that link doesn’t work, can u post it again

it works for me however here it is Hamburger:p:dev2:

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/3292/bc4e52182354.jpg

Expect dr.Kopp analysis on Pak Fa in the future days.Seems he received lot of questions on T-50.One thing for sure,he’ll say the Fatboy-35 aint a match for the T-50:dev2::)

02/02/2010 T-50 PAK-FA: APA has received a large number of email queries asking the question: “when will an analysis of the PAK-FA be published?” A Technical Report analysing the PAK-FA is currently in development. The importance of this program is such that APA will not be releasing this TR until the analysis is properly completed, and a robust and thorough report can be produced. Visitors interested in the strategic and operational implications of the PAK-FA might consider reading the following 2009 NOTAMs: When America’s Stealth Monopoly Ends, What’s Next? and Air Combat: Russia’s PAK-FA versus the F-22 and F-35; and the 2009 Technical Report update covering the Tikhomirov NIIP PAK-FA AESA radar. All indications at this time are that the conclusions of the two 2009 NOTAMs will firmly hold, although PAK-FA is more capable in many respects than previously expected.

Pak-FA is a very impressive airplane. 😀

It has all the design attributes one would expect of Generation 5. The size and fuel fraction places it squarely in the OCA role.

I expect it to be expensive when compared to Gen 4, so the question becomes “How many can Russia afford to buy for the VVS?”

quoted for honesty 🙂

Is this your personal opinion or your Usaf colleagues share the same thoughts 🙂 ?

So u cant store it for long time like hypergolic fuels on actual missiles i suppose?Could they replace cryogenic with hypergolic and use the modern tech used on Angara as base for the new design?

Any hint?Mercurius sir could u give your valuable opinion on the argument?

Please note the Mig-31 cannot supercruise (without afterburner) in dry thrust. In operations, a full loaded Mig-31 weight more than a Tu-134 airliner!

Do you know that the D-30F6 engines are optimized for afterburning and it’s based on the turbofan used by the Tu-154M? I think turbojet is more a suitable term for the D-30F6, difference is the engine is more optimal in low attitude flight, and it can afterburn longer without running into reliability problems.

For the Mig-31, I doubt it can afterburn for 25 minutes without running out of fuel. From a couple of magazines that I’ve read, the Mig-31 at best can afterburn for 15 minutes. That’s why a refueling probe was added later to the Mig-31 to increase it’s combat radius. Note the official combat radius of Mig-31 is actually much smaller than the Su-27 given both planes are of the same size.

For the su-47, it is a mystery why they use the “primitive” D-30F6 and not switch to the AL-31F.

if im not wrong it can do 720km at M 2.3 so just calculate the minutes on Vmax.
For sure it will do more in lower V however its subsonic radius is a respected one over 1200 km quite similiar to the FLANKER which i doubt would do 720 km at M 2.3.
The reason for using the D-30 is that when Mig became operational it was the only reliable turbofan avalaible and also dimensions.
I think the Al.31 came around 86 and the Flankers first flew with Al-21

I have updated my illustration of Arihant. I would really like to hear from someone who may have witnessed Arihant launch ceremony.

Not an expert but looks like Borei’s little brother 😎

I believe SH is the clear winner of the two. It has loads of internal fuel capacity for deep strike missions. t.

i believe you’re wrong and all the loads you talk about give u a radius mig29 alike…and with tangs hanged all rcs discussion isnt valid.

If they look for payload and radius we have a winner and that is RAFALE

Hell at this point Bulava must be giving really headache to Russian MOD….Maybe the Severstal being towed must mean smth maybe a “testbed” modification for Sinevas?The original SS-N-20 was 16 m long and had a diameter of 2.4m….Sineva is long 15m and has a diameter of 1.9 m so probably they could refit it….any thoughts/possibility?
2 Typhoons could be armed with 40 missiles and would be added to the six modernised 667brdm D-IV