Indeed its an AESA radar, DRDO has already developed S band AESA.

Not only that from Aero India, Astraa Microwave a Indian company has developed almost all (except 2 bands whic are under dev) AESA band TR modules and as per the guy, “have started delivering them to govt organisations” — for “unnamed” reason :diablo:

Check their site for the modules,

http://www.astramwp.com/products/trmodules.html

I am not sure if it is a research Lab or manufacturing foundry. i has hardly $25m in assets. u need $5B for 45nm process foundry and alteast $1b for 65 to 90nm.

from info board LCA top speed is Mach 1.6 and 500kg maximum bomb. is it offiicial. also MKI computer shows 50 million instruction per second. a decade old standard.
Brazilian compared Gripen to previous Su-35 in evaluation.

Let me put it more bluntly. MiG-35 will NEVER be an “all composite” aircraft. 15% is about as far as you can go without major design changes that cause a cascade of other changes.

Composites are not one-for-one substitutes for metallics. An “all composite” aircraft would require different frame and keel spacing, different spar and stringer depth and number, different skins and completely different equipment attachments to allieviate point loads.

This will cause internal equipment relocation (actuators, valves, engine mounts, landing gear attachments, avionics, wire harnesses, hydraulic and fuel plumbing, Etc.) Fuel volumes will change as will flight control actuator requirements as control surface inertias increase.

This cascades to changes in electric and hydraulic power demand, which drives cooling changes.

In the end, you might keep the engine, landing gear, avionics and ejection seat, but will throw everything else away because it is no longer a balanced design for the “all composite” aircraft. The bottom line is an “all composite” MiG-35 will likely not look anything like the MiG-35 you expect.

And we didn’t touch on damage tolerance, inspectability and repairability of composites.

so how Sukhoi is developing Su-35 from Su-27 with major weight reduction. u have to look at value of the deal and time line. development costs in Russia are very cheap. few prototypes will make it into it. they upgraded engine for small order of MIG-29K. now multiply that by factor of 10. In 8 years alot of things can change and Russia OAK program for advance manufacturing for all factories by 2015.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/02/13/212064/bangalore-air-show-indian-combat-aircraft-order-could-be-split-between-the-mig-35-and-western.html
Indian defence minister A K Antony said last week at Aero India in Bangalore that a decision in the much-delayed competition would be “taken very quickly”. If a request for proposals (RFP) is issued in mid-2007, the first MRCA could arrive no earlier than 2014 given the time it would take to complete the evaluation and sign a contract.

Such nonsense…:confused:

I haven’t got information about the actual MiG-35, but according to This month’s edition of “Vzlyot” magazine (http://www.take-off.ru) the MiG-29KUB has a substantial amount of its airframe made from composites “all that is not the colour yellow” according to a project chief.

I’m not sure, but I don’t see why the MiG-35 would be any different.

It is still only 15%.

It is the 680 module version currently installed. still less than a $1m

Russian fighter with active phased array radar first shown to public at Indian exhibition

BANGALORE, India. Feb 9 (Interfax-AVN) – The MiG-35 fighter jet, featuring an active phased array radar, made its first foreign public appearance at the Aero India 2007 aerospace show in Bangalore.

“The radar added new combat characteristics to the fighter, and enhanced its effectiveness dramatically,” Yury Guskov, the First Deputy Designer General and the Chief Designer of the Fazotron-NIIR Corporation, told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

The active phased array radar has the effective range increased twice. Digital scanning allows it to simultaneously operate in air-to-air and air-to-surface modes, track group and single targets, identifying their type and class. For instance, such radar can easily distinguish between the F-16 and MiG-21, MiG-29 or other fighters.

According to Guskov, there are two such radars now, based on monolith integral circuits. “The main advantage of such radars is that they have transmitters built in every emitting element, while the passive phased array that also features a capability to digitally control the beam has only one transmitter, which affects its reliability significantly. Its guaranteed service life varies from 60-120 hours, while active phased arrays with 680 transmitters remain fully operational even when 10% of them are out of order,” he said.

He added that this raised the guaranteed service life of an active phased array radar to 10,000 hours. “We officially guarantee only 600-900 hours now, because the technology still needs to be proven in operation,” he said.

He added that the active phased array radar employs a high-speed computer, capable of 50 billion simple operations, which ensures radar signal processing with high resolution, so that targets become visible even if they are located 35-50 meters one from another.

Guskov also said that the radar installed in the MiG-35 also has 680 emitting elements. Later on the number may be increased to 1,064, while the radars of Su-30 will have more than 2,000 of them. “As of now the price of one emitting assembly is $400. When we start mass-production, it will cost far less,” he said.

He noted that the active phased array radar of the MiG-35 is based fully and entirely on Russian microelectronics. “Our radar is not inferior to any foreign analogies, but costs less. As a matter of fact, only France and the U.S. could afford having active phased arrays on their planes. Now Russia joined the club,” he said and added that the array is designed so as to be easily assembled and disassembled in the manner of the Lego play sets.

According to him, the array is fully integral with the power supply system and the cooling system of the fighter. “This is of paramount importance, because active phased arrays may be incapacitated quite simply. If no cooling is provided, the element’s temperature will immediately rise to 300, 400, 500 degrees Centigrade and it will simply burn. An active phased array radar at a price of several million dollars can burn in mere seconds,” he said.

He added that the production version of the active phased array radar to be installed into the MiG-35 fighter will be ready next year.

FC-1 manager is even smarter. They are producing a similiar RD-93 called WS-13 with more thrust and hopefully smokeless in China. 😀

Yeah FC-1 manager is very smart thats why we hear about engine issue decade later in every news media. it destroys the export reputation of project. and his desparate enough to use decade old smokey engine on first flight. (IN didnot allow this for first flight of MIG-29K). they need to learn alot.

Does any of the Ukraines aviation plants work on or build the RD-33?

Considering Pakistan has purchased Ukrainian equipment before including tank engines I don’t think they would have any problems with selling jet engines.

I know the Ukraine operates the Mig-29 so I would of thought they at least have the facilities to overhaul and zerotime RD-33 engines.

Ukraine is i think capable of maintaining RD-33 series engines but i dont think it can make modern versions like MK or VK-10.
if FC-1 program managers were smart they should have organized its production in Ukraine with same Klimov in 90s like L-15 engines.

ZAPORIZHZHYA. Dec 12 (Interfax-AVN) – The Ukrainian Motor Sich Company may join one of the Russian engine-building holding companies in the future.

“I have always said that we are ready to team up with Russian engine manufacturers,” Motor Sich President Vyacheslav Boguslayev told Interfax-AVN at the scientific conference “Motor Sich – 90 Years in Aircraft Industry” in Zaporizhzhya on Tuesday.

“The Klimov Plant and the Chernyshev Enterprise are known to cooperate with the MIG aircraft corporation. The Russian aircraft industry authorities must be following some other strategy, but we are extremely interested in cooperating with the Klimov Plant, because its out flagship designer. We pinned our future hopes on teaming up with the Klimov Plant,” Boguslayev said

According to him, the step, based on 30 years of experience, would only be reasonable. “We share common design and production algorithms, i.e. everything is coordinated. Staff are what matters most. Motor Sich and the Klimov Plant are currently working at a common program,” Boguslayev said

MiG press release touting their wunderplane for which the IAF will have to no doubt, shell out development costs.

India hasnt contributed to MKI/29K r&d costs. MIG-35 is very unlikely u can add anything.