What is there not to follow? He claimed that the nacelles were different from each other based on ****ty pictures and then extrapolated to levels that can only be described as “Jō Asakura”…

Oh brother!

Even if I got the odd thing wrong, that’s what you love to recall…but memories are short on what I actually got right, huh?

I’ll take an occasional touch of speculation, deduction and lateral thinking any day of the week over waiting eons to get something second or third hand and then passing it off as my own.

Admittedly, sometimes I do tread on people’s toes. For example the Hotdog-Burrito-Bacon didn’t like the fact that on his beloved J-20 thread I revealed more in a single post than his mindless comical blabberings had achieved in over 4 years.

I’ll take his (and your) feelings into account next time I post. Soreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! ………(I won’t really).

Sorry to rain on your kindergarten antics…..but did you notice the new starboard PMC cowling has significantly more protective covering topside (and its canvass still appears larger than the port)?

Of course you didn’t, coz you need to be spoonfed.

Given that compression & bypass ratios will be similar, it is the 24cm(!!) difference in inlet diameter that affords the F-135 the greater thrust.

For this reason alone the F-135 cannot be fitted to any aircraft other than the F-35, and is still highly likely to outperform the Type-30 because the latter can’t deviate too much from the ~932mm of the 117’s inlet.

A comparison with the F119-PW-100 would be more relevant.

Excerpt taken from an official company document from earlier this year:

Впервые в России разработана технология изготовления цианат- эфирных связующих, обеспечивающих работоспособность композиционных материалов до 200°С. Разработанные связующие и композиты обеспечивают конечным материалам комплекс ценных свойств: теплостойкость, высокие прочностные характеристики, ударостойкость и низкое водопоглощение. Модификация циановых эфиров термопластами позволило значительно повысить их вязкость разрушения с сохранением исходных свойств. Разработанные пластики могут быть длительно использованы при температурах до 170°С…

Материалы на основе разработанных связующих (препреги) использованы в ПАО «Компания «Сухой» для изготовления стекло- и сферопластиков перспективных радиопрозрачных обтекателей; углепластики используются при разработке основных силовых конструкций перспективного многоцелевого истребителя – [COLOR=”#FF0000″]индийского варианта Т-50,[/COLOR]а также при отработке возможности расширения области применения ПКМ в существующих изделиях, с учетом более высокой теплостойкости новых материалов.

For the first time in Russia the technology of manufacturing cyanate-ester binders has been developed, enabling the performance of composite materials up to 200°C. Designed binders and composite materials provide a final set of valuable properties: heat resistance, high strength characteristics, impact resistance and low water absorption. Cyanate esters’ modification of thermoplastics greatly improve their fracture toughness while maintaining the original properties. The developed plastics can be used for long periods of time at temperatures up to 170°C…

Materials on the basis of these developed binders (prepregs) are used by JSC Company”Sukhoi” for the manufacture of glass and micro-sphere plastics for the future radome; carbon composites are used in the development of the main high strength structures of the future multipurpose fighter – [COLOR=”#FF0000″]the Indian version of the T-50, as well as when developing the possibility of expanding the scope of PMC composites in existing products, taking into account the higher heat resistance of the new materials.[/COLOR]

Either the wording “Indian variant” is basically a discrete way of saying ‘Stage 2 prototypes’…or the differences between the Russian and Indian types is more fundamental than just ‘source code’.