The Russian media has published a few details of Sukhoi's Light Tactical Aircraft (LTA) since last December, but not the full scope of the single-engine fighter's novel design and ambitious export-driven business case. A blustery one-week marketing blitz leading up to the opening day of the MAKS Air Show outside Moscow on July 20 branded the LTA program as the "Checkmate" solution in a global market now awash in developmental fighter projects. After providing Russian President Vladimir Putin a personal tour of the Checkmate pavilion at the MAKS exhibit grounds, Russian defense and industry officials tried to be confidently specific and cautiously vague about the project at the same time.
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