It almost looks as though the whole cockpit can be curtained off – sides and front 😮

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I guess providing toilet is not all, they added curtains for sleeping as well. :confused:

Excellent photos.

Try dx*SUM([function values]).

I have been trying to figure out…:o But We have standard filter/summer/shifter/integrator etc blocks with our Engineering SW @Work which is making me retarded these days. You would know Simulink, Copy and paste Blocks …

Full book found here. Interesting…

True, the plan as it stands now is pretty sound, but a lot of time and money was wasted along the extraordinarily convoluted way which led there. Some projects which should not have survived are still around and most of the others were delayed more than necessary.

Indeed, the consolidation of various OKBs should be a step in the right direction I feel, since money is not unlimited to support multiple OKBs developing overlapping product lines. KTRV, UAC, ODK, Almaz Antey etc needs to compete on the international market besides RuMOD orders. I would say UAC and Almaz Antey are doing OK for the time being.

A very strange claim. The top-speed of every fighter is limited by the propulsion system at first. It can accellerate as long as surplus thrust is not even out by drag. At supersonic speeds most of the trust is not generated by the engine but by the inlet- and outlet-system at first. The inlet-system is the limiting thrust factor for every fighter and by that the top speed. To install a higher thrust engine will change nothing about that.
The JF-17 is an excellent example about that. The original unregulated inlet gave a design top speed of Mach 1,6. The modification of that inlet by DSI rose that design top-speed to Mach 1,8.
Every fighter with an unregulated inlet-system has a design top-speed given from the inlet design. That value allows some divergations from that due to atmospheric conditions. Related to that every fighter can be a bit slower or faster on every day not showing the “standard day” conditions. But that divergations go not behind +/- 10% in general. Just test pilots are looking for that to explore the maximum and minimum flight envelope of a clean fighter, when front-line pilots will never come close to that with some military equipment fitted. All claims of test pilots about speed are useless without all details of that very flight. The “redline” is no absolute limit just the limit of the flight-envelope freed for daily use and a safety margin as well.

That is what I meant :). The redline is a self imposed limit that you don’t keep crossing all the time thereby putting unnecessary fatigue on the airframe. an airframe designed for M1.5 cannot be flown at M2.5 and pulling the same Gs even if you have surplus engine thrust. e.g. Even if you can pull big Gs on a light transport it is not done because some day structures fail for no reason. Add the loadout to that and structural failures are bound to happen. e.g. The SR 71 has a G Limit of 1.5G/-0.1G @ M3. It has better G ratings @subsonic (Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission By Richard H. Graham. P 69). Strengthening the structures increase weight and affects TWR.

Striking land bases might involve lots of collateral damage as these pirates are not exactly Al Qaeda. The remedy lies in overhauling their economy but it is an ugly job and no one wants to get involved. 🙁 . But when they cross the line someone has to act. It is ugly in any case.

Or maybe to hide from Maverick when he tries to give the birdie … :p Russians knew Maverick would be back…
Or to avoid sun burn.

But won’t they have other problems besides the super brilliant flash in case of nuke detonation. They would need different paint and stuff for the 34 itself. Most likely the 34 will carry only tactical nukes. Strategic nukes will most likely be ALCMs.

I am signing off from this thread. Nothing is wrong with the topic but Its tooooo