MOSCOW. Nov 23 (Interfax-AVN) - A larger part of expenses on the production of the fifth-generation combat plane will be covered by the companies engaged in the project, a spokesman for the chief of armament of the Russian Armed Forces told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
The project implementation will cost at least USD1.5m, the spokesman said.
Chief of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency Yuri Koprev earlier told Interfax-Military News Agency that a part of profits from aircraft exports would be spent on the project due to limited capabilities of the state.
The Sukhoi aircraft production company has the largest stock of foreign orders but it does not mean that other companies such as Yakovlev and MIG will not be involved in the project, Koptev said.
According to him, the first prototype of the fifth generation fighter is supposed to make its first flight in 2006. The plane's mass production and supplies to the Armed Forces will start in 2010.