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Brazil’s defense minister, Celso Amorim, says he hopes a government decision concerning the purchase of 36 new fighter aircraft for the Brazilian air force will be taken before the first term of the year is over.

IAF’s ACM says that he hopes that the L1 bidder will be identified in 2 weeks time..

India may choose winner of MRCA in 2 weeks

It was 3 weeks 4 weeks back :p

Two EJ200s could make it a Typhoon-sized fighter, with a comparable price tag.

IIRC, it was already envisaged to be in the class of super hornet.

The one at the front says 800l drop tank, while the one at the back is really hard to make out but possibly looks like 1200l drop tank written on it.

If those three are indeed 1200l DTs then thats quite a lot of fuel for a small fighter. 2400 kg internal fuel plus 3600l external fuel. In that config you could add two BVR, two WVR and a recon pod.

I believe Madrat is right, for a more realistic loading it should be 3×800 litre tanks instead of 3×1200.

3×1200 litre tanks~ 3300 Kgs (including weight of pylons)
2×2 BVR missiles ~400 Kgs
2×2 WVR missiles~300 Kgs
Recce pod = 200 Kgs

sums up to almost 4200 Kgs

Add to that the loaded weight at 9500 Kgs and you overshoot MTOW by 500 Kgs.

The centreline hardpoint can only carry LGB ..but I dont think the hardpoint has been qualified yet.

Infact I havent seen any pylon even.

ray, there is only one such pic AFAIK. static, not flying. people on BR had the same question and someone found this image a few months back.

Centre line loading should be perhaps the easiest to study with minimum disruption to airflow over wings and providing least of bending forces and differential loading, but not one picture surfacing over 8 years is surprising. It isn’t even featuring in some latest wind tunnel models.

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PS: can’t make out whether its pylon 7 or pylon 1 in the last wind tunnel model.

http://tarmak007.blogspot.com/2012/01/big-daddy-warms-up-for-target-thandavam.html?m=0

Agni-V test firing event has been nicknamed “Thaandavam” (Taandav = dance of destruction)
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/as-agni-5-takes-aim-india-eyes-icbm/351830.html

As if Agni-5 wasn’t enough, work on Agni-6 is also in progress.

“Future systems may carry different types of payloads such as high energy weapons. Further systems whenever planned, will have some of these (read as MIRV/MarV) features,” he said.

On the launch date of A-5, he said: “The launch campaign will officially begin in the middle of the month.”

It seems to me as if Agni-5 is only an intermediate product and Agni-6 being a full blown ICBM.

Ok, makes sense.

Anyone have by chance some firm layouts of what the INS Kolkata will look like, including weapons fit? I get all sorts of conflicting layouts and weapons configurations online. The few launch pics look pretty slick, ship seems to have good lines, at least so far.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PfCG-NMvt5Q/TlClifprcBI/AAAAAAAACDg/hcgC1F4KsRY/s1600/Latest%2Bphoto%2Bof%2BProject-15A%2BKolkatta-Class%2BDestroyer.jpg
All 3 of the class right?
Any details on the phased array on the top mast?
Looks like the navy is getting some big additions before 2015.

Layout of the ship

El/M-2248 MF Star, part of Barak-8 system.

Some new IN design concepts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7axAL3qHaNI

The part that seems the most infeasible to me is the timeline. induction in 2020 for an aircraft whose design might just have been finalised is optimistic to say the least ?