The newest Russian fighter-interceptor should take to the skies in 3-4 years.

The first flight of the newest Russian fighter-interceptor MiG-41 should take place by 2025, which will allow the Russian Aerospace Forces to start accepting these combat aircraft by 2028. Apparently, the construction of the first prototype of a new generation of Russian combat aircraft will be completed by 2023, after which the stage of ground tests will begin, and only later the unique combat aircraft will have to take to the skies.

The United States drew attention to what is happening, believing that by 2030 Russia will not have time to completely replace about 200 MiG-31 fighters, however, according to American experts, the fact that Russia will re-equip with MiG-41 fighters is completely obvious and logical.

The MiG-31 Foxhound heavy interceptor was the first Soviet fourth-generation combat aircraft to enter service with the country's Air Force in 1981 — a year before the MiG-29A light fighter and four years before the Su-27 heavy fighter. This aircraft is ahead of later combat aircraft in many respects: range and altitude, armament, radar systems. However, due to the high cost of production and operation, the MiG-31 are going to be written off by 2028, writes The Military Watch. "By 2028, the MiG-31 fighter-interceptor will retire ... We have time to create a new aircraft as a replacement for the existing one," said the general director of the MiG corporation Sergei Korotkov, speaking at the FIDAE-2016 international aerospace show in Chile"- сообщает information publication "Reporter".

Earlier, Russian aircraft designers confirmed the development of the MiG-41 fighter, although at the moment the stage of the work on the creation of the interceptor remains unknown.