Or commission a suitable straight wing asset that can do the job for 2-3 aircraft at a time. You’re still going to need straight wing assets for setting up the offboard radar pickets and cargo hauling. Helicopters can only do so much of those duties.

On that note – has the C-2 ever been trialled or used as a tanker for the USN?

No that’s PAK-FA. I recently found this leaked image (the real thing I swear) on the paralay boards and it matches it PERFECTLY:

I don’t think you should leak images of the MiG Ug-Bird on a western forum like this 😡

I think they still have room for some bombs on the underside…

I think a Brahmos above each wing would really make it

Mack – no worries, I think we all goofed on this. Flex was the only one to come out of it with credit 🙂

It will all be downhill once the aircraft is unveiled, because the speculation will turn from good humoured discussion on the shape of the aircraft, date of first flight etc. – to people saying stuff like

“iz clrly f22 knock off!”

“oh that tail section looks totally ill designed, i bet sopwith camel is better built”

“i know guy in CIA, he sez PAK-FA was built on fake f-22 plans sold to kgb and will break apart at 6g… srsly”

so on and so forth.

😀

You are human

Credit to Flex, I was too gullible at first too

there is no HUD, It has that “land attack” cockpit of rafale there is Martin-Baker Mark 16F ejection seat. I say it is Rafale simulator. Image is taken from a friendly visit to France.

Can anyone confirm that there is a Rafale simulator with a sliding canopy?

I had assumed the PAK-FA would largely share a cockpit/avionics of the SU-35 but based on the pic above that isn’t the case. Althought it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that a bit of espionage has gone on.. and/or a wholly new cockpit was developed.

Obviously the ejector seat is markedly different to the K-36:

Why the need to develop a new one?

I’m not saying anything definitively either way – there are distinct differences between what we see and the rafale simulator, I’m just posting the seats for comparisons sake.

There appears to be greater side to side head restraint on whatever seat he is getting into anyway 🙂

It is interesting that they share a standard label though

I’m trying to figure out the yoke we see in the cockpit – is it the thrust lever, or a center stick ala Su-35