Hi all lost a few pages on this thread what is so special about the 117 type 30 engine?

117 type 30 engine 😀 Everything goes very fast as we give the new names for the unknown engines :p

In my opinion “Type 30” shouldn’t be a modification of the AL-31 series engines. Because Mr. chepkin mentioned that thay have created two fifth generation engines “117” and the “Type 30”. Type 30 is a more powerful one but both of them suits most of the fifth generation engine requirements!

many big shrimps – not forum ones – were talking of early or mid June as flight date. obviously some bugs, obviously specific to this PAV (glitches with mysterious ‘Type 30’ that probably installed on her? one can guess)

those who saw unexpectedly long half-of-an-hour pushing envelope on T-50-1 at the end of June in skies over LII, will not agree to anyone who blackmailed about ‘critical structural problems’

Thanks indeed, then what I understood is static tests ended and its at Ramenskoye Instrument Building Design Bureau for adopting the new components of the avionics suite :confused:

An informative article about current Turkish defence programs and industry ;

Turkey promotes domestic contractors

http://www.zinio.com/pages/DefenseTechnologyInternational/Jul-Aug-11/416178120/pg-48

An interview with the managing director of the NPO “Saturn” Ilya Fedorov;

The MMPP “Salut” there were notable changes. Can we now prostroit cooperation on a fifth-generation engine with “Saturn” and “Salute” in the APC?

– Cooperation is built. We do not share the “Saturn” and ODC – for us it is a coherent whole. Now determined that the project will be the basis of our Moscow site, a second design office “Saturn.” There is a chief designer of the engine – Yevhen Marchuk, he also holds the post of Deputy General Designer of the DCS.

As part of that will make our first design office in Rybinsk, certainty too. And there is an understanding about the involvement of some companies in the ODC project of the fifth generation engine. Distribution of funds received, we are now waiting for money from the customer on the first year of operation?. The first two, even three years – money on a small engine?. But we are moving very quickly. Developments in “Saturn” is very large.

Will the co-operation “Salute” – it all depends on itself “Salute”, if they survive the competition within the framework of cooperation, as it is today. Engaged in dialogue with new leadership, “Salute,” including during the meeting in the Paris exhibition. It’s no secret that my former deputy is now the CEO of “Salute”. That is to say that on a personal level – an ideal relationship and mutual understanding.But now that the issue until the fifth generation of the engine is at the stage of preliminary design. Who will show their worth, who will do better the some elements of the engine – and the party will be “Motor” and “Salute” – he will do with us this engine.

Google translate

http://www.aviaport.ru/news/2011/07/07/218306.html

If senior members helps us about the translated text it will be nice indeed…

Liogkiy Mnogofunktsionalniy Frontovoi Samolyet (LMFS)
[Light Multi-Function Frontal Aircraft]
Light Multi-Role Tactical Aircraft

In November 2006 it was reported that the Russian Air Force had made an unexpected shift in the priorities for its future fighter, with the service will back the simultaneous development of two programs for a fifth-generation aircraft. The PAK FA medium-weight fighter program, which had been underway since 2002, was joined by MiG’s lighter-weight aircraft project. In addition to the goal of winning domestic orders, MiG’s light multi-role fighter, built on the company’s earlier experience with its MiG 1.44 program, also may attract India as a co-developer and future customer.

In April 2002, the Russian military chose Sukhoi’s T-50 proposal in the fifth-generation fighter contest — which was codenamed the Perspektivniy Aviatsionniy Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsii (PAK FA), or future tactical aviation air system. The Sukhoi T-50’s rival in 2002 was the MiG design, the exact designation of which is classified. Later, when MiG Corp. decided to continue this program, it received the codename Liogkiy Mnogofunktsionalniy Frontovoi Samolyot (LMFS) or Light Multi-role Tactical Aircraft. MiG Corp. did not accept defeat in the contest against Sukhoi.

In 2005 MiG’s LMFS project came out of the shadows again. The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) started analyzing the development options for a home-grown fifth-generation fighter, called the Medium Combat Aircraft (MCA), which was a twin-engine version of the its Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas fighter. After a bad experience with the LCA, India sought a partner in Russia for the MCA program.

A great advantage of the MiG project is the fact that its design and technical parameters are significantly different from the Sukhoi T-50. As a result, the market does not have to choose between an “either-or” situation, and both aircraft can find their place, depending upon the needs of potential export clients.

The LMFS will be about 30% lighter than the T-50. According to approximate assessments, the T-50 will have a normal take-off weight of 21 tons, which places it between present MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters — whereas the LMFS is likely to weigh 15 tons. Most probably, the LMFS will retain the delta canard configuration of the heavy MiG 1.44 prototype.

In April 2006, the St. Petersburg-based Klimov Company announced that it had started design work on a new engine for the next-generation lightweight fighter being developed by MiG Corp. Although MiG has yet to define all of its requirements for the future engine, Klimov representatives said their powerplant will have increased thrust, a vectoring nozzle and modular design.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/lmfs.htm

Maybe after the Russian-Indian signing ceremony we will be able to learn the details of the project..! Or at MAKS-2011 😉

Too many pictures of Mi-28N Hunter 😉

http://twower.livejournal.com/575649.html

nice tank, but how much of it is Korean?

No available info about it but rumours are its gonna be a different tank from the K-2 😉 With design, engines and subsystems…