http://www.airforce.ru/photogallery/gallery10/su-34/apavlov_su-34_1200.jpg

This time, with Kh-29L.

Toan’s numbers are by no means the ultimate truth, but they are useful extrapolations based on some comments made by industry people. Given the lack of firm RCS/radar data, that’s all we can really toy around with.

August 2011, Vik:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g191/snake65/Vik082011_1.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g191/snake65/Vik082011.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g191/snake65/Vik082011_2.jpg

Looking very Kuznetsov like in these photos.

Sorry in regard to Your optimism … but is that already “fact” or again only a “wishfull-thinking” if, when and so on, especially since the Indian Flankers will also be modified for their own Astra AAM (which is surely not in the class of the Meteor).

Deino

PAK-FA will have its own specific family of A2A munitions, so it doesn’t need Meteor in the long run really.

http://russianplanes.net/images/to58000/057223.jpg

Rumanian MiG-21 Lancer-Bs.

Are You sure ??? At least it has the Su-27M’s taller tails with not only the fin-tips but also with the additional fuel tank … and overall the other airframe modifications (- the canards) were included too !?!! :confused:

Sorry, what I meant was the airframe was much closer to the Su-27UB base than the Su-27M, aside from the modified tail fins (they have the height and thickness of the Su-27M, larger area than say a Su-30MKI tail fin) the differences are not at all deep, some strengthening for payload, minor stuff.

Kinda funny that Irkut, which manufactured the UB in Soviet times, ended up with something close to Su-27M with its Su-30 (canards, vectoring, phased radar) while KnAAPO, the Su-27M home, created a Su-30 more inline with the UB.

Not that hard to look up…Meteor is slightly heavier than R-77, a bit longer, has a slightly smaller body diameter (though it has those big intakes).

http://vpk-news.ru/site_media/photographs/2011/10/12/DSC_0823-1.jpg

Huge Su-34 photo