Su-35S cockpit

[ATTACH=CONFIG]225678[/ATTACH]

Courtesy of Fyodor Borisov 🙂

Guys, any news of the Ka-62 or its militarized version? I read somewhere that it should start with test flights very soon.

Does it have a blessing from the military/government?
Is there a real need for this bird? (from mine standpoint there is, but again I am neither the RuAF or the Russian Ground Forces)
Will they enlarge the cabin, use Russian made power plants?

Where’s the PROOF?

You don’t have anything except nationalistic claims.

You are the one who claimed at first that the Russian Army had numerical superiority, and not the TR1. Therefore, you should’ve brought up the evidence (the ORBAT or whatever credible info).

Have you ever read this? http://www.cast.ru/files/The_Tanks_of_August_sm_eng.pdf

In case you didn’t, please read it. It is the most detailed and credible publication on the 08/08/08 conflict so far.

There, you will see which Russian troops were present at the time of the attack (peacekeeping forces and their equipment). Which Georgian units conducted the assault, which Russian units first came to help… and what is most important for this conversation, you will see when the Georgians started to flee (and who had numerical superiority at that moment).

I downloaded this one few years ago – I knew you would ask for it one day :love-struck: :highly_amused:

Joke aside, there are very few photos of this bird with nuclear ordnance on the net (taking into consideration that WE.177 had been retired by 1998).

[ATTACH=CONFIG]216854[/ATTACH]

It’s just two different routes really. From what I gather katran is some kind of proto-Slavic for something (like soil) seeping with a thick dark fluid, tar-like, wet coal, like bitumen or what have you. For reference:
http://www.slovopedia.com/22/202/1634761.html

I don’t know of any contemporary Russian word that directly traces back to that particular piece of etymology but it seems to be incredibly old and well established in certain Slavic contexts.

As far as the Ka-52K is concerned the name is obviously taken from an order of sharks (Squaliformes) that are called katran in both Russian and Ukrainian (a word that is probably derived from the Greek word for the same shark, κεντρόνι/kentroni, which I would guess, I’m not entirely sure, itself derives from the term stinging/to sting – κεντύ, as the sharks in question tend to possess stinger-like venomous spines).

But venomous spines aside, these sharks are tiny and not very intimidating. The venom in question is mild as well, bee sting-like tops. Then again a certain amount of modesty is always good, quite unlike the mighty dragons and blades of thunderous glory that we keep hearing about. Is it just me or does that kind of have an effect opposite to what is (presumably) intended? :p

My Goodness Doctor, I enjoyed reading this 😀 :p

Yes it is.

The first Ka-62 was civilian version of the Ka-60 (military version). Military version first flew in 1998 and the program was ongoing at a slow pace till one of the prototypes crashed. In the meantime, the “original” Ka-62, never flew. But, it lately evolved into something more modern and should fly this year. New militarized version of this evolved Ka-62 is in the pipeline (for both VVS and VMF) and should follow its civilian sibling if everything goes as planned.

I don’t think so

The improved R-73 variant, which at one time was called the R-74 and is now being offered for export as the RVV-MD, “is everything that a close-combat AAM should be in terms of performance,” the designer said.

Source: http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?id=1065972200

I’m lucky enough to be around Salon on Thursday, Friday this week. Is there any chance the Patrouille will be up practicing?

Any help gatefully received.:)

I’m not sure for the Patrouille de France but I’ve seen some regular Adl’A Alpha Jets doing some stunts while I was passing by. One of them was flying so low and slow over the highway that I was able to see its serials. Luckily I wasn’t driving, otherwise I would have crushed into somebody.