New Delhi. The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) should be inducted in 2016.

Air Chief Marshal F H Major told India Strategic that discussions to finalise the technical specifications of the Indo-Russian project were on, and that its induction should begin “from 2017 onwards.”

India and Russia had agreed to co-develop the FGFA and an agreement was signed in this regard when Indian Defence Minister A K Antony had visited Moscow in October last year.

The Air Chief said: “FGFA’s development is expected to take up till 2016 and induction (should be) from 2017 onwards.”