Dooing a little google, i woul say in french, i propose:

http://aircraftstories.free.fr/mono/4000/pages/pages.htm

in english:

http://home.iae.nl/users/wbergmns/info/mir4000.htm

Interesting configuration. Wonder how the airflow to the intakes behave at an certainly unavoidable angle of attack?

PAK-FA

PAK-FA means [Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsyi] or in english Future Air Complex for Tacti-cal Air Forces

It represents the desperate try to keep the rusian (fighter-) aircraft industry alive by developing a 5. generation fighter (however you might define this…) under the lead of Sukhoi.

For more info read
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/pak-fa.htm
http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/jdw/jdw010626_2_n.shtml
http://www.aviationnow.com/content/ncof/ncf_n73.htm

it could look something like this:

X-43A first successful flight

Opposite to milavia I find the X-43 not boring at all, but one of the most interesting current air-craft project. Breaking existent barriers always is a challenge, and to settle new speed records is a particular one! Just remember all the webpages about the blackbird…
The fact that this record has been achieved by a pilotless aircraft just shows the way research is done today – thanks to micro- and computer-technologie there is no need for testpilot-‘heros” any more.

For the next step, the X-43C, Boeing has allredy announced the use of a hydrocarbon fuel rather than gaseous hydrogen as in the X-43A, which will permit engine test time measured in minutes rather than the seconds available with the X-43A

And for the last of the X-43 family, it was decciden to use a rocket-base combined-cycle engine (RBCC) instead of a SCRAM, which could deliver power already at zero speed, and also has the possibility to work in heights where the density of the air is not sufficient (through additional oxigen), which could open the access to space.
It also will be a great challenge to master the further steps, e.g to recover the craft after a test flight instad of loosing it.

Attached a pic of the X-43C:

FB-22 – to much of a compromise

I think there is no use in trying to make a bomber out of the F/A-22. It would be wiser to make a new aircraft by using as many components and subassemblies (e.g. the engines…) from the F/A-22 and – if possible – from other aircrafts.

What made me quite sure this picture is CompuGraphic, based on a 3D model, is the fact that I saw the same aircraft from a different angle of view in another place

(on http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Sept02/VA0210.html)

There the aircraft was called “LRSA concept”

At least a new AURORA thread!! (… for those not willing to believe that nothing exists up in the air that is not officially approved by the authorities)

to ForkTailedDevil:
One of the more popular doctored “photos” of Aurora, in an attempt to accompany Chris Gib-son’s report. This was once referred to as a sighting over Australia
This “photomontage” was created by Bill Rose as a depiction of what a former Royal Observer Corps team member spotted from a North Sea oil drilling platform in 1989. That sighting is con-sidered the most reputable sighting report of its kind, as well as the only truly credible piece of evidence for the existence of the Aurora.
This is not a photograph, although it is easily mistaken for one. It is simply a visual rendering of what might have been seen over the North Sea. The image depicts the Aurora at the bottom of the image, escorted by two U.S. F-111s at upper left, and taking on fuel from a U.S. KC-135 tanker.
On at least one occasion, this image was mistaken for a real photo by a member of the “super-market press.” The image was sent to the British magazine named “UFO Encounters,” which paraded it on its February 1996 cover with the byline, “UFO Escort Picture: We Unveil New Evi-dence Of This US Cover-Up.” On another occasion, an almost identical image was publicized as a sighting over Australia.

to flex297
I’ve never seen the russian pic – so could you post it, please?

To fantasma_337:
I suppose you mean the attached pic on which you can see a black triangle aircraft (A-17?, F-121?, Astra? Sentinel? ….), which is most probably CG
For further information read http://www.aemann.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/aircraft/black/aurora/aurora6.htm