Well, I would have a little more confidence in the programs progress. If, they display one or all three test models……………
Yeah, maybe they should mail you a scaled model too. You are important after all. Along with other internet aviation enthusiasts. :rolleyes:
Since prototypes are already built / being built, we should have a picture soon enough.

Perhaps a repost long dead, but this apparently was on Saturn’s page in 2005 and was considered as a PAK-FA design, but was not accepted.
Forgive if I am wrong me but won’t the PAK-FA use different engines to begin with on her first flights then switch to ‘new’ engines which lets face it is hardly representative of a finished product. In my mind it would be a bit like Toyota rolling out thier latest model to test on the track with all the surrounding fanfare but with an old engine that will not go into the final product. I can certainly see why my fellows back in Russia are somewhat nervous and apprehensive about this new jet.
The first prototypes will fly with the 117S engine, which still allows the heavy Su-35 to supercruise. The weight of the PAK-FA is clearly still unknown.
The Al-41 engine will be a big improvement with the aim of getting each one to 40,000lbs of afterburning thrust! Clearly this is a goal that won’t take a short time to reach, so they are going to test all the other systems before using the Su-35 engine.
For the benefit of the other. The Sukhoi people had made some fun in Paris, which was taken for granted. During the display week in Le Bourget a camping toilet and a cooking facility was placed in the Sukhoi to allow the people stay with it to keep place and save limited money in 1995. When it did help to come through the day, by answering silly questions from visitors about that. In that days the people from Sukhoi were elder ones, which did speak English a little if at all.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/cockpits/su34/
A serious look into the cockpit does show, that no frontline crew-member in mission-outfit will disconnect himself from the
http://www.zvezda-npp.ru/english/05.htm
to climb over the panels to heat a meal or releaf himself. 😀
They won’t get out while in combat, but there’s plenty of room in the middle to get up and move around.
official estimate are subject of delay and change or cancellation…
just looks at A380 etc etc basically every ‘newgen something’ project….
The delay was from late 2008 to 2009. There is nothing at the moment to suggest the contrary from Sukhoi. They have a year to meet their current deadline.
Do you think did they finish the assembly work on the prototypes?I think they are probably finished the work and started to prepeare the aircrafts for the first flight.Because It was announced on 5 May 2007 by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov that the first flight of the new aircraft was expected in late 2008!
The latest official estimate was early 2009 by Pogosyan I think.
Boring, you have contributed nothing………again.
The irony is too good.
Kh-41, dont make me dig up the thread.
Yes you did.
When you post something of worth on this forum you will be taken seriously, but you are a very long way from that.
0 quotes, 0 evidence. Performing according to expected standards. 😀 Well done, lawrence.
Twisting words around isn’t going to make you look like a superstar to anyone.
No my common sense is much more valuable than anything you have ever produced, as is shown by your inability to disprove anything i say.
Yawn, your now so desperate (already) that you have had to resort to picking up on typos.:D
You explicitly said that the current in service Bear could carry the Kh-22, which it can not, thus you were proven wrong…….again.
Oh so not Kh-42, what are you talking about then?
Unless you can quote me, which you can’t, (because I never said it and you are lying), you can never prove I suggested the old Bear was in active service.
And your common sense was applauded by no one but yourself. A self made Nobel prize winner here. 😀
So? Te internals are all part of the boat, if you drive something through two metres of ice it will sustain some degree of damage, that damage may even be expected within the vessels design parametres but it will be sustained. As you have no evidence to contrary, just your own fanboy generalisations you have even less position to speak than me given that your credibility has been shot here ever since you claimed that Russia still had Kh-22 firing bears and the Kh-42 was in service.
You have no evidence to show that the Typhoon WILL sustain damage, so your biased US fan boy non sense is as good as my guess.
What exactly is a Kh-42? :confused: Making em up as they come eh lawrence? :rolleyes:
I also suggested nothing of the sort of a Bear-G being in service, merely that a Bear-H could likely perform anti-shipping tasks with little issues, which no one here refuted except you, which really, means no one.
snake65 , help me in identifying the subs.
1 ) Oscar 2 SSGN
2 ) Typhoon SSBN
3 ) Akula 1/2 SSN
4 ) Yasen SSGN (??)
5 ) Alfa SSN
#4 looks like a November Class SSN.
#3 may well be a Victor.
Wow you are ignorant, sure the sub might not be endangered but the consequences of such forces are going to damage internal systems etc, in case of nuclear war such damage may be justifiable but it may also force the sub back to port. Have you ever slammed a car into brick wall…….its the same effect.
I have not replied to your biased non-sense in a while, but this just is too good to ignore!
Car or submarine – I wonder if there’s a difference? This is real ignorance!
The sub was designed to be put into this situation, so no, the internal systems would likely NOT be damaged.
Still too hard to comprehend eh? Or you going to generalize some more about how the sub would be endangered? Unless you have the operating specs of the submarine in front of you, drop it.
According RIAN is a liquid fueled stage. Does this means that is able to change the trajectory plane in fligth?
I think that’s one the main points of the missile is it not?
I did a bit of research for the past 15 mins looking at this Jon James, seems the only thing we have in common is we the doubtfull feeling about the PAK-FA which is of course shared by many others including may I add a great many Russians. May I ask, are you the resident forum troll? I ask because I have never actually read a post of yours that is non inflamitory and actually offers up anything usefull to anyone and I would imagine most here feel the same about you. I shall now report you for a character attack.
And what have you offered that is useful?
I have regularly been following the forum for months and nothing useful from you.
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Yeah that number of 1500 is probably a pipe dream unless World War III breaks out next week. It might be the DoD’s desired number but I’d bet it won’t come near that mark. The USN will probably not see a big cut to their fleet as they’re arguably in the most need of the jet, leaving the cuts to come from the USAF and USMC orders. USMC F-35Bs will probably be relatively safe for the most part since there’s no other alternative if htey stick to wanting STOVL capability, meaning that as with the F-22, the USAF will likely have to deal with less F-35As than they want. Which is the way it works.
I’d imagine if they had a total of even close to 1,000 in service in all branches by 2030 that would be “good” numbers.
Money would be better spent on real security issues like terrorist bombs (and methods to detect them), etc.
On a side note, and on topic, when will the F-22 decision be finalized?
Where?
“12/17/99: TUPOLEV FAVORED TO BUILD NEXT GENERATION BOMBERS
Yuriy Koptev, the general director of the Russian Air and Space Agency, announced that the Tupolev design bureau is merging with the factory that produces Tupolev’s designs, the Aviastar aircraft factory located in Ulyanovsk, to form the Tupolev Joint Stock Company. The new company will participate in a recently announced competition for a contract to design a new bomber to replace the Tu-160 [NATO designation ‘Blackjack’] and Tu-95 [‘Bear’] bombers now in service with the Russian Air Force. Other aviation companies participating in the competition include Ilyushin, Sukhoi, and the Myasishchev experimental factory, but Izvestiya reports that Tupolev is the Ministry of Defense’s preferred company. The decision to develop a new bomber is part of a renewed emphasis on the Long Range Aviation force in Russia’s military doctrine. The Ministry of Defense has authorized the completion of several Tu-160s, the production of which was frozen at the beginning of the 1990s, and two new cruise missiles, the Kh-555 and the Kh-101, which went into production in the autumn. Russia is also receiving eight Tu-160s, three Tu-95s, and 575 Kh-55 [NATO designation AS-15A ‘Kent’] cruise missiles from Ukraine in exchange for canceling part of Ukraine’s gas debt.
Source:
[Yuriy Golotyuk, “Rossiya eshche sygrayet v ‘blehk dzhek,'” Izvestiya, 14 December 1999, p. 1; in WPS Oborona i Bezopasnost, No. 148, 17 December 1999.] {entered 2/18/2000 lgm} “
This could actually be right, and that Tu-95MS flight with the missiles may have been the first public appearance of the missile.