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Russia's Secret New Fighter Jet Is Officially Out in the Open
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After a week of entertaining hype, Russia officially revealed its second fifth-generation fighter jet. The “Checkmate” fighter is designed to go head to head with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, both in the skies and the export market. The plane’s fire sale price and rapid development schedule, however, seem almost too good to be true.
Russia and United Aerospace Company, an umbrella corporation that includes the famed Mikoyan-Guervich (MiG) and Sukhoi design bureaus, unveiled the fighter jet at the MAKS-2021 air show in Moscow on Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin on hand to personally inspect the aircraft. Here’s a video of the event.
The fighter jet features an unusually pointy nose and an engine intake below the cockpit. The Checkmate also has an internal weapons bay designed to preserve its anti-radar shaping and can carry both air-to-air and air-to-ground ordnance, including both infrared- and radar-guided air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground and anti-ship missiles, guided and unguided bombs, and unguided rockets.
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