The mysterious Russian single-engine fighter resembles the American F-16 Fighting Falcon and can enjoy popular with foreign customers in the future, not yet created aircraft in the American magazine Popular Mechanics.
A similar conclusion in the publication came, paying attention to the post blog BMPD, published in LiveJournal, which shows a snapshot with a fragment of the model of an unknown project of the fighter on the desktop of the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov. “
In the journal, it is assumed that in this case we are talking about a one-moving fighter, about the creation of which RIA Novosti reported in May, referring to a source in the aircraft manufacturer.
The publication writes that an unimprovant fighter is reminded by one-moving F-16 Fighting Falcon on the air intake in Russia. “Single-engine fighters are also helpful – they can be sold well abroad. The Russian version [also single-engine] F-35 Lightning II may well be popular if it is cheap and economical during operation,” the magazine assures.
In December 2020, the general director of Rostech Sergei Chemezov said that in the state corporation “the creation of a combat aviation system of the future in a light and middle class”, which “can be a universal platform, in manotable and unmanned versions”.
In April of the same year, the Joint Aviation Corporation reported that work began on the creation of a new platform of operational-tactical aviation, on the basis of which the development of a light fighter is planned.