@Oldibas

Inside a transport plane?

Thanks.

Let the TR module counting start… 🙂

From http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/

12.12.2012

The first flight of the PAK FA was held on January 29, 2010 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. At present, work is underway on the full range of ground and flight tests. Three PAK FA prototypes take part in the test program. At the present time more than 200 flights have been made on the flight test program.

http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=5022

One month later

17.01.2013

The first flight of the T-50 fighter took place on January 29, 2010. At present, the work is going on a whole range of ground and flight tests of three aircraft. Soon the T-50-4 fighter will join the tests. To date more than 200 flights were carried out under the flight test program.

http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/news/company/?id=5052

There seems to be a month of very little activity or maybee something else was at hand…

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You and me both. 🙂 But that is what one can expect from one of the main channels really, they are making this report for average joe, not us nutcases. There are also some more spesific news, however, take them with huge huge grain of salt, as they are basically impossible to prove right at this point:

This spring fully loaded with fuel and dummy weapons 4th board took off from the 310 meters, has reached cruising speed of 2135 km/h and maximum speed of 2610km/h, there were also potential for more, and also climbed to 24,300 meters – wasn’t allowed higher.

This was apparently “measured” by radio scanners, but the source is second hand.

Concerning the maximum altitude:

(INS) SINS-SP2

“The SINS-SP2 system is able to operate at both ultra-high and ultra-low temperatures –from minus 60 degrees to plus 60 degrees, at an altitude of 25 kilometres,” said Alexey Kuznetsov, general director of MIEA. “Its technical characteristics conform to the best world standards.”

http://rostec.ru/news/2197

Of course this is all circumstantial info 🙂

@Berkut

I wish that reporter would simply ask questions and recorde Bogdans, Strelets and Pogos answers. I just can’t understand why do reporters feel the need to add their own nonsense, which in the end only adds to greater confusion about the capabilities of the aircraft.

That is why new pilot helmets have laser attenuation built into them.

Yes to protect against laser pointers, but what about 10 kW laser?

…a nice sneaky peaky @ the duct:

http://russianplanes.net/id102227

Remember RSM55 🙂 I guess he was right when talking about intake ducts going sideways:

Then you’d have to build high, because you need space to lead the intake ducts up and around.

Or sideways.

Speaking of intakes, I don’t understand why were they made for max. speed of Mach 3 when it was said that T-50 max. speed will be around Mach 2?

http://www.findpatent.ru/patent/246/2460892.html

…. изобретения являются самолеты с ТРДД с максимальным числом Маха не более 3-х.

…. invention are turbojet aircraft with a maximum of up to Mach 3

VHF/UHF doesn’t have the accuracy to guide a SAM to stop a VLO attacker. It can be ignored because it isn’t a direct threat to accomplishment of the mission.

What does “accuracy” mean exactly? Is it speed, height, heading or something else? Is the level of accuracy same for VLO and 4.gen aircrafts?

Thanks

AVIC showroom as seen in recent CCTV documentary.

Is that a mock-up of J-20 cockpit?