SAI Defender-1

The SAI Defender-1 is a new line of 4.5th generation fighters developed by SAI Sutkov Aircraft Industries. They are very advanced, using fly by wire controls, modern SAI built twin engines, and has fast canard delta wings. It is very agile at both supersonic and low speeds, affective in all kinds of weather. It uses a DASS system to detect threats and also has a enhanced ground proximity warning system. One unit costs 80 million Cenza.

History
Design began in 2013 for the Defender with a budget of almost 12 billion Cenza. It was originally meant to be a air superiority fighter but a decision was made in May that year for it to be a fighter aircraft. The Defender is a agile plane, made to be a effective dogfighter in combat and able to avoid surface to air missiles easily. The maiden flight of the Defender prototype in July of 2016 and testing began a month later from Zhukarsk Air Base in the Utolsk Forest. The aircraft had completed all tests by June 2019 despite two incidents on landing of which one was fatal. The aircraft began production in July and hundreds of orders have rolled in- SAI began advertisement of the Defender in August to get further orders.