What I would like to know is how they would go about making this lawsuit take place. How are international court cases handled? Who would be the judge and jury in this case, since we’re dealing with different nations here? Off topic, but…

Personally, it sounds like to me that the Russian gov’t are just butt-hurt over losing a major export customer, but what do I know? 😮

Now that it has ASEA and a bigger payload, I can easily see this new gripen to be a lower-cost competitor to the F-35 or even the Rafale; and the last thing the Rafale needs right now is even more competition. 🙁

So what was the M88-3 upgrade for again? Was it a thrust uprating or something else?

Maybe that is why the 1.44 lost out as it had ressesed missiles instead of a bay?

I thought the 1.44 had an internal bay? :confused: :confused:

They might even go with a mix of an internal bay and recessed weaponry. I’m sure you can fit a few missile under the engine nacelles too. And I wonder if they ever intend to fit A2G munitions?

My gut feeling tells me that the Russian developers will really try to cram as much weaponry onto their jet’s as they can. You know, anything you can do to try and beat the Raptor; by compensating in this case. :diablo: :p

EDIT: The weapons schematic in that one link showing the possible arrangements doesn’t make sense to me. It wouldn’t be a good idea to stack missile one on top of the other; if one jams, the other missiles are stuck. At any rate, that one particular image is just speculation (well, they all are I guess), not to mention that it’s accompanying image shows a significantly different weapons bay arrangement which I should have posted before to avoid confusion; my bad.

I was emphasizing the size comparisons of the missiles.

The graphic looks too simplistic to show doors for internal weapons bays. But looking at the space in between the engine nacelles/pods, theres definitely enough space in there for at possible weapons bay long enough for the KS-172 as it has been rumored for a while now.

Of course we don’t know it’s exact size, but going by the size of the cockpit bubble going by Twisteds pic, it looks to be fairly large for a fighter.

Either that or the KS-172 is intended for external carriage…

EDIT: I though the 1.44 had an internal weapons bay?

It could be either. Perhaps it’s neither and is just a generic mockup?

…It looks like that radome was made of bamboo. 😮

^^ Translated in Google Translator Link

“”Today in Russia, all financial, intellectual, technical and production resources aviation industry program focused on creating heavy fighter 5 – the first generation. we can not spread them and must complete this program. Only then can consider establishing a light fighter aircraft based perspective acquired technologies “- A. Fedorov said.

According to him, until a decision on the establishment of a light fighter aircraft on the market outlook will be offered MiG-35 fighter aircraft (on the photo below right), which is already implemented some of the technology 5 – first generation, including airborne radar antenna with an active phased array.”

From what I read, they would want to develop a new lightweight fighter based off the transferred tech of the PAK FA, and possibly purchase the Mig-35 as a stopgap until that plane goes into service…?

Jeez!