MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax-AVN) - The MIG aircraft building corporation is developing a novel light frontline combat aircraft, MIG Chief Executive Officer and Designer General Valery Toryanin told Interfax-Military News Agency Monday.
He said that the aircraft was not an alternative to Sukhoi- designed fifth-generation fighter.
"The developer of the Russian fifth-generation fighter has been defined. This is Sukhoi, and MIG has no intention to challenge the decision," he said.
He emphasized that MIG "have never said we were making the fifth generation. But we do not want to reduce it to promoting various versions of the MIG-29 Fulcrum, once we have a unique design bureau. We have to move on."
According to the designer, the concept of the new export- oriented vehicle has already been formed, and many potential customers reveal great interest in the aircraft.
"The MIG Corporation had previously collected plenty of fifth-generation data, and this experience will be used in the development of the new aircraft," he said.