BF-4 just took off 🙂

This is the first mission systems-equipped Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter.

what a fatty 🙂

Doesn’t sound like combat radius.

Cruise radius is defined as the distance to a point a aircraft or a ship need to turn back to make it back, not combat radius.

I made them in photoshop a while back. I have some more, but not much variation I’m afraid.:)

Copyright Gripen International Per Kustvik

It was a little tricky turning this one into a single seater. 🙂

Copyright Gripen International. Katsuhiko Tokunaga

Sorry for bombarding this thread with the Gripen.

i thought 2 last photos were the DEMO, but one i a singleseater?!
Does gripen C realy cary that loadout?

Just a question.
Mig-21 is a 2nd gen airframe design & russians could reduce its RCS to 0.25m2-from i assue 5m2?-why does SU-35 has such a huge RCS in comparison? I assume the latter’s airframe was built with stealth in mind & could have been treated with the same RAM.

First o all, mig-21 does have a natural fanblocker doesnt it? And its kind of lean form to begin with, not too many angles. I once heard the tunnel between the engine on Mig-29 and SU-27 etc. is no good for RCS but good for the aero. but i can be wrong here..

India to flight-test first indigenous jet engine next month

After two decades of research and development, India is all set to flight-test its first indigenously developed jet engine next month, an official said on Wednesday.

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Nice!
How much is the Kaveri enable to put out these days?

It would be more useful simply to compare un-refuelled combt radius, rather than including range.

Every combat aircraft needs to be capable of performing a mission. Combat radius shows in a simplistic way, without taking into account such variables as weather conditions, flight profiles, altitudes flown at, varying climb rates (high readiness alert missions etc) nor weapons/sensor loads, specifically.

Range is simply a metric of how far an aircraft can fly, not a usefulnumber as to how far an aircraft can go and fight… If you wish to compare military aircraft in such a way, despite the futility of such, as I’ve just described with SO many variables that HAVE to be considered, then official, open source information on combat radius, is the best to use, IMHO…

How do you “interpolate” so much different data? the data availble are sparse att best.
even measuring milage on a car is a problem…

Making the plan even more “paper”

Soon Saab is going to tell brazil to develop its own plane 😀

integration is part of building a plane…
if its a big deal the can manage it in a year or so…thats it. this is not paper. its been made twice, it can be done once more.

@Loke

the other thing that was then mentionned in France
was that Embraer would be associated to the design of the
NEXT, 5TH+ GEN. plane by Dassault. ( Maybe resurgence in
the media of the “stealth” Rafale programme is to be seen
as a reminder of this, since from a French perspective this
was understood as a live but longer-termed item. )
Now how well would the “coalition” of SAAB fans from Brazil
argument for industrial development stand up to that?
Duh! Collaborate on a future fighter with input from experience
in making a 4.5+ gen. one or collaborate on a redesign of a
4.5 gen one, period?

SAAB has one big advantage in the time being there for the
Brazilians to join in their NG but in the long run, it is not so.
.

I do not think Dassault or EADS or SAAB soon be making a “5gen+” fighter, the focus of today is UCAV (ex. Neuron for dassault and Saab). What that gives the future will see.
Both Dassault and Saab(ex. the korean offer) do concepts studies and RnD in the meantime of future fighters. But i doubt any of the europeans are going to do it by them self anymore.