Found this pic on the serbian forum , posted on the 23rd…no idea when it was taken or where it comes from though! (tried usual suspects, RP, aviaforum, foxbat.ru etc …any ideas?)

Most likely, yes , but without the faceted IRST.:p

F-35B flight tests with pylons.
http://www.navair.navy.mil/img/uploads/20120222_O_GR159_001.jpg
http://www.navair.navy.mil/img/uploads/20120222_O_GR159_002.jpg

At least it started to look like an aircraft now lol…tho omg look at that different canting of the wing pylons and the AIM-9X pylons.:eek:

I assume the weapon bays can still be opened normally with gun pod in place, right? ( stupid question, of course it can …ummm…right ?)

Yeah wait and see i guess. It could be some maskirovka aswell given the curent situation with Syria. But then again Mr. Fomin says something about “overseas customers”.Thanks for your insight btw.

Interesting times.:)

Hopefully they’ll paint’em soon.

Speaking of Iran, how do you think it’s air defence can be considered versus that of Syria ? Better ? Worse?

I doubt if Iran and Syria can be dealt with without boot on the ground. So I doubt if anything will happen before 2015. They will try to do in Syria what they did in Libya (arming rebel), but contrary to Libya, Syria is supported by the Hezbollah and Iran so…

…and the net result of this artificially and externally proped ” Free Syria Army” is more peoples dying, more destruction, more chaos…but hey , it’s for “democracy” ( read, foreign interests) so who cares about some thousands of deads. Just like Lybia.

If the syrian people was ready for a revolution, it would have long finished by now , 11 months ago. (i lived in a country that had a revolution , so i should know what a revolution is first hand)

Right now, we are assaulted with anti Assad propaganda and disinformation.

I;ve been told past week that RSK recently finished deal in Syria modernizing their Mig-29 fleet with SMT package and that those new built Migs35 izd7.41/7.47 at Zhukovski were not designed for Syria, nor any foreign customers.

Um…say whaaaat?!:eek: Do tell us more please, who’s (what position he has) the person who told you all this , and who are those new MiG-35s for then? RuAF? RuNavy ( well where the hell are the hooks then)?

Thanks.:)

Mi-35M(3?) for Azerbaidjan, aparently:
http://russianplanes.net/ID67101

Thanks SpudmanWP.:)
Which CTOL is that one btw, is it AF-1 ?