all the more reason why India should’ve chosen the Mirage 2000 in the first place.. not only would they have gotten it sooner and retire the MiG-21 earlier, but that the MiG-2000 was something they probably could’ve built.

They would since Dassault offered to transfer all the manufacturing tools to India… but India passed on the offer.

Nic

f23 fail because bay is not big enough like f22. f23 use back and front style bay that pakfa also use but in the end f22 style bay can carry more efficently.
that is why j20 is more influence by f22 style bay and can carry much more
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/07/23/J20%20weapons%20bay.jpg
this one is official diagram

Good luck fitting 4 R37 or Kh58 in a J20 if this pic is anything to go by.

Nic

In order to be sure, the MWB needs to be at lest 115cm wide. If it is less than 115cm than you need to change the position of the two rails intended for Kh-58UShKE in order to store 3 RVV-SD.

It would be easy to dismount those rails and add attachment to fit three evenly distributed rails for smaller weapons. Why would you have to use the same rails or pylons than with the R37 or Kh-58? Make them removable and fit the weapons bay with the possibility/wires to add three rails.

You could even develop a sdb like stand off ground attack weapon for when saturation attacks are required that use the same pylons.

Nic

Read the article. They’re talking about the PAK-FA. Which has always been supposed to operate alongside the MMRCA.

Nic

You could at least fit 4 MRAAM in the bay. The lower two would be shot off rail with the pylons moving to face downards (a bit like the F22 AIM9X pylons face outwards), and the two top would be extended and then ejected.

http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=252015modifbay.jpg

Nic

Here I relapse into one of my fantasies…

In an ideal world India and Brazil would be collaborating on a common aircraft carrier design. Two 60000 ton class carriers for India and 1 + 1 optional for Brazil, with work shared between shipyards from both countries.

Fantasy mode off. Carry on….

Since we are dreaming, can we add France in the mix please 😮

ok ok 4 it is then… 🙁

Nic

With such deep layout, you can imagine a triple rotary launcher on each side.

So you could carry 3 long range AAM in the aft bay and 6 MRAAM in the front bay + 2 IR missiles.

Nic