Boeing was planning on offering the An-72 Coaler into the FCA competition.I’m not sure if they’re still in,but if they are,then the An-72 would offer advantages over both the C-27J and C-295 in speed and range,the C-27J would be able to carry a bit more,payload wise.In this role,it would be like a mini C-17.Be pretty interesting seeing a former Soviet airlifter in American markings too.

Thank you,I put new stuff up somewhat regularly so check back every now and again if you’re interested..As far as IIAF or IRAF.either,lol.

Interesting! Have you tried coming up with a Tornado (IDS please) in RMAF colours too? :diablo:

I have thought about it and also a Jordanian IDS model too,but as of yet,haven’t found a good side view to base it on,but I’m working on it.The other problem is Photobucket resizes it from a nice sized pic,to that little thing,so on most of my drawings,you can’t really make out the detail you could on a full sized copy.Just finished a couple AH-1W SuperCobras last night,one from Saudi Arabia,in the 3 tone desert camo,and a German PAH-2 model.Getting back to the A-7,I was thinking of doing one of the A-7G models Switzerland was supposed to get.Heres a link to my photobucket album to see some of what I’ve done.http://photobucket.com/albums/c177/OPFOR/

Perfect Iranian F14A! That’s EXACTLY the good reason why the Atar was proposed!!
:p 🙂
If we compare the ultimate Atar, the 9K50 ( the Mirage F1 and Mirage 50 engine) it had a thrust (with reheat) of 7200kgp. The first phantom’s J79 had 7700kgp, and the last 8120kgp. So the loss was not enormous… but that’s right the Atar was less powerful than the J79 (ask the Israelis 🙂 )

Thats right,which is why the Israelis went with the J-79 on the Kfir,rather then the Atar.As far as the Spey goes,you’re right,it offered more thrust,but the larger intake and since it was a larger engine,negated the performance.If I remember right,the Spey was good for high altitude missions,like bomber interception,but at low level,was slower and offered less range then the J-79.

The bottom pic showing the Mi-28 concepts looks alot like modified Hinds,while the Mi-24 mockup looks almost like a UH-1 with a longer tailboom,not the fearsome Hind of today.Although,I’d like to know how they expected to fire the missiles off without shooting themselves down.Judging by the angle the missiles are facing,they’d have gone right into the rotors.Very interesting though.

As far as I know,

1.No,the DRAAF never got the Mi-35P Hind F
2.All I’ve ever seen has been the green/yellow camo

Do these have internal bomb bays ?

No,unlike the F-111,the Fencer has no internal bomb bay.

China also recently flew the two seat Q-5J Fantan.This is a combat capable trainer version.This could also be the basis for a more advanced two seat night/all weather model.