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India-Russia FGFA Delayed

: Feb 26, 2014 - : 12:54 am

India’s joint project with Russia to co-develop Fifth General Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) has been delayed, though the preliminary design phase of the project was completed in June, 2013.
Last year, India had expressed concern over the country’s work share in its collaboration with Russia, as its work share in FGFA research and development and other aspects of the multi-billion dollar project at the moment is only around 15%, even though New Delhi is bearing 50% of the cost. The total program is expected to cost India about 1.5 trillion rupees ($25 billion).
India and Russia signed a preliminary design contract worth $295 million for the FGFA in December 2010. Currently the final design and research and development contracts are under negotiation between the two countries.
These talks are expected to be concluded this year, Defense Minister A. K. Antony says.
The final design contract is pegged at $11 billion, with India and Russia sharing $5.5 billion each towards the cost of design, infrastructure build-up, prototype development and flight-testing. Each fighter is expected to cost over $100 million.
The IAF intends to buy around 300 stealthy FGFAs, made jointly by Russia’s Sukhoi and HAL.
“We are making sure that the entire IPR is available to us,” HAL chairman R.K. Tyagi tells AD&D.
During the DefExpo in the first week of February, Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin said his country has fulfilled all of its obligations under the FGFA program.
” Russian-Indian military-technical cooperation under this program develops as scheduled, and we have not received any official complaints from the Indian side,” he said. “All negotiations take place under the agreements reached earlier.”
The aircraft is a derivative project from the Russian single-seat Sukhoi T-50 or PAK FA being developed for the IAF. Currently, four T-50 prototypes have performed more than 200 test flights since January 2010.
The Russian air force plans to begin inducting the fighter in 2015.
HAL is scheduled to get three Russian prototypes for re-design and testing in 2015, 2016 and 2017, and the state-run aircraft maker plans to hand over the first series-produced aircraft to the IAF in 2017.
The IAF is still hoping that the aircraft will be ready for induction by 2022.

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