First Test Starts For Sukhoi T-50’s New Engine

Credit: T-50: Sukhoi
MOSCOW—Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC) has performed the first ground test start of the new engine for Sukhoi’s T-50 fifth-generation fighter. Flight trials with the new powerplant are expected to begin in late 2017. The new engine, dubbed Izdelie 30 (Item 30), is being developed by the...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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