Please notice, that the engine exhausts were new designed during the test phase.

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Sources:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2004/06/mil-040617-navair01.htm
http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/default.aspx?Action=745115149&ID=5fc0d304-2a66-4205-a2e0-6b3b9303fdde
http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5671946761/m/292108502/p/1

As I posted before (can’t find now 😮 ), it seems to be a pod for navigation, detection, sighting and reconnaissance.

The following part of a press report from Mig was posted by someone before, either in the Aero India 2007 thread or in Mig-29KUB, Mig-35… threads

(…)A revolutionary feature of the MiG-35 is the integration of the most advanced optic-electronic sighting and targeting systems. The developers utilized unique technologies from the Russian space program when creating these systems. The MiG-35 is equipped with in-built multi-channel surveying-and-sighting optic-electronic system which has an extended range. The multi-channel optic-electronic station to be fitted to the aircraft in a pod allows for round-the-clock navigation, detection, sighting and reconnaissance.(…)

Source: RAC “MiG” presents its latest MiG-35 fighter at AERO INDIA 2007

Do You know, what’s new on the front of the canopy of that naval-model ??? … looks longer than before ! … and integrated IR-search ?? :confused:

Thanks again for these pictures, Deino 😀

I wonder, if that frameless canopy opens forward like the F-35 and early models of the Mig-21.

Seems to be a Blackwater Helo

23.01.2007
Blackwater Helo down in Iraq
From AP –

A small helicopter owned by the private security firm Blackwater USA crashed Tuesday in central Baghdad, killing five civilians on board, U.S. military officials said.

An official, speaking in Washington on condition of anonymity, said Blackwater representatives and the U.S. military responded to the crash.

The official said the cause of the crash was not known and that it was too early to tell if it was linked to the downing of a U.S. army helicopter that killed a dozen American troops on Saturday.

According to a second U.S. military official, initial reports suggested that all five were on the helicopter and not casualties on the ground.

A senior Iraqi defence official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said a gunman with a PKC machine-gun downed the helicopter over the Sunni Muslim neighbourhood of Fadhil, where witnesses reported clashes between insurgents, and U.S. and Iraqi forces.

The officials did not want to give their names because details of the crash had not officially been made public

Just as an addition, the canadian A310 MRTT cannot refuel a C-17, because it uses the probe and drogue system.
So only tanker aircraft with the boom and receptacle system could refuel a C-17.

First I repeat my deepest regards to L/Cpl Matthew Hull’s family and to the other British Soldiers, who got wounded.

The pilots ignored orange panels on vehicles – the NATO symbol for friendly forces.
I wonder, if the A-10C and extra training might solve such target recognition and A/G communication problems.

1347.52 POPOV35:
We’re in jail dude.

The only person, who goes to jail, will be the person, who obtained the cockpit video. (If he ever will be caught on US soil!)
I bet, he got more money from Sun than from BBC.

Is the finnish government not verifing an offer for 3 Airbus A330MRTT’s?
They will have Finnair markings.

Source: http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/070118/323/gwreo.html

The captain informes passengers, that on their flight to Helsinki, they will have to make a short detour, because 2 dirsty F(/A)-18’s have to be refuelled…
:dev2: 😀
And I don’t mean with duty-free finnish vodka!!! :p 😀

Well, in large two-page sized adds in magazines like AFM, AI and Flug-Revue, it is called:
[INDENT]A400M – Loadmaster [/INDENT]

“Master”, did I not hear that before…. 😉 😀