&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/09\/russias-defence-minister-to-ink-contract-for-12-su-57\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIA\u2019S DEFENCE MINISTER TO INK CONTRACT FOR 12 SU-57<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[872,1797,1796],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-pak-fa","tag-russian-ministry-of-defense-mod","tag-sukhoi-su-57","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}