Jackehammond, check pms.

Looks like a poor machine translation from Russian to English to me.

the new English-language edition of Ildar Bedretdinov’s Su-27 book (4kg!) to pack in my suitcase.

Ken, what do you think of it?

I think the point Scott is making is that Skat is currently a mockup, not a working aircraft, hence its somewhat premature to say

“Well, well, looks like the Russians enter the stealth scene at the level of X-45 & B2- good for them!!”

As Otaku did a few posts ago.

Theres a big difference between a static model and a working stealth aircraft. Otherwise Iran could build a Revell plastic B-2 model and claim to have mastered stealth aircraft production.

The core of Tactical Missile Corp is Zvezda-Strela. However:

On May 9, 2004 the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree #591 on development Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC, under which the Corporation included the following 8 defense enterprises:
•Federal State Unitary Enterprise “The Bereznyak State engineering design bureau Raduga” (Dubna, Moscow region);
•Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Production association Azov optomechanical plant” (Azov, Rostov region);
•Federal State Unitary Enterprise “The State scientific and production enterprise Region” (Moscow);
•Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Design engineering bureau” (Moscow);
•Federal State Unitary Enterprise “The Toropov State design bureau Vimpel” (Moscow);
•Smolensk aircraft plant JSC;
•Salyut JSC (Samara);
•Gorizont JSC (Moscow).

Having said that, Kh-38M is a Zvezda product. It looks a bit like a scaled down Kh-35.

More importantly, I drew the original sketch as a purely hypothetical MFI class fighter and Matej drew a better sketch from that drawing. So unless I am *very* lucky its entirely nothing to do with PAK-FA.

This is very shortsighted thinking. First – IR R-27 is likely to be used in a tailchase engagement. Missile ranges are much shorter in tailchase as they must overtake the target.

Also, the engagement might be lower altitude, which reduces missile range further.

R-27T range in such conditions might only be 10km or so, well within lockon range. R-27ET range would be substantially longer.

R-27R does lock on after launch, by design. However, R-27ER typical max range is 65km, not 120km.