Russian Speakers?

[Silverbolt 104]

Hi everybody!

 

Could some of our Tovarichs decrypt this? i mean....does it bring any new info about the Pak Fa status or its final desing?

thanks :-)

 

 

 

[MigBuster 2,884]

A job for GrrrrrViper probably

 

OMG the russians have got hold of an F-22 photo - how

[Gr.Viper 131]

K... Only few months are left till the new fighter's appearance on public so Popular Mechanics decided to sum up everything "known" about it aleardy and speculate about its possible looks.

First page covers how the plane was designed, and the rivalry between MiG and Su ending with Sukhoi's victory, increase of minimal plane weight to 35 tons, and dropping the requirement of V/STOL.

Then the India got involved and said that they like MiG and won't fund Sukhoi's design. This was followed by yet another feature cut, dropping max speed requirement by M0.15.

The planned enigne is the further development of the Su-27 engine. Intermediate variant is currently installed in Su-35, has single plane thrust vectoring, burner thrust of 14000-14500 kgs. Final stage of engine development, which will be put of PAK-FA will have 15300-15500kgs of thrust, flat exhaust and reversible thrust.

Appearance was leaked first by Indian media, then by Sukhoi's website, but the pic was quickly pulled down. Estimaded dimensions are 19m lenght, 14m span, 4.5m parked height and weight of 32 tons. Wing sweep 53°.

 

Ahem... then they go on to estimate that the plane's capalities are gonna be 10-15% better than those of F-22, because "F-22 is 18 years old already".

 

Radar is gonna be some phased array monster with fifteen hundred modules, with total power of 18kW. Range of AWACS-sized target detection is supposed to be 400km. The thingie should be able to track 60 contacts and simultaneously attack 16. Possibly there will be a rear-facing radar, some aerials on wings and a 360° optical tracking suite.

 

Supposedly T-50 has 2 bays for large missiles up to 700kg, and 2 bays for short range missiles. Total load might be up to 12 missiles.

The new missile for the plane is a further development of R-33 (think Phoenix) and is believed to be able to hit high-RCS target at 400km

Then they have R-77 developments for 250km range and 110-140km, with home-on-jam capability. For short range they plan on something hyper-maneuvarable with IR image recognition capable of hitting incoming missiles.

2 ton ordnance weight for stealth flight, 6 tons non-stealth.

GSh-30 cannon for short range.

 

Bearing in mind Raptor order drop, the author goes on to estimate that we'll receive about 240 planes (50% of officially planned order).

And calls F-35 no match for T-50.

That's the gist of it.

 

No, I don't have FM or manual for it

 

My predicition: the generation after this will have a ****load of AI-launched counter-missiles. the generation after this will be either nuke-only or go for AI-conrolled gun combat. Then anime will be consideded documentary.

[Silverbolt 104]

Thanks Viper

[JediMaster 451]

Well it's easy to claim things about a plane that hasn't even flown yet. Proving it is one thing, putting it into mass production is another.

Do they say what this thing is supposed to cost?