{"id":125210,"date":"2021-07-20T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/russia-unveils-new-checkmate-fighter-jet"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:23:34","slug":"russia-unveils-new-checkmate-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/russia-unveils-new-checkmate-fighter-jet","title":{"rendered":"Russia unveils new \u2018Checkmate\u2019 fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-unveils-new-checkmate-fighter-jet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s head, Slyusar, also touted the aircraft\u2019s features on Russian state TV, describing the planes as \u201cunique in their class\u201d and adding that they have \u201ca combat radius of 1500 kilometers, the largest thrust-to-weight ratio, shortened takeoff and landing, more than seven tons of combat load, which is an absolute record for aircraft of this class.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin got a sneak peek of a new fifth-generation lightweight single-engine fighter jet at an air show just outside of Moscow on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Russian aircraft makers unveiled a prototype of the stealth fighter dubbed \u201cCheckmate\u201d for the 68-year-old leader at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, ahead of its official unveiling later in the day, according to a statement from Rostec, the state-owned military giant which is responsible for exporting Russian technology.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, and the general director of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Yury Slyusar, presented the warplane to Putin at the exhibition pavilion of the Sukhoi company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s head, Slyusar, also touted the aircraft\u2019s features on Russian state TV, describing the planes as \u201cunique in their class\u201d and adding that they have \u201ca combat radius of 1500 kilometers, the largest thrust-to-weight ratio, shortened takeoff and landing, more than seven tons of combat load, which is an absolute record for aircraft of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}