the x-32 is so weird looking (not ugly, poor thing) it is actually very attractive ! :dev2:

along with the nighthawk and the spirit, it would have given US forces an unearthly look more like an alien force !

anyway, I find the raptor pretty uninspiring and common looking.

thanks a lot arthur and roberto !

the chinese and the egyptian kills are well known, so I didn’t ask about them.

what are the timelines of the other countries’ kills (saudi), and could I get the opponents too (in case of SAfrica and Venezuela) if that’s not too much effort ?

btw, bronco’s not a jet ! :p

regards !

Now read the last part of the article. It talks about the revival of vympel’s missile program. this means that basically even though the KS-172 program is abandoned, the need for a long range AAM is not. Instead of Novator, it’ll be Vympel making it.

:rolleyes:
oh dear ! vympel is a competitor for the same slot. all the more reason to disbelieve this report ! this is like coke telling that the a new diet pepsi will not materialize.:p
AFAIR, even at the last MAKS the novator missile was displayed. although it is called k-100 or something like that nowadays.
unless there is an announcement from novator, almey antaz or the RuAF, the programme is going along.
regards.

GOT A LINK? :rolleyes:

now, where is that rotflmao smily when you need one ??
😀

do you know that vympel are novator are two different companies ??

I mean think about it, even their names are different !! what is so hard ?

anyway, I do agree that

….
further discussion are useless.

with you at any rate ! 😉

cheers !

for easy identification ? perhaps the cross glows in the dark ?

thanks guys.

And the best of the best….bend the wingtips downward, removing the tail, but for that you should need some king of dogtooth,is a weird design, is not so simple as you can figure at first, and is not easy as saying “bend the wing” because you will get some aerodynamic problems (althought these problems could be just solved with some kind of hole/slot in the bended wing joint area)

But as franc said it depends in the wave’s angle of incidence

Forget about FBW, it doesn’t solve the real problems

from an ameteurish POV, there would also be structural problems in that configuration. due to stress i.e