The Indian Air Force has scaled down its requirement for the proposed Indo-Russian fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) by 70 aircraft -- it has not put down a requirement now for just 144 aircraft, down from
214 earlier stated (166 single seaters and 48 twin-seaters). In
an interview to
India Strategic magazine, IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne has said that all 144 of these will be single-seater aircraft (which explains the
modified single-seat wind-tunnel model unveiled recently by HAL).