For the PAK-FA i’d expect far better intake and fuselage shaping to allow for a convoluted duct.

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DSI intake JF-17 Thunder (4th prototype) developed by RSK MiG/TsAGI.

Expect something far more sophisticated for PAK-FA considering it’s likely to have intake-embedded weapons bays.:cool:

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Two recently released (though early research) PAK-FA wind-tunnel model pics.

Jane’s on Kh-101:

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/systems/jdw/jdw071022_1_n.shtml

… But even so, theres a long way till the IAF approaches the manner in which the USAF looks within the US for its requirements and supports it to the hilt. Not to mention the funding that has enabled that kind of development within the US.

That would be the all-encompassing, all-pervasive MIC of the US (consolidated after the Cold War), and its constituent representation in Congress (and dare I say it- the White House) that provides support to the hilt and even squanders billions- hardly a model for the World’s largest democracy.

I’d say China is an interesting model as it expands and modernises its defence-tech/production sector in parallel with it’s civilian industrial base.
The arms embargo only increases pressure for indigenisation & efficiency, whether legal (licence production, COTS/dual-use) or ‘other’ means- blatantly reverse-engineered copies. I bet the Russians love the embargo as much as EADS detests it.

I think the Indians are going about things the right way (i.e. 50% offset), if you compare with the recent Saudi ‘purchase’ of Typhoons where the entire support structure will be supplanted with very little economic benefit locally.
The PAK-FA will be a huge leap forward for Indian Aerospace tech. & industry.

…maybe you might as well stop believing anything published in any journal, because once in a while, even the best get it wrong.

Yeah, two months ago AW&ST reported that the Su-35BM would have to be rebranded the PAK-FA as a face saving exercise by Sukhoi!! -at worst high octane stupidity, at best a serious editorial gaffe.

Congratulations to India for entering the PAK-FA programme btw. In reponse to Jai above, there is no question of redesign, the distinct timelines indicate a significant ToT refusal, with Indian indigenisation & customisation of probably everything other than airframe & engines.

Nevertheless, it’s going to be an interesting programme, a win-win for both nations.:)

OH NOOOOO!!! Li Dongsheng, spokesman for the Communist Party’s 17th Congress, says China will NEVER have a Western-style democracy- “…we will never copy the Western model of political system”.

Wynne you were right!! Better pump that F-35 production line, better pump it reeeeal goooood!! YEEEEEE-HAAAAAAA!!!!!!

this i remember very well and i felt the design was ‘out of this world’ back then. boy, missed the good old days…

Yeah, this impression is from ‘SMP’ 1987 I think, it was based on grainy test-flight footage of the ‘Flanker-A’ (T-10, the one that had to be extensively redesigned). Nice find btw.

I’m hoping that with the imminent announcement of Indian PAK-FA co-operation in Moscow, some simplified impression of it will be released by month’s-end.

You can define it! You add one point for each time you read second best AA fighter on the inturrnet. 😮

You’re right, that’s the point system the Japanese & Australian air forces must use, when the former are denied the F-22 and the latter can’t afford it.

Notwithstanding the fact that the RAAF consider their SHs as a ‘stop-gap’ for the F-35- which, incidently, many consider as “not superior enough” to late-gen. Su-30/35s that will be deploying in-theatre in a decade.

http://www.domain-b.com/industry/defence/20071012_development.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPIF2JvVpek