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For me at least, there are absolutely no doubts now that the ‘Type 30’s’ shroud and (at least) the 1st stage fan are made of (MWNT modified) PMCs, and dispel any ambiguities from Schmotin’s and Fyedorov’s statements to the press regarding PMCs ‘for the cold section’ (для холодной части). ALL HAIL THE STEALTH COMPRESSOR!!! (Bye-bye S-Duck, blocker,…yadaah yadaah).

This is Izd.129, an Izd.30 compressor. No PMC, hail stealth blocker.

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Now we’re talking. 😀 Judging by the shape it’s going where we all expected it to (duh, I guess).

Yes, I was – well – wrong. As you understand, I had some solid reasons to push a point opposite to old chap Occam, but sometimes things that look obvious are the same in real.

a). Sh-121 consists of more than 3 AESA radars.
b). I just said that side looking arrays are not behind those panels.

Here are some pictures pulled from the internet, of what appears to be a model depicting the early design of the Brahmos 2

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It’s just placeholder BS, poorly made copy of X-51A made just to ‘show something’.

full-scale design of Izd. 30 will be finished till the end of 2013
http://vpk-news.ru/news/15428

TsAGI reportedly has finished J-17 wind tunnel tests for China
http://vpk-news.ru/news/15311

after brief search…

Over the winter of 1934-1935 Kaario went on to build the first Pintaliitäjäprototyypin (Pintaliitäjä=Surface Soarer, thus “Prototype Surface Soarer”), which was tested on the ice in January 1935.

So 1932 is just a ‘birth of an idea’ for Kaario, when Levkov’s one came to him in 1925.