Frankly, I would be surprised if Russia has the capability of designing something as stealthy as a Raptor even decades behind. I expect the PAKFA to be much inferior in stealth shapewise, as well as IR (considering how the F-22 cools its exhaust)…

…somewhere between and EF and a Raptor but less than the later.

Well me i’m no aviation engineer or whatever , but i would expect the Su-27/F-15A story being repeated again…The Su will have a better airframe-more aerodinamically efficient, more manoeuvrable, more agile etc, while the electronics will be almost as good …
Most importantly , it will be much cheaper, maby half the price of an F-22, offering perhaps 90% of its capability …so it would be a better bang for the buck! ( so what you would have , Raptors or twice as many T-50s 90% as good as the F-22?:p)

Just my humble opinion…

According to latest information it will be Сергей Богдан, the same test-pilot who took up the new Su-35.

Thanks for the info. Well good luck to Mr. Serghei Bogdan then, here’s for a safe and uneventful flight!

Btw with all the excitement and expectations , wouldnt be awful to see a post tommorow morning saying ” Nope , not today , TOMMOROW!” 😀

Anyway lets hope tommorow is the big day.

Terribly interesting photos and story, Jetman-2! What chaff&flare dispensers are those , are they israely MPMS-36(V) units?

Looking forward to updates in this topic !

Its indeed R-77 ,H-31 (most likely the ARM H-31P) and H-58 , also ARM…which makes you think , this bird fits perfectly as a replacement for the Mig-25BM…which probably its the main role envisaged in the eventuality that RuAF presses on with Mig-31 in air-to-ground aswell…

Me i havent seen anything else air-to-ground under a Mig-31 so far , tho descriptions of the upgraded models mention the posibility to carry a whole range of guided missiles and bombs…

Official version is to test the new technologies to improve the efficiency of the modern aircrafts. It count T-10-26 or Su-27LL-UV (KS) with a round shaped TVC nozzle, T-10-16 or Su-27UB blue 08 or Su-27LL-UV (PS) with the flat TVC nozzle and Su-27LL-OS for the tests of the aft-firing R-73.

Sorry for being a bit offtopic , but Matej would you have more information on the Su-27LL-OS that was suposed to test rear firing R-73s? Any more infos , maby pics from the trials other that the well known blurry black and white pic floating around the net ?( i’ve asked about the rearward firing R-73 in another topic…

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=96634 )

Thank you.:)

This thread is driving me crazy! each time i see a new post i quickly log on to see if the photo of the PAK-FA has been released!

Same here , i gotta be out of my mind, think i registered on this forum just for it !

Lucid moment gone , now please Ivan show us the damn thing …PLEASE! :confused:

And on it you can see RAFALE written above !!! looks like a duck , quacks like a duck …

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KHdV6UTlHJ5KLm9ZKt6gkg

PS: and since when the russians talk in knots???