The ones on the chin of the Mi-24 are the 1st band SRO-2 Krom IFF transcievers.

The 3rd band SRO-2 transcievers are the familiar “Odd Rods”, which were replaced by the Parol triangle blade, but the 1st band little white button transcievers remain even on Parol equipped Mi-24s.

I expect this is what all the above are. The MiG-29 is literally encrusted in IFF antennas for 3 different bands facing in all directions; if you have the MiG-29 Flight Manual by Alan Wise count them on the diagram on page 103.

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Sens:

A lower bypass ratio gives higher SFC dry and lower SFC wet.
A higher bypass ratio gives lower SFC dry and higher SFC wet.

Obviously pressure ratio and other factors play a role as well, but the bypass ratio chosen for the AL-31F and RD-33 is around 0.5, which is lower than the F100, so the dry SFC would be higher for the Russian engines even with the same technology level.

The basic MiG-29 range is low because it doesn’t have enough internal fuel. The MiG-29M got 40% more fuel in the same size airframe…

The best place to ask would be http://www.bharat-rakshak.com forums.

I looked through my pictures, and the only air-ground stuff I have pictures of on the MKI is dumb bombs.

One would assume that the IAF would have some Kh-25L/Kh-29L/KAB-500L for its MiG-27MLs, but I can’t find any pictures to show this either.

I doubt that Tamara is modern enough to track the LPI emissions from a B-2. Its essentially a Cold-War era system, a passive radio-frequency detection system working by triangulation. The USSR had many similar systems.

Its definitely being called “Saeghe”, the question is whether its the same project as the “Saqueh-80” or whatever it was called that was supposed to be more like the YF-17.

Well, there are some interesting stories in Russian engine development, to be sure.

For example, everyone knows that they got the Nene and Derwent from Britain, which were reverse-engineered and put into production. Less well known engine technology transfers occurred. The two F-86s (1 A, 1 E) recovered from Korea were actually going to be reverse engineered, but this project was canned- but the reverse-engineered AN/APG-30 ranging radar formed the basis of the SRD-3 “Grad” which equipped the MiG-19. I suspect, though I haven’t seen it formally acknowleged, that the J47 of the F-86 was at least studied, though it wasn’t actually copied.

More seriously, the AL-21F was heavily based on a J79 turbojet recovered from Vietnam. It is a measure of the technology gap that an American engine almost 10 years old was worth reverse engineering. The original AL-21F wasn’t very successful, but was developed into the AL-21F-3 which as classified secret and rarely exported- perhaps to hide the ancestry of the Russian’s most advanced turbojet of the time.

SOC: the 9.13 in North Korea is in the Fomin/Gordon Russian book over a year before Gordon’s English book. Whether it was Gordon or Fomin’s work is hard to say.

MiG test model (I love this tailless layout)