Wanna Fight Russia’s New MiG-41 a Super 6th Generation Fighter

mig-41 russia wants to build a super sixth generation fighter [Music] to protect its vast airspace russia relies on the powerful long-range and speedy mccoyan mig-31 foxhound but while moscow continues to upgrade the venerable mach 2.83 capable interceptor the jets have not been produced since 1994. while russia's current fleet of mig-31s will likely be able to serve into the 2030s the kremlin will eventually have to develop a replacement indeed the kremlin has funded some preliminary work on developing a successor to the venerable foxhound that is tentatively being called the mig-41 there are some discussions in initial research about development of a mig-31 successor but it is at the very early stages russian defense analyst vasily kashin at moscow's higher school of economics hse told the national interest the mig-41 would be a completely separate development from russia's fifth generation suhoy t50 pak fa air superiority fighter the potential new interceptor would be more of a so-called sixth generation effort similar in concept to the u.s air force's penetrating counter air or the u.s navy's f axx or next generation air dominance programs as i understand the mig-41 is a kind of a futuristic project which is still on the stage of conceptual design cashin said i think that it is something like a five plus plus or six gen project so we probably should consider it as having the same status as the american chinese and european six gen projects something futuristic which at best will be deployed by 2035 to 40 because the mig 41 would be developed well after work on the pak fa is complete the new interceptor would not compete for resources with suhoi's program i think there is no conflict because even if it ever reaches the test flying stage it can be no earlier than some time around the mid-2020s cashion said others expressed skepticism as to whether russia has the resources to develop such an aircraft i think it's still very much a paper project under the slogan if we draw it then maybe we'll get money for it a defense industry source told the national interest russia needs a long-range interceptor to replace the mig-31 because of its large territory post-soviet russia even shorn of many of its former territories covers a vast land mass with bases that are often few and far between russia needs a long-range interceptor because of its geography so keeping the mig-31 as long as possible and then making a replacement for them is a good idea cashin said only time will tell if the mig-41 is eventually built certainly the kremlin has the ambition and the need to develop such an aircraft it's question of if russia has the resources to bring such an ambitious project to fruition [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 3min 50sec (230 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021