Sukhoi/HAL FGFA yet to begin, the Russian side has expressed optimism that a test article will be ready for its maiden flight by 2009, one year after PAK FA scheduled maiden flight and induction into service by 2015. By February 2009, as per Sukhoi General Director Mikhail Pogosyan, India will initially get the same PAK FA fighter of Russia and the only difference will be the software. In 2010, a total of 500 aircraft were planned with options for further aircraft. Russian Air Force will have 200 single-seat and 50 twin-seat PAK FAs while Indian Air Force will get 166 single seated
Sukhoi Log mine and political problems delayed progress. Sukhoi Log was the subject of a special hearing held by the State Duma's Security Committee under the watchful gaze of hardline communist Viktor Ilyukhin to investigate threats to Russia's national security from this "shadowy" Australian company. The Australian company wrote off $127 million on the failed venture after Russian courts overturned decisions by Russian politicians. The majority of gold was imputed during diagenesis and early metamorphism. After the majority of the gold input was finished, many large scale tectonic and geological events have occurred. Such event ages obtained by the monazite, Rb–Sr, and paleomagnetic