whatever it is Hornets enjoyed that 5000+ kg of internal fuel (if am not wrong) very early and that impress me most, coz of its comparatively small airframe. But the E/F version has more like 6000+ kg of internal fuel (but also 1 +m extra length), but the new ‘stealthy’ pylons has caused more drag and the fuel advantage is not to be seen in its range.

where as the new MiG-29M2 has a 5,600Kg internal fuel and 6,500 Kg of weapons load. where as the K version has it with 5,100 Kg internal fuel and 5,500 Kg of weapons load.

And thats what I’d have loved to see impreov on the MiG … a weapons load of atleast 6,500 Kg (on K) and a fuel load like the Super Hornets 6,000+ Kg.
But then considering that air-launched 2 x Klub (future) wud very much come within that 5,500 Kg weapons load range, that number is still good enough.

And i fail to understand the mods who deleted the AIDS campain from me??…. but failed to deleted the message on which I based it. Are u guys having a condom manufacturing unit , there by the vigrous campaigners like the blah blah channel, MTV etc etc …. USE CONDOM PREVENT AIDS????

Its really PITY. NOW some ____ wud delete this one too. SHAME ON YOU!

Great, more waste in the space. Why investing in another expensive goodie while there are few to use. Just to get milimeter accuracy or to avoid problems when US shuts the system down?

yes, and w/o any time loss every effort muct be made to stop any new system aka Galileo.

GLONASS was already there and now its under repair to say so. So u must focus on any further new systems.

Also to avoid putting more junk, u can even stop the Unkil from launching further satellites from the current 24 to 30, and if possible, maintain the level of the constellation in its logical end, i.e w/o any further launch, so that more junks can be avoided. That will help in only newere satellites constellation – GLONASS – being the sole Global nav network. That will help a lot!

I don think so, though its rumoured, RAC-MiG is not gonna simply leave – probably their best bet of 5th Gen – like that, but the Yakolev’s design for the JSF is a different story.

It’s good to see that F-18E/F was not choosen to compare with a very formidable a/c like the new MiG-29M2, after all the Super Hornets only recently got the 60 era Soviet super tech to keep it in Air. For the MiGs , even though fall the basic items like the multchromatic displays , FBW etc etc was to get-on to earlier Mig’s, the financial crisis delayed it.

I hope BR dont have these pictures, so they can get in this too in the Gorshkov section. Along with the info of the Boilers to get in more details abt the work going on the Gorshkov

also for the other experts in here who had challenged the Indian Naval delegations clearing the Gorshkov fit for IN, by concluding that Gorshkov hull was …… in such a bad condition etc etc …. but i can say they never had seen it, maybe with this wud be the pics that had come out in recent times of the Gorshkov ?

these two are actually the same, isn’t it??……. except for a small difference with a more angled stablisers, a bit different canopy and possible the wing root (?) ….

Sean ,

yes, i think its gonna bsed on the S-47 with a conventional backward swept wing …… i mostly believe the Pak-Fa is gonna resemble the conventional swept winged like what the right side drawing shows, a CG image is also there below along with the F-22, which means ….. it cud actually be nearer to this one ……