Um…say whaaaat?!:eek: Do tell us more please, who’s (what position he has) the person who told you all this , and who are those new MiG-35s for then? RuAF? RuNavy ( well where the hell are the hooks then)?

Thanks.:)

Be patient, we have to wait and see. This info came to me from a colleague who discussed that with RSK people. I`m also wondering whether it is true or false. Supposedly, Syrians never acquired something like that below, they wanted to modernize their izd9.12 only. RSK just finished the Mig-29 upgrade in Syria and there was no effort to buy new aircraft version at all. Those new variants izd7.41/7.47 are company demonstrators so far and are domesticated for RuAF only. I think the article in TakeOff also supports this theory with this sentence.

RAC “MiG” delayed the modernization of the Peruvian fighter

http://www.avia.ru/news/?id=1329916155

Can somebody explain it, if the Mig Corp. busy with some unknown secret projects or why they complain about the lack of work?

I;ve been told past week that RSK recently finished deal in Syria modernizing their Mig-29 fleet with SMT package and that those new built Migs35 izd7.41/7.47 at Zhukovski were not designed for Syria, nor any foreign customers.

Airbus fuselage sections receive an additional coat of grey paint on the lower interior areas, where water from the cabin air collects after condensing on the cold metal while flying at altitude.

It might be also some kind corrosion inhibitor coatings, widely used in the aircraft MRO as well, but usually they are transparent, not grey. They are applied on the interior paint though.

That’s an interesting topic for two reasons, actually.

1. I don’t think all the grey areas are composite in these MiG pictures, the only ones which certainly are should be the lightest (CFRP) and darkest (GFRP or AFRP) panels. At least some of the medium grey areas are probably painted metal though, for example I doubt the wing skins have been switched to composite.

2. Do we have ANY reliable sources on what parts of the J-10 airframe are composite? The Chinese primer schemes seem to give little if any indication, you could argue that the green parts sometimes seen could be non-metallic but more often than not those are areas where you wouldn’t normally expect composites.

I agree, in case of the Mig-35M2 I think integral wing fuel tanks are welded structure now as well as the fuselage FT no.3, risky to fly when in bare/anodized metal and needs to be treated asap for the sake of safety by an external coating. It is also visible that they are treating other areas with a light layer of that grey paint.

I dare to say that J-10 airframe possesses very little composite materials, but they could prove me wrong.

if your country ended up buying Hokums..

Yup, you would wonder how close to truth the digi Hokums might be during their special visit in 1996. 😀 Ten years later digi fulcrums rolled out from the hangar doors behind Kamov helicopters. My colleague told me that Kamov company tech.personal were giving a crash course in Ka-50 maintenance and flight preparation to our people.

It is damn unique! I like it.

I read somewhere that the paint was not a very good kind and peeled off real fast, and military did not really want it. Any truth to that, or just nonsense rumors?

There were problems with the paint system applied, it blistered a peeled off during high speed dashes only(>M2,2) when the aerodynamic heating was greatest. Up to M2 speeds no harm was done to the paint at all. A kind of pre-paint surface preparation problem, they found out and solved it by repainting the aircraft again. Some latest pics of the second one.

This is one of the sexiest aircraft designs ever…:)