The high cost of the plane, it's unproven technology, and limited Russian productive capacity make it a bad bet compared to the Flanker family, or (for those countries lucky enough to have a Club Membership) the F-35. With respect to other buyers, the Russians may eventually find export customers, but few seem interested at this point. The absence of the PAK FA (HAL FGFA in Indian terminology) will leave a major hole in the Indian Air Force for quite a long time. It remains unclear whether India will ever acquire a version of the PAK FA, or instead focus on indigenously developed aircraft (the distant AMCA project, which may result in a usable combat aircraft by 2030). For its part, we can expect that Pakistan will likely acquire J-31 stealth fighters from China, whether off the shelf or as part of some kind of joint production scheme. China has pushed the J-20 stealth fighter project to a stage competitive with the PAK FA, although we know less of the former’s capabilities than of the latter. The PAK FA plays a major role in India’s competition with China and Pakistan, its two major regional rivals. Theoretically, India is on the hook for roughly 150 fighters, and could purchase a hundred more on top of that. After months of haggling and disagreement, Russia agreed to cut development costs for the Indian version of the PAK FA. The PAK FA is nearly as important (conceptually, at least) to India’s aerospace future as to Russia, making the production issues particularly problematic. In part because of this, and in part because of Russia’s economic difficulties, the initial order has dropped to twelve (with more expected after the resolution of engine problems). However, the fighter continues to struggle with questions over cost and engine performance. In particular, the engines adopted for early aircraft do not provide sufficient thrust for the airframe, leaving the aircraft at a significant disadvantage compared to American fighters. Initial expectations projected the acquisition of 200 PAK FAs for Russia, 200 for India, and an unknown number for other countries.
Since then, Sukhoi has produced six prototypes, which have amassed considerable hours in flight testing. Altogether, the PAK FA appears to strongly resemble the F-22 in performance, with marginally less stealth and network capabilities, but potentially more room to grow.Īfter several years of development delays, the first T-50 (prototype designation) test flight happened in 2011. The PAK FA will also have sophisticated avionic systems, including datalink and a variety of electronic warfare components. Sukhoi promised to produce a high maneuverability stealth fighter with supercruise capabilities that could match or defeat Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor in air-to-air combat.
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Shame too, I was looking forward to an app like this.īut of course, there is one real question: which of these two look better? Courtesy of the RETRORIKA skin pack.Perception of this need resulted in the award of a new fighter contract to Sukhoi in 2002. You can of course send the page to another browser once you are happy with it, but anyone who wants a lightweight self-sustaining browser may want to look elsewhere. You cant see or use permission popups (e.g.
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You also can only watch full screen videos on Vimeo. You cannot do that here, as there is no tab system.
Now, typically when most people look for a browser, they want some multi-tab functionality or at least a history to go back and look at things. You can quickly turn the tracker blocker off too, or press the I for some FAQ’s. You can refresh, go forward(press your devices back button to go back) as well as use a bunch of options which makes me ask if Focus wants to be a Google in-app browser replacement. The URL (and the bin button) will only appear while you are at the top of the page, so if I googled bacon, for example, and scrolled down it would disappear with a satisfying shrinking animation. It just wipes everything and leaves you to it. Nice and simple, right? you just put in a search (or link) and go! So using Google as an example:Īs well as the obvious, there is always a button that takes you back to the home page in the form of a rubbish bin. So, you turn it off and get: Is that an Edge of tomorrow reference? Luckily, this option is toggle-able in the settings, labeled as “Stealth mode”. The app doesn’t let you take screenshots for privacy reasons. Well, rather than a new tab page, you get: Now when I first saw this, I thought “Why not just make this part of the default Firefox?” but then I remembered a good chunk of it is, which made me wonder what Focus did differently.
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