Colour chart at bottom of this page http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cv-design.htm

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You are confusing the layouts of the Yak-38 and Yak-141…..

The Yak-38 had two swivelling nozzles on the lift/cruise engine – the Yak-141 has a single straight-through nozzle with translating cowl – exactly the same as the F-35!!

The only basic difference is that the Yak-141 has two lift engines behind the cockpit whereas the F-35 has a lift fan in the same position.

No I wasn’t:), your right about the 3-bearing swivel nozzle being used on both the Yak-141 and X/F-35 of course, but its a big difference between lift jets and shaft driven lift fans, IMO.

Another thing the JSF will have in common with the Yaks is that a auto-eject system has been introduced to counter the lift-fan failure condition for the F-35B STOVL aircraft.
See here http://www.martin-baker.co.uk/eject_mk16E.htm

Good thread Blackcat:)

The McDonnell Douglas / British Aerospace / Northrop Grumman teams JSF proposal was closer to the Yak-38 and Yak-141 than the F-35 design.
It had a seperate lift engine like the Yaks and a straight through jet pipe that closed off for STOVL ops with the exhaust diverted to 2 side nozzles under the butterfly tail planes.
Take a look here http://www.jsf.mil/gallery/gal_photo_cddr_mda-ngc-bae.htm

How much countries spend on defence relative to other countries, 2003 figures.http://www.mod.uk/aboutus/keyfacts/budget.htm#1

Perhaps Brazil should skip a couple of generations and go straight to UCAVs:) http://www.darpa.mil/j-ucas/

Good post Kovy, in the pics I notice that the M’s nose gear is further forward than the B/C’s, is it backwards retracting?