I mean comments like these!

HuntingHawk I don’t ignore anything, we have a system which you can follow if you don’t succeed at first.

please forgive me if I don’t have unlimited sangfroid, especially when packs of trolls regularly wreck India related threads and moderators respond by closing their eyes towards their efforts and to top it all an otherwise valuable thread gets ‘hidden’ as punishment, which is precisely what the trolls were after in the first place.
effectively, this means that India related threads are fair game, the trollers will also enjoy some amount of protection to do their activity.
there’s a much easier if less politically correct way of doing this, you can simply say that India related threads are not welcome on keypubs.

I know that this is perhaps not deliberate policy but if you bother to check the history of past few IAF threads this is certainly how things evolved.

4th-gen planes are Drag-optimized(low stealth) and 5th gen planes are Stealth optimized(higher drag).

not so simple as that. any lowering of aerodynamic qualities (which isn’t huge to begin with. maintaining this balance is a big part of 5gen aircraft designing) is more than offset by the full internal weapons carriage. all 4gen fighters, however well finished their profiles might be, pay a hefty penalty for all those stores and EFTs hanging outside.

as for kaveri-M-88, you are assuming they will produce an engine of the same class. if the demands are of a higher powered engine kaveri folks will know that quite well, better than the EJ walas and will design it accordingly.
it will be major work no doubt, but this project is supposed to be a major one, not just an improvement of what’s already in place.

I didn’t mean flamebaiting yourself, I meant sending a PM to one of the moderators.

I didn’t mean flamebaiting myself too. I said

……..but you never reported…….

I did. a number of times in the first few pages. since nothing was done I didn’t bother any more. please do check the closed/deleted reports.

I suppose this is used to report disrupting posts ?

so unless reporting button is used to flamebait around here, I’m at a loss to understand your comment.
regards.

Deino, I think you will love this ! 😉

I used the one picture where the plane is shown taxing, from the side, and there are a bunch of people arond it, in front, behind it, etc. From so many people one can deduce the average height. Now *IF* the average height is 1.80 meters, then the plane seems to be around 18 meters long, from the tip of the nose (without the pitot tube) to the tip of the tail sting. Also, it would appear height from the landing gear tyres to the tip of the vertical stabilizators is some 4.7 meters. Now, if we take those values for granted and use them on the picture where we have the plane flying in the air, seem almost from above, we can kind of deduce the wingspan – which would be around 14 meters.

Comments?

good job.
assuming you are correct in the measurements, these are the flanker figures for comparison.

* Length: 21.9 m (72 ft)
* Wingspan: 14.7 m (48 ft 3 in)
* Height: 5.92 m (19 ft 6 in)

as this bird is smaller, looks slimmer than the flanker and uses quite a lot of composites by comparison, I would wildly guess its empty weight will be around 13-14 t to the su-27’s 16+, which fits in with the statement that it’s weight will be more than mig-29 (11 t) but less than flanker.

So does Paralay 😉

:diablo:

this situation won’t have happened if repeated trolling and flamebaiting by a few members were disallowed in the first place.

doping nothing against the disruptors and ‘punishing’ the regular contributors by hiding the thread sounds like strange policy.

^^ ability to operate from semi-prepared air strips. 2 wheels = less pressure = less chance your front wheel gets stuck or bursts.