I guess that’s Quadbike’s first naval construction photo if he thinks that’s an unusual amount rust.
@ Levsha: no idea man.
@ Austin: Real.
So much for no more Russian engines. Big deal, wow!
LOL……
A typically insightful and intelligent post by Scooter.
‘LOL’ !
Well the eventual radar deflection/blocker solution has not been fitted yet as far as I understand, so I am not sure what those photos reveal tbh. Aside from the intense LEVCON deflection possible.
Though I do spy some zigzags in the panel above the intakes 😉
They want to modernise their shipyards as they are inefficient in comparison to Western ones.
That’s a pretty sweeping statement.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1295716894
Good Su-24 footage from back in the day. Guided bomb and missile employment.
http://twower.livejournal.com/583819.html
Another excellent photo-report from twower about Torzhok.
Brahmos is certainly far far too big to fit, as is. Kh-58UShK has been specifically made for PAK-FA though, so when the aircraft enters service it will have a ready stand off ARM, which is pretty nice. Range is 245km max.
The latest Kh-31PD has a maximum range of 250 km.
+1 . An “Alarm METEOR” fired 100km from the S-300 launcher (who has a 120km range) is going to get there pretty fast and at that distance , the launching aircraft is safe .
Cheers .
120km range is a lot less than any vaguely modern S-300 variant, not to talk about S-400.
Some nice photos of the Soobrazitelny:
http://balancer.ru/cache/sites/c/s/cs5200.vkontakte.ru/u6280914/92443698/800×600/y_d5f86c01.jpg
http://balancer.ru/cache/sites/c/s/cs5200.vkontakte.ru/u6280914/92443698/800×600/y_a7ce7cec.jpg
http://balancer.ru/cache/sites/c/s/cs5200.vkontakte.ru/u6280914/92443698/800×600/y_1bbe6224.jpg
http://balancer.ru/cache/sites/c/s/cs5200.vkontakte.ru/u6280914/92443698/800×600/y_bc18bb60.jpg
Good eye Trident, never noticed that before. The Soviet sickle…:cool:

J16 is less like flanker than PAk-FA does.
What?
There is zero basis for this statement.