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you mention about the build quality, could you go into clarifications.

Tom of ACIG stated that in general, Russian aircrafts are bolted “simply” and that some natural factors (ie. wind, etc) can seep into the small cracks and gaps from the simpler build and eventually wear down the life time of the aircraft.. just wanted to see if you share this opinion.

You can tell a Chinese made J-11 from the Russian made Su-27SKs by the rust streaks on the rivets in the later, as well as various panel and painting irregularities.

But you can’t do that on the M2. The M2 uses its skin to seal the fuel tanks since it has to use more of its internal volume, even those just under the skin, to hold more fuel. That means tolerances have to be a lot more tight, with welding on the gaps.

A question or rather an observation regarding the “balance beam” picture: The shadow of the wing seems to suggest that the sun is either directly overhead or slightly behind the photographer. If that’s so, why is the area of particular interest, the dorsal radar array, so overexposed as if the sun is pointing right into the camera lens?

And since I haven’t read any news about a massive explosion occuring near a Chinese airfield nor of photographers capturing the exact moments of detonation, I can only conclude that the image is PS’ed. Also, notice the artifacts left over from over contrasting and sharpening…

Any thoughts?

I doubt that is PS. Hui Tong would know it best if it is PS or not since he had a lot of xxperience screening such items for years before he would post it on his website. This is not to mention his familiarity with reliable posters i n the Chinese forums and their follow on comments. It looks to me it’s just sun glare off the balance beam as the beam is likely to be trapezoidal in cross section.

I think this photo is taken few yrs ago but that time they only show the Su-30MKK. Nobody knows a J-10 is actually beside it!

Everyone knew there was a J-10 in that event, as there was other pictures. One picture of the MKK had the J-10’s tail peeping on the side of the picture.

Oh, this one had a different paint job from the other two planes. A third plane maybe?

I wouldn’t read to much into the colouring, seems this is a pretty common occurence with the AL-31F:

http://www.mwindridge.com/Su-27P_Flanker_36911037820_.jpg
http://www.milairpix.com/images/su27_2.jpg
http://web.telia.com/~u13206896/images/su-27_flanker.jpg

The pics also show a plane colored like a prototype and not your regular operational Flanker. You can’t rule out these pics as a Russian prototype testing their own engine prototypes.

About “Independance Day”,I heard that the film’s producers approached the USAF who declined to be involved,hence the F/A18’s were used as the USAF refused the film makers permission to use F22’s.
From the same film makers,”Godzilla” with those ridiculous AH64 Apache-ish things?!!

Did the producers of the “Incredible Hulk” got USAF permission too to have the Green One pounding the living crap out of a Raptor?

Sorry…..No clue…..Don’t thing thats a weapon…..some sorta pod….Google (or any of our folks here) should be able shed some light on that…

Pod for the wrong weapon. It’s a pod used with the Kh-31P, but the plane is armed with YJ-83s which also does not need a pod at all.

Russian fighters are built from the start to have excellent maneuverability.
That includes Mig-19 also. There is no any reason to believe that Chinese version is better in any category. Hydraulics and engines are the same.

The engines are buffed up in the later Chinese versions and had longer life (WP-6A), though still short.