NEW DELHI: The manufacturing facility of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd producing Sukhoi fighter jets can be used to build the fifth-generation fighter aircraft if the government decides to go ahead with the proposed Indo-Russian joint venture, T Suvarna Raju, the chief of the aerospace behemoth, has said.Raju said the state-of-the-art facility in Nasik will not require any major investment to reconfigure it to produce the fifth generation fighter aircraft ( FGFA ).He said there was much in common between the FGFA and the Sukhoi 30MKI jet as both had structural similarities and the plant was well equipped to produce the new generation stealth fighter for which India and Russia have been in negotiations for nearly a decade. "Definitely, it can be used for the FGFA. It will need a little bit of augmentation. "I will not comment on the justification on expenditure on the project. The delivery of the remaining Sukhoi jets is likely to be over by early 2020.

Source: Economic Times November 26, 2017 07:18 UTC