Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov earlier this year had voiced hope that the new fighter could be sold to India, Vietnam and African nations, adding that foreign customers are expected to order at least 300 such aircraft.
It can fly at a speed of 1.8-2 times the speed of sound, has a range of 3,000 kilometres and a payload of 7,400 kilograms, the jet’s makers said. The prospective warplane, marketed under the project name Checkmate, has one engine and is designed to be smaller and cheaper than Russia’s latest Su-57 two-engine stealth fighter, also built by Sukhoi. They said the new design could be converted to an unpiloted version and a two-seat model. Its makers said the prototype is set to make its maiden flight in 2023 and deliveries could start in 2026. Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi developed the new fighter under the LTS program, a Russian acronym for the Light Tactical Aircraft. The fighter jet was unveiled by Russia and United Aerospace Company - an umbrella corporation that includes the famed Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) and Sukhoi design bureaus. The Checkmate is a fifth-generation light fighter jet, developed by the Sukhoi designer bureau (part of state corporation Rostec) and first unveiled at the MAKS-2021 international aviation and space salon in the Moscow Region in July. "The Komsomolsk-on-Amur plant has started building several Checkmate at the same time," Slyusar announced. Meanwhile, simultaneous production of several cutting-edge fighter jets has already been started by a plant in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia's Far East region, according to the official.
RUSSIAN CHECKMATE FIGHTER JET SERIAL
"The first flight of the fifth-generation fighter Checkmate is planned for 2023, serial production - in 2026," Slyusar said at the Dubai Airshow in the United Arab Emirates.
Russia will begin mass-producing its new single-engine, fifth-generation fighter jet Checkmate in 2026, Yury Slyusar, the general director of the Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), said on Sunday.
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