Yes these are probably the VG inlet system

1) Movable lerx
2) Variable intake
3) The Su-27 style underside (a big detractor in my opinion)
4) cylindrical engine nacelles and unsheathed engines
5) IRST ball on front ( maybe in future generations that will go)

can someone please explain to me the implications for stealth of the following features:

1)flaps
2)slats
3)rudders
4)airelons?

😀 😀

IRST ball on front

Oh God is the ball! omg, the pakfa is doomed..

He’s doing too much fuss w/o enough information

But i still would like to know what is this

Probably nothing, well, waiting for better pictures

Except that thats not what happens

Now that everybody is playing the game of ‘guess the s duct ofthe pakfa’… you should check closer the t50’s intakes, there is some kind of hump up and down, check that mysterious engine extension over the airframe onthe upper side of the fuselage..mysterious..why??? i don’t know 🙂

This is my guess, of course if the plane does have s duct

You are doing a lot of fuss about it, check the intake closer, you are most likey wrong.

And hey! it fits with the landing gears room 🙂

50%.

Of the whole program?, i don’t think so

I think is 50% of the indian modification – read canopy and wiring-

ah yes the best argument in the book “well the Russians just are better at it”

Is just because the 22 is old, time has passed, and things have improved.

I’m not talking about the pakfa, i don’t even know if it does have s-duct

but did not have the funds to end it

Everything you said are just conjectures.

You don’t understand, there are a lot of contractors that have worked in a X program, and suddenly some guys that had nothing to do with the program (and never had) will get all the contracts?

Wont happen..never

Russia is doing pure defense research and spending on hardware that only russians will use, missiles, submarines, etc..is a bit more complex than ‘they don’t have enough money’, because money is relative, and the fruits of research and patents from all these programs are meant to produce money for future applications.

Specially the pakfa, that is meant to be exportable

India will get a similar program like the su-30mki

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Now, the indian version will be most likely a modified t50, what will be the share for the modification?

This is where i’m confused, because is 50/50, but is most likely the 50/50 of the modification, not of the whole program

Pak FA is a project between Indians and Russian

No single indian scientific involved
No single indian coin involved
No single document signed

How so?

Ahh because you read it in a web page?

I asked if you are Russian because

i’m not russian, but i’m not stupid, i don’t know about Mr.ZIL though

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su30MKI = pakfa MKI, that is all

And by the way. The figure of 0.5 sq.m. RCS

This is the real RCS, i just that the indian PR department was dumb enough to show the estimated of the average RCS and not the local RCS in a determined angle