To add..
To add to the R-27 discussion I have found another model. The R-27EM. Seems to be a improved range version of the basic R-27RE. 170km is quoted.
See the table at this site:http://www.military.cz/russia/air/weapons/rockets/aam/r27/r27.htm
Avatars..
Speaking of cool Avatars.. I am looking for the Sukhoi OKB logo to use as one. Does anyone have one I can use, or know where I can find one small enough?
Cheers. 😉
Totally agree! Love the new look.. 🙂
BTW, what do you think about my new avatar?
Cool! Isn’t that the old Iraqi AF roundel used during WW2?
Not where, or how you want to see the AH-64! Like I said, poor Apache….
No. If my eyes are right the print on the missile says AIM-120C. Was there a Derby on display, Oren?
Had another look, you might be right!
Working now… 🙂
So all the press/magazine talk about a joint development with India on a 5th generation fighter has been merely a notion, or just a proposal?
Poor old Apache! :confused:
Well, that was the whole point. Then it was halted. Oh well- regardless, the difference in seeker size between the R-77 and R-27AE is quite negligible. (260mm body diameter vs 200mm diameter).
Was the R-27AE development halted to concentrate funding on the R-77? Or for another reason..
isn’t it a little bit risky to show Python 5s in open? even more to allow them to be pictured?
Could be why they have the seeker covered? Pyhton-5 has a new IIR seeker if I recall correctly. The rest of it is more or less legacy Python-4. Is the missile behind it the DERBY?
I think with Putin in power there is every chance we will see the PAK-FA realised, and there is the Indian funding that is supposed to be part of it too.
The Yemeni AF is supposed to be getting SMTs. Not sure on the radar fit though.
Papa Lima, Thanks. But I still don’t quite get how the beam is bent away from the horizontal. The beams leave the radar in a straight line do they not? So how does the phase shifting make the beam move at angles away from the transmitter?
Welcome to the Forum Steve.
If you want to add an avatar, you’ll need an image that’s 75 pixels square or less or less than 19.5k in size.
From the Edit Avatar screen, click on Use Custom Avatar and hit the browse button to locate the file on your hard drive and click on the “Save Changes” button. That should do the trick.
In true Blue Peter fashion, here’s one I prepared earlier:
For some reason the Edit Avatar section does not have an Edit option for me. Why would that be?
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