I actually know an ex-Northrop designer who worked on the B-2 who has said this is rubbish. Then again, he would, wouldn’t he…
Oh no those black ‘copters are overhead! NOOOOOOOO!
Thanks!
There were more sections uploaded before the FTP site died (serious technical sections on the avionics). If you want them message me and I’ll give you a link to my ftp site.
Hi Andrei.
I don’t recall the exact source for “SPO-32” (possibly Piotr Butowski?) but it is widely given online by English websites. The SPO-15 was also known as L006, which suggests that Lxxx series designations are separate from the SPO-x ones.
However, http://legion.wplus.net/guide/air/i/su30ki.shtml says RWR “”pastel” and SPO-32″ which implies they are different units, and this seems to be the only Russian website source for this designation.
It got the L150 (SPO-32) “Pastel” RWR, which is much improved.
Other than that, nothing much.
Why the confusion?
BAe tested the overwing pylons from 1975 onwards, but the RAF saw no need to buy them. They were offered to Jaguar International customers, but weren’t initially popular. India got the pylons fitted to its Jaguars, possibly after delivery, but the didn’t invent the design- it was the BAe designed pylon. In 1991, BAe fitted overwing pylons to the British Jags before use in the Gulf War, and probably consulted with the Indian companies and air force who were the only ones to have operational experience with the overwing pylons at that point.
Yes, overwing pylons were shown on a mockup at Farnborough 1974.
They were offered as an option on the Jaguar S International.
It is possible that Indian companies might have been consulted pre-Gulf War, if time was tight. This doesn’t mean that the Indians “invented” overwing pylons, but they were the only people with experience in using and integrating missiles with these pylons.
I’m looking through the manual section for the Gardeniya-1FUE ECM pod for the Su-27SK.
It is implemented as two separate pods, right hand being the receiver section and the left hand being the transmitter. They weigh 75kg each.
The ECM pod covers +-60 deg front and rear in azimuth and +-30 deg in elevation.
It can jam 2 different radars at once, which can be different frequencies etc.
The control panel is a common block with the L006LM RWR. There’s a front hemisphere/rear hemisphere switch and a 9 position mode switch;
position 1- complex interferences of radar and rocket seeker,
position 2, 3, 4 and 5 – different goal-directed complexes ensuring optimum interferences to the previously selected complexes of the interception of enemy
position 6 – “Blinking” interference (in flight of aircraft in the pair)
position 7 – interference by Doppler noise.
position 8 – high-frequency noise,
position 9 – interference of the type “antipode” (terrain bounce, to be used at the flight altitudes 50-600m)
It goes on to discuss in detail methods used like range gate pull-off, velocity gate pull-off and more, which I will have to spend some time on to translate.
Ken:
Unfortunately we only have 2 chapters from the 6th volume of the technical manual. I am sure there is a drawing of the GSh-301, but not in the sections currently available.
Some cool avionics related diagrams from the Su-27 manual…
N001 radar systems
SPO-15 RWR systems
Narciss-M HUD/HDD display system
SRZ-1P (Izdeliye 6231) IFF interrogation system
SRO-1P (Izdeliye 6202) IFF transponder system
The Su-27SK manuals are available at http://ftp.virtualflight.ru/documentation and are all in Russian (unfortunately for us non-Russian speakers!)
If you can’t get them from there I can upload them somewhere else or even send you a CD with them on if they are too big for you to download easily.
Andrei, do you have the Su-27SK flight manuals that were recently posted on the internet? Just wondering… there’s some really nice diagrams showing datalink operations and other previously undisclosed technical information.
T10V-8 first flew on 20th December 2003
Hell yeah, just as soon as I win the lottery!
If Ken lends me his Russian copy I’ll scan it in and make a machine translation of it, then we can all take 50 pages each and correct any glaring mistakes. Make a nice PDF then sell it online for £10 a go, straight to the Mr Fomin. Job done 😉
Better yet, an English version of the new edition Su-27 Flanker Story with the Su-33 book added in.
The MiG-31 is very different to the Su-27 in its core mission capabilities. The MiG-31 can fly at Mach 2.35 for extended periods of time while carrying 4 R-33 AAMs under its belly. The Su-27 is much more restricted in speed with a full load of AAMs.
Why does this matter? Well, you have to catch those damn B-1s BEFORE they fire their ALCMs…. so you really want to get out there as fast as possible….