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This recently announced aircraft is a fifth-generation bomber, expected to make its maiden flight around 2015-2020. Everything claimed about this, apart from the fact that Tupolev is developing it (and even that is probably a bullshit, given the sad state of Tupolev right now), must be considered as pure speculation at present. Mainly because at this stage it is more of a design competition name, rather than actual aircraft designation. Recently the grapevine brought the rumors that it would be developed not by Tupolev but by Sukhoi, and based on one of their late-Soviet rejected designs, T-60S, in its final form of "object 54". From the look of the said prototype it'll probably be stealthy and look rather good — with the flat lifting belly and variable wings it seemed to be something out of a Sci-Fi movie.
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This recently announced aircraft is a fifth-generation bomber, expected to make its maiden flight around 2015-2020.2015-2020(as of 2023 it still only exists on paper). Everything claimed about this, apart from the fact that Tupolev is developing it (and even that is probably a bullshit, given the sad state of Tupolev right now), must be considered as pure speculation at present. Mainly because at this stage it is more of a design competition name, rather than actual aircraft designation. Recently the grapevine brought the rumors that it would be developed not by Tupolev but by Sukhoi, and based on one of their late-Soviet rejected designs, T-60S, in its final form of "object 54". From the look of the said prototype it'll probably be stealthy and look rather good — with the flat lifting belly and variable wings it seemed to be something out of a Sci-Fi movie.
