Huh. So that’s how China’s new J-30 was born. :p

All joking aside, it’s nice to see the two of them side-by-side. Their features complement each other very well.

I wonder how the two would operate together during a mission? Did they ever get around to updating the F-22s systems so it could link up with the F-35 (or therabouts)?

Your dedication is extraordinarily admirable!!

Is anyone else getting a Viggen vibe here?

Very nice, although I have nitpicks:

1) You state the Su-35BM does not have thrust vectoring; I was under the impression that it does.

2) The Siberian Air Defense gap is notable (not to mention allowing easy access to russian airspace through the pole, but is there anything of strategic value to the Russian Military located in northern Siberian anyway?

The PAK FA/F-22 Analysis gets the gold, though; very well done, and more importantly, unbiased.

Firefox.

Hej guys! Putin says will be in service by 2013! I’m sh*ting you not!

Only to have it be pushed back another year, and another year, and then another… 😀

Thank you Quad. First clear shot of the weapons bay we have:

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I think we just broke QuadroFX’s website. 🙂

Actually, if you look across to the other side, you can see the Landing gear doesn’t retract inside of them, on the high res pictures. I have a feeling those are the close range missile, missile bays/housings. 😉

I don’t know, they look awfully small for that, and even if they did they’d only hold one missile and that’s quite an RCS disruption for just a single lousy missile. On second glance they do look fused to the wing so I’m going with the AESA radar on this one.

One thing’s for sure; the way it’s engine nacelles are deliberately placed far apart ergo it’s “squished” appearance, that thing must have one big weapons bay. You could easily fit two people in there; a handy way to bring a few mechanics on long flights. :p

You know, given how small those vertical tails are, I could easily see them removing them all together for the next upgrade and having the thrust vectoring take full control of yaw.