인도, 5세대 스텔스 전투기 (FGFA) 250대 구입 계획...

 

인도가 250억불의 예산으로 5세대 스텔스 전투기 (FGFA, Fifth-Generation Fighter Aircraft) 250대를 확보할 계획이라는

인도 국내 언론 기사를 아래 소개 합니다.

 

FGFA 는 러시아 Sukhoi 社가 개발 중인 PAK-FA (T-50) 5세대 스텔스 전투기를 기반으로 인도가 요구하는 기능이 추가

될 예정으로 알려져 있습니다. 아래 기사에 의하면, 금년 12월로 예정된 러시아 Medvedev 대통령의 인도 방문 기간 중

공동개발에 서명할 것이라 합니다.

 

사실 인도와 러시아는 지난 3월 러시아 Putin 총리의 인도 방문시 FGFA 공동개발과 관련된 공식 조인식을 가질 것으로

예상한 바 있습니다만, 당시에는 양국 총리간 기자회견을 통한 구두로 FGFA 개발에 합의하였다는 발표만 하였습니다.

 

FGFA 가 양국간에 예정대로 진행이 된다면, 2017년부터는 실전배치가 가능할 것이며, 1기당 조달비용은 약 1억불 내외

로 예상 한다고 합니다.

 

인도 공군은 향후 FGFA 250대를 주력 기종으로 MRCA 126대, Su-30MKI 270대 그리고 인도 자체 개발 경공격기 (LCA)

Tejas 120대로 하는 공군 전력을 구성할 계획이라 하며, 현재 약 50%에 이르는 노후 항공기 비율을 2015년경에는 20%

수준으로 낮추겠다고 합니다.

 

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India to spend over $25 billion to induct 250 5th-gen stealth fighters

Economic Times of India, 10/05/2010

Author : Rajat Pandit

(c) 2010 The Times of India Group. All rights reserved.

 

NEW DELHI: India will eventually spend over $25 billion to induct 250 advanced stealth fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), on way to being co-developed with Russia, in what will be the country's biggest-ever defence project.

 

With a potent mix of super-manoeuvrability and supersonic cruising ability, long-range strike and high-endurance air defence capabilities, each FGFA will cost upwards of Rs 450 crore or around $100 million.

 

This will be in addition to the huge investment to be made in co-developing FGFA with cash-strapped Russia, as also the huge infrastructure required to base, operate and maintain such jets in India.

 

"We are looking to induct 200 to 250 FGFA in phases from 2017 onwards,'' confirmed IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik on Monday. As reported by TOI earlier, New Delhi and Moscow are looking to ink the FGFA preliminary design contract when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev comes visiting here in December.

 

Under intense negotiations for the last four-five years, the FGFA project will also figure in the talks between defence minister A K Antony and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov on October 8.

 

Though the Indian FGFA will based on the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA, which flew for the first time this January at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur facility in Siberia, it will be built to IAF's specifications. It's already being touted as superior to the American F/A-22 `Raptor', the world's only operational FGFA as of now.

 

ACM Naik said the 30-tonne FGFA will be a "swing-role fighter, with very advanced avionics, stealth to increase survivability, enhanced lethality, 360 degree situational awareness, smart weapons, data-links, high-end mission computers'' and the like.

 

Along with 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft, which India plans to acquire in a $10.4 billion project, 270 Sukhoi-30MKIs contracted from Russia for around $12 billion and 120 indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, the FGFA will be the mainstay of India's air combat fleet for the foreseeable future.

 

Even as the Army revises its war doctrine to factor in the worst-case scenario of a simultaneous two-front war with Pakistan and China, is IAF also preparing for the same?

 

"Our modernisation plans are based on the four pillars of `see, reach, hit and protect'...We prepare for a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, multi-front war,'' said ACM Naik.

 

"But our approach is capability-based, not adversary-specific. Our modernisation drive is in tune with our nation's aspirations,'' he said, adding that India's strategic interests stretched "from Hormuz Strait to Malacca Strait and beyond''.

 

To a volley of questions on China and Pakistan, IAF chief said, "All neighbours, from the smallest to the largest, have to be watched with caution...Their capabilities have to be assessed...Anything that can upset the growth of our nation is a matter of concern.''

 

With the new planned inductions in the pipeline, IAF's obsolescence rate will come down to 20% by 2014-15 from the current 50% or so. "But this does not mean that we are not fully capable of defending the country from any air or space threat at the moment...We are,'' said ACM Naik.

 

 

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