True.
I guess the only way to know for sure is to actually have the radome off and see what’s there.;)
It’s possible that while 918 was the prototype for this yemeni export version with all the bells and whistles( Zhuk-ME) perhaps the actual deliveries reverted to a modified N-019ME on cost grounds. Makes some sense besides weapon wise both radars can handle pretty much same weapons, right ?
Regarding AESA for MiG-29 …testing of the full-scale 1000TRMs version of ZhuK-A was suposed to start this summer.;)
On another note , so should it be understood that from what can be seen so far Su-30SM won’t have the OEIS system installed?
Something interesting . The poster of the pic below ( KB-1@ paralay) says the Yemen MiG-29’s believed to be SMT are actually SMs (they have N-019ME radar with A-G modes)

I suspect it’s the baseline BARS (N-011M?), but tailored for RuAF.
That’s just a misunderstanding because of the angle/light . It’s T-50-1 in that picture. Tailbooms are the same on all T-50s ( except the mod from last year on 51 for a spin chute , of course)
MP.net, it has invaded! 😀 (Atleast mack8 will get the joke :P)
Oh noes, not the orcs…:eek:
Bai Wei again via J10 🙂
Oh , and if you wanna see some Su-35S nose details…:)

Su-30SM 01 ( blue or black) , thanks to Djoker@paralay 🙂


Bai Wei via J10@CDF 🙂
Now explain America’s obsession with Russia, Iran, Cuba… 😉
It’s simple …for instance Cuba, have you seen the ginormous invasion forces always at the shores threatening to jump in their numerous landing vessel to invade the decent, peace loving honest and kind and innocent freedom loving american people and the huge numbers of battlegroups of the cuban navy , like, carriers and battleships dude! Besides everyone knows that evil Cuba is behind all the terrorists in the world man! They are a threat man!
***megalomaniac hypocrites. 😡
Anyway we digress…really hope to see more of this aircraft. 🙂 Btw something that gets me thinking about both J-20 and J-31. Shouldn’t they have IRST to help better opose the american 5th gens? Nothing of the like is obvious on both , but perhaps not yet since they are only prototypes as of now. What do you think , will the J-20 and J-31 have IRST?
Turkish Airlines – Official partner to Manchester United, Al-Qaeda & Taliban
How about shooting down Al-Qaeda in the air itself? :diablo:
I see no reason not to believe everything said in that article. Sending non-lethal assistance my *** 😡
That’s iraqi.:)
Thanks for the CGI Gentle breeze.:)
It’s one thing to “copy” some aspects related to shape which can be dirived from the photos available on the net… It’s an entirely different matter to copy the avionics, software, etc which would require deep penetration cyber attacks (or a good spy) and industrial capability to accomplish.
Well given the hype around the alleged chinese cyber attacks against LM and their subcontractors a few years back and how some are lameting at the evil chinese who copied (badly, of course) the honest and decent american superior tech lol, what makes you think they haven’t got all the info they want on radars, software, RAM , you name it. Perhaps they have it all at their finger tips.:diablo:
PS : Completely unrelated. I get a virus warning each time i navigate on this forum . It has to do with a jpg file on Mitsubishi ATD-X. Is there a hotlinked or hosted image of it ?!