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February 26, 2008 at 6:57 pm in reply to: the PAK-FA saga, continued2…… #2495039

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🙂

Ho-Ho-Ho, Tee-Hee!! I smoked you out Mr. Paralay!
Could you do one based on the NPO Saturn impression but with underside & in particular, intakes based on the YF-23? (I had a dream ya see)

Thankyou!…I mean Spaseeba!!

February 26, 2008 at 6:14 pm in reply to: the PAK-FA saga, continued2…… #2495050

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It is now almost definitely known that PAK-FA will be capable to carry heavy missiles of “R-37 class” internally. Speculations claim that it will be possible six of them to be carried, also as another option eight middle range “AIM-120 class” instead (non lattice fins), or mixed – three + four. The number of the short range missiles is unknown. The suggestions are for four, “ASRAAM class”. Which makes exactly 12 missiles internally as an option.

Internal carriage of 12 missiles means big bay(s), meaning big aircraft, meaning not F-35 class.

“Not knowing is like a bitter pill- yet knowing could be worse still!..”
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February 26, 2008 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Su-35 first flight #2495161

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RuAF places order for Su-27SM2 (Su-35):
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/02/25/221770/sukhoi-su-35-1-makes-first-flight.html

February 25, 2008 at 9:21 pm in reply to: INS Vikramaditya delayed until 2011! #2090978

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Do you have the final details of the Mig-29K sold to India?

Considering the Russians flew a MiG-35 to AeroIndia 2007, it’s clearly their intent to sell it to the Indians. This means they can just as easily offer them the Zhuk AE radar instead of the ME variant.

Not to mention, even if the F-18E were to have the (potentially faulty) APG-79, the MiG does have, like star49 mentioned, various ECM/jamming defense measures.

Simply assuming by anyone here that the F-18E would have better electronics / radar than an upgraded MiG is just biased BS.

I have to agree, the Indian Navy footed the bill to have the ’29K programme restarted & redesigned, for them to request the Zhuk AE is logical as the in-service date of the carrier has slipped again.

Phazotron may plead for extra Indian funding to mature the radar (the only working AESA presented at AeroIndia’07), and I’m sure some cost compromise will be reached as Phazotron struggles to survive as an independant radar house, which will be further compounded by the MiG-35’s failure to win the MMRCA tender- as now appears likely.
Alternatively, a jv with Elta is possible, regardless I think it’s a foregone conclusion that IN ’29Ks will have AESAs.

February 25, 2008 at 8:19 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2495473

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Four “redundant” computers tied to a single resistor on a hot circuit board?! D’oh! 😮

You’d think the redundancy on a plane worth it’s weight in gold would be ‘bulletproof’…anyways, if the USAF needs a good cover (up) story it can use my ‘Fisticuffs on the Flighdeck’ theory, but not Mel Brooks- from him I want big royalties.

February 25, 2008 at 7:08 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2495511

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Early days, but possible cause of crash:

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2008/02/b2-crash-revives-memory-of-199.html

February 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2495634

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It kind of looks like the B-2 is flying on pixie dust like Tinker Bell. 🙂

Hey! Hey! I’m just relaying some speculation that some (including seasoned observers like Sweetman AW&ST and Gunston JAWA) subscribe to or think plausible.

The entire aircraft is a lifting device, but that doesn’t disguise the fact it’s T/Wr is a mere 0.2.

I never said I was there when the dialectric was being installed, pretending to check the tyre pressures- OR WAS I??!! heheheheheheheheheheh-aaaaaaAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

February 24, 2008 at 9:39 pm in reply to: INS Vikramaditya delayed until 2011! #2091443

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Ah, I get sea-sick anyways…

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February 24, 2008 at 1:51 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2496092

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Hmm look at the weight of the aircraft and the thrust of the engines… it doesn’t match with any other bomber, it looks very underpowered. 😉

cheers

Yes indeedy!!

February 23, 2008 at 9:42 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2496333

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This is reminiscent of Michael Bay’s take on the attack on Pearl Harbor–you should overnight a script to him, pronto.

Well, if there is an “anti-grav” device in there, then it must not do a whole lot, all things considered.

I was thinking more Mel Brooks assisted by John Woo.

Anyways, I don’t know about anti-grav but I heard a rumour that the B-2 ionises the air passing over it’s full span leading edge, offering considerable aerodynamic advantages.

February 23, 2008 at 7:04 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2496415

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What, were they still fighting on the ground after they ejected? 🙂 Perhaps they were members of the “Mile-High Fight Club” but were too eager to get started. 😉

…and the first rule of Fight Club is…

No but seriously, here’s my take on events: on the take-off run Pilot 1 called Pilot 2 a nickname that only P2’s wife calls him, realising his catastrophic mistake of blown infidelility, and using the ethos of the B-2 as a formidable first strike weapon, P1 lays into P2 with everything he’s got- to no avail. P2’s a former USAF kick-boxing champ & highly trained scientologist and pulverises P1.
P1 coughs up blood, spits out his teeth, and gurgles some nice (but rude) things about P2’s wife, jams the throttle setting, smiles (sort of) and ejects…P1 follows suite. The fight continues briefly on the ground (as correctly envisioned by DorkMatter) against a backdrop of flames & smoke, until the emergency services arrive.

Plausible right? I mean stranger things have happened- just look at that crazy female NASA astronaut who tried to murder everyone in sight. I thank you.

February 23, 2008 at 6:14 pm in reply to: B-2 Crashes in Guam #2496438

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Wrong, it was a “B-3”, to be more “sleek and mean” as the B-2…! 😉

…maybe a fight broke out on the flight deck…still at $1.2 billion apiece- ouch!!

February 22, 2008 at 11:24 pm in reply to: Su-35 first flight #2496730

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Probably low level gust load alleviation (think B-1B) and field performance.

Yeah, and “the front horizontal empennage behind the cockpit (whatever that is!) is designed to help it handle the air pockets found in high speed flight at low altitude…” I think it uses rudder-deflection airbrakes also.
Regardless, it’s gonna need all the help it can get flying in automatic TERCOM mode.

It’s also likely to be the first recipient of the license produced (by UOMZ) Thales ‘Damocles’ targeting/reconnaissance pod. Oh, and if Chinese fora chatter is anything to go by, this is the aircraft the PLAAF/PLAAN is itching to get its hands on.

February 22, 2008 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Su-35 first flight #2496798

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Mmmm…..that kick-ass Su-34…
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February 21, 2008 at 11:17 pm in reply to: F-16IN latest version of F-16 #2497161

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Are you sure about that engine?

Besides, F-16’s out of the question because pakistan operates it, LM’s best chance would have been an F-35 tie-in on price & ToT but with spiralling costs and sensitivities over tech (remember UK source-code sharing saga?)- it’s a no-no.

Up until recently I would have said Boeing’s SH was front-runner, but with the Australian debate, the bid’s taken a serious hit, which is a shame ’cause it’s arguably the most capable warplane on offer.

The Rafale’s highly unlikely, what would the french unions make of the offsets? Gripen falls in Tejas class.
Hence, imho, the Eurofighter comes to the fore, especially as EADS can probably offer the most lucrative economic offsets whether civil or military.
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