Are you waiting to see the targeting system like this? 😀
Wow. Looks like they’re going to add a hardpoint under the left air intake for a targeting POD like on the F-15E. I was hoping they would do something like that for awhile.
That attachment is similar to the SURA-K attachment for a HMCS. Implying that the PAKFA may not have a full blown HMDS but continues with a HMCS?
One thing about HMDS’s is that they come with a significant weight penalty and pilots keep complaining about a sore neck, which can lead to a severe issue over a longer period of time.
Is that the reason Russia continues to persist with HMCS? Technology is probably not the answer because they could source systems and components or even complete systems from the French.
I think the PAK-FA will have a new HMD.
I am curious- does the RuAF commonly perform interceptions, lets say, over the Baltic Sea of say, NATO assets patrolling close/in the direction of Russian airspace? Or do they not care?
They used too.
This is a same airframe as MiG-29M. Check side number, this is just a scale model of 154 (forth prototype of MiG-29M 9.15).
The bort number maybe the same but there are clear differences between the two airframes. First the Vertical stabilities are different
also the wings as well (note the 10 hardpoints over 8 hardpoints).
The difference between the MiG-29M and MiG-35 will be only avionics (with Zhuk-AE AESA radar instead of Zhuk-ME used on production Indian MiG-29K, Algerian/Russian MiG-29SMT and MiG-29M 961 prototype), the airframe and engines are the same.
So does that mean that MiG has gone away from the idea of this airframe for the MiG-35?
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