the picture of the cockpit is from MAKS-2001 there is no reason to think that series produced birds will look like that 5 years later. The Su-27SM cockpit was shown on Vesti about a year ago and was rather sweet looking.

I’ve seen pictures of the Su-27SM cockpit- it’s got three really nice LCD MFDs, but the HUD is still nowhere near the level of that on the Yak-130 and MiG-29M2. Unless they’ve changed it?

Same with the MiG-29SMT actually, the HUD is never the best they’ve done.

I sincerely doubt you people would find much about Platan and Su-32 radar on open press, while Russians like to promote and show their export items a lot (maybe some users like IAF are not that happy or press the russians to do not do so, ask Harry), they products, and Su-32 enter this category are purely and 100% “for home” and most info is not released.

I have to inform, that KAB-500S integration and evaluations were over last February at 929 GLITS, the bomb was introduced formally on the Su-32 weapons load. Other weapons that will be integrated in the future is the UPAB-1500 glide-bomb.

A pair of new missiles are being developed right now at Tactical Missiles Corporation, the Kh-25MA, a very advanced derivative of the old Kh-25MR, that uses a millimetric wave radar of Phazotron-NIIR called “PSM”, Phazotron is pushing hard at TMC for introducing the seaker and getting the missile ready but the situation is not that clear, one that is a little clear is about the new Kh-25MS, a new “GPS/GLONASS guided” AS-10, that uses the same PSN-2001 multi-channel GPS/GLONASS receptor. Supposedly both missiles would have export versions, and I guess IAF maybe would be interested (I think a “Brimstone-ski” would be nice for the MiG-29 and the Mascot :)…It would be interesting if the IAF have not yet placed a buy order for the KAB-500S-E, because MKB Kompass, the developer of the PSN-2001 said some time ago, that the Su-30MKI Mk3 integration with the bomb is “pretty straight-forward”…Su-30MK2 should be also easy to integrate.

Platan have also be mentioned for the Yak-130 some times ago.

SAPSAN-E at the moment (AFAIK I could be wrong) is just a prototype in testing, and most export users seem to be taking other directions (IAF with Litening-2, RMAF with Thales delivered toys /maybe Damocles/, AlgAF good would know what…)…maybe for little countries like Yemen and so…let give it some time.

I have to said, I’m NOT impressed with the last “Bort 48” cockpit of the Su-27IB, it just looks like a “crash-update” of an old cockpit…damnation, they even uses the same damn SILS-27 or derivative HUD of the Su-27SM and not the new RKPB HUD with UFCP that the MiG-29K of IN will use!…the MFDs also show little resolution (no MFI-68-I5?) and the MMI looks dumb…let the export users go with the best russian kit and the Indian developed Graphic Microprocessor, or directly ask Thales and let them made the magic for you 😀

See, it’s too bad we don’t hear all this information in the standard press. I mean, I’d heard of the KAB-500S but I had no idea as to its progress.

I have to agree on the Bort 48 cockpit, didn’t look nearly as cool as the MiG-29M2 front/rear cockpit setup, for example.

Series production might be different, fingers crossed.

I remember seeing pictures of the “Tu-134Sh”, a Tu-134 specially fitted with the Su-34’s avionics as a test-bed, including quite obviously, it’s nose. I guess maybe from that they decided the B004 was a “lemon”.

Bars-34, anyone?

Anyone got any information on the Platan pod?

The Japanese did one. America and Russia studied them in the Cold War.

They both decided it was a stupid idea 🙂

If there were, the guy who took them was shot 🙂

They’ll need at least that many to replace the Delta IV + Delta III boomers in service. I don’t know if it was put in this thread, but the next Borey’s name will be Vladimir Monomach (don’t know if the spelling is correct).

Where’s the seventh Delta IV? It may not have a name as far as we know, but it hasn’t been decommissioned, to my knowledge.