and if the U.S. with its all financial resources were incapable to replace the B 52H by the high advanced B 2A Spirit certainly the Russia should have much more problems with its military budget to replace the Tu 95 SM or even the Tu 160 by anything like the stealth B 2A Spirit.
you dont understand, russia has a different mentality then USA, Jobs pay less, experts are payed less, with putin as president – he keeps the millitary in check in regards to budget @ all the time, while US is wasting their money on something useless like an f35 that dose not out preform 4+ or++ fen fighters, read the news all the defense money spent and now even the navy cut their order of f35’s to ~39…
the problem with USA is that Companies like Lockheed are stuffing down the pentagons throat lemons not fighters and that is where all the money goes
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/04/25/boeing-builds-the-navy-an-f35c-exit-strategy.html?comp=7000023317828&rank=1
http://rt.com/
“The Navy’s decision to reduce its F-35C five-year acquisition plan from 69 to 36 aircraft over the past year …”
good article i guess even the navy is wakeing up
idk if you guys remember the airforce competition project for a new bomber- locheed martin+boeng vs Northrop
they already started apparently…
so i have dug some more and all the wind tunnel models were competing with eachother for the best model of a “flying wing plane” that the russian author thinks that will be a very early iteration of the pak-da






artsts interpretation of pak-da
m-19 (never made)
interesting idea – still leans toward swept wing + “body wing” design

another prototype model apparently shown to Medvedev. looks similar to the german bomber
Russian mig drone that also follows the flying wing trend (skat)






i think that a combo of all these technologies will be in pak-da
i know this is a picture thread but this video is awesome
a little promo of the pakfa


looks like the 2nd prototype..

perhaps a smoke screen against airborne anti ship missiles or a heat seeking preventative shield
engine design for it?? of course all this is just rumors this is supposedly the engine design


the edges of this look like american (f35/f22) technology – im not sure about it
further PAK-da possible variants based on the research they have done…


just got an interesting article
apparently the Russians and long been testing “flying wing designs”







this was supposed to be the russians reply to the b2, that never happened it was called “Project 202”
source: http://paralay.com/bomb.html
so do you think that the vietnameese pics are the closest to the “real” one, or the news people have no pic’s to show thats when they plug in a totally different aircraft into their articles? 🙂