MOSCOW. Aug 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Inferiority of the basic technologies for onboard electronics is the main obstacle to the creation of a fifth-generation fighter, Givi Dzhandzhgava, president of the Tekhnokompleks research and production center, told Interfax-Military News Agency Thursday.
"A main point complicating the work of onboard electronics developers and producers on the fifth-generation fighter is a need to reach the competitive level for a number of basic technologies," he said.
He named "the severe economic state of lower-level cooperation producers" among other problems of the industry. "For them it is profitable to produce much more makes that they do currently - even should onboard electronics be unified.
"A fall in the quality of Russian components due to aging of equipment, brain drain, and routine lack of warranty of supplies, terms, prices, and quality of components, among other reasons, don't help our work," he said.
As to burning technical issues in instrument-making, he said, these were "fast increases in rapidity of onboard links, in data exchange, in the output of computers, and new efficient mathematical processing technology."
"The are problems seen at the upper level of integration, for there are too many problems with concrete instruments," Dzhandzhgava said.