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April 16, 2008 at 5:44 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2470379

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:confused:
WHAT?! That´s new, never heard it…
Any source for that claim? 😀

Apologies, I should have said ‘Matra’ (now MBDA):

http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jalw/jalw3025.html

http://www.onera.fr/conferences-en/ramjet-scramjet-pde/

🙂

April 16, 2008 at 11:41 am in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2470462

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This is the ‘Meteor’, however expect the R-77M to be virtually identical as the Russians had highly secretive collabarative Ramjet/Scramjet ventures with MBDA up until the mid ’90s (wouldn’t expect trademark lattice fins though).

April 15, 2008 at 6:22 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2470656

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This guy must be dreaming about the aircraft every night…

Man, if you lived in Nizhny Novgorod you’d be heavily reliant on your imagination to get you through the days (and nights) too.

April 15, 2008 at 12:33 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2470724

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Has anybody saw what picture KNAAPO use for their PAC FA section?
http://www.knaapo.ru/eng/index.wbp

Yes.[GROAN!!!!!]:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

April 15, 2008 at 11:10 am in reply to: Fulcrum Questions #2470745

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The ‘MiG-35’ is a single MiG-29M2 with some stenciling on the side that reads ‘MiG-35’ and that’s all it’ll ever be.

April 14, 2008 at 9:42 pm in reply to: What if: Su-47 and Mikoyan Project 1.44 #2470897

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“So Mr. Gant… like our new toy?”

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April 14, 2008 at 8:42 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2470913

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It is fake , crafted by a member here and was rubbish .

Hardly crafted, bring_it_on, he forgot Comrade Putin’s termination fee.

April 14, 2008 at 12:29 pm in reply to: What if: Su-47 and Mikoyan Project 1.44 #2470992

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Imho, the 1.44 is the personification of Russian scepticism of the performance trade-off of all-out stealth in the 1980s. They must have had a rude awakening when the US rolled out the YF-22 & 23, having said that, a production model would have wiped the floor with the Eurocanards.

By the time the $ became available the MFI tender was obsolete, meanwhile the rivals Sukhoi were gaining the ‘ear’ of MPs in the Duma & demonstrating healthy turnovers to Rosoboronexport (primarily through Su-30 sales).

The internally funded S-37 was an impressive demonstration of what Sukhoi could do with limited in-house (non-Govt.) funding and short time-scale. The ‘Su-47’ was just a marketing gimmick in that at no time did the RuAF consider it as a viable 5th gen fighter. It did however hypnotise the MoD into awarding the new PAK-FA tender to Sukhoi, which by 2003 was a one horse race, as MiG simply couldn’t fund R&D into a ‘clean-sheet’ PAK-FA contender and presented a re-hashed 1.44.

It appears Sukhoi’s benchmark is the F-22, we wait with baited breath 🙂

April 13, 2008 at 7:36 pm in reply to: F-22A Pics, News & Speculations Thread #2471131

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Dont know the status of the project , but the new bomber research is not for the intermediate bomber IIRC but for the full on replacement (with requirments Different to what were from an intermedia bomber). Jumper is gone and it seems that with him so has the Intermediate FB-22/FB23 concept .

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2004146205_boebomber25.html

http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2008/2/1/boeing-lockheed-join-forces-to-compete-for-bomber/

I think there’s some confusion regarding my definition ofintermediate, apologies. I think we mean the same thing as in F1-11 class/2,000nm UCR bomber to undertake strike roles of today’s F-15E/18E/117 possibly B1-B, but not B-2- as that would be strategic and will serve SAC way beyond 2018.

The ADVENT engine programme sounds pretty interesting, have to follow that one.

April 13, 2008 at 7:25 pm in reply to: ASCC still in operation? #2471138

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Flatpack, though not the all-out stealth fighter like the F-22/YF-23, certainly conceptually leagues ahead of it’s contemporary Eurocanards.

Is it at Monino now, or still locked away somewhere in Zhukovsky?

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April 13, 2008 at 5:25 pm in reply to: F-22A Pics, News & Speculations Thread #2471186

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Mainly that the YF-22 and lockheeds team came across as a less risky solution financially to the YF23 and NG team … eagerly await the day when we will have a FB-23 🙂

Agreed, though awarding both ATB & ATF tenders to NG may have been seen as too industrialy/politically sensitive. I did read somewhere that NG bigwigs felt that the actual technical/performance evaluations had been deliberately biased against them, but I guess we’ll never fully know the truth.

Is the FB-23 a realistic possiblilty? for the USAF Intermediate Stealth Bomber? cause I thought it was likely to be based on a manned X-47B type configuration.

April 13, 2008 at 1:51 pm in reply to: F-22A Pics, News & Speculations Thread #2471243

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I disagree…………..the F-35 looks like a mean little bird of prey coming in for the kill!:diablo:

It looks like a pigeon.

The F-22 looks the business though, and it would have been nice to see how the definitive YF-23 would have shaped-up. They never said why it lost the ATF comp. did they? unacceptable risk/cost management for an aircraft way ahead of its time? or plain politics.

April 13, 2008 at 1:05 am in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2471305

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I doubt Su-35 will go into Ruaf inventory as it is unfimilair to airforce. Two upgraded MIG-31 is already at final operational status. u already have 200KM missile along with more powerful radar, high speed/altitude with MIG-31.

Star, the translated article on the MiG-31 is 18 months old, I’m not sure as to how many upgraded 31BMs have been delivered (if any), though the upgrade programme has commenced.

Afaik, the RuAF has already placed an initial order for the Su-35, hence the internal designation Su-27SM2. As for 117C -it will probably be retro-fitted to the Su-34 also (or the uprated Salyut AL-31FM3), regardless of maintenance familiarities- they’ll simply have to be re-trained. Incidently, Pogosyan stated the Su-34 is to receive an active array when ready.

As UAZ said earlier, the Su-27SM2 is considered a supplement to the more capable and expensive PAK-FA, and not merely a stop-gap.

April 12, 2008 at 5:22 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2471391

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Lets , you claim an SU-35 to be still LO with R-77 hanging but the F-35 somehow looses its LO with meteors ?

When is R-77 ramjet expected to be IN SERVICE ? I can provide timeline and budgetary alocation for the Metoer and AIm-120 D .

Dedicated Air dominance fighters will always be better for PURE AIR SUPERIORITY MISSIONS then MULTI – ROLE aircraft , however multi role aircrafts can provide flexiblity that in a constrained budget can be very beneficial .

But he’s your best Pal 😉

I make Anti Matter just like dan brown talked about 🙂
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Sorry, Bring_It_On, an admirer of the F-22 I am (even a fanboy of the YF-23), but alas a fan of the F-35- I am not, hence the negative slant on my opinions.

Treating Su-35 with LO materials/ intake baffles/ LPI etc. would be an effort to reduce (its considerable) RCS. Hanging Meteors off JSF’s wings- defeats (or at the very least compromises) the raison d’etre of the aircraft.

Ramjet R-77M has been in development for some time, flight-tests are imminent with in service likely around 2015 or sooner. I wouldn’t expect the Su-27SM2 to enter service with yesterday’s weapons. Even China has a ramjet AMRAAM type about to start testing.

Do you think they teach the LaPlace tranform on the electronics course on Planet Stupid? -I shouldn’t think they’d need it up there, huh?

April 12, 2008 at 3:21 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode III #2471441

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i now work in the electronics industry and am doing really rather well for myself by anyones standards.

Of course you do, Red Neck, and I’m Chief Scientist of the LHC project at CERN.
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