Alenia Aermacchi M346 Master

[archipeppe]

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here it is my contribution about the matter.


Italian pride!!!

 

[SAustin16]

Archipeppe,


Bella Bella!


Wonderful work. Beautiful aircraft that looks like it would be really fun to fly. Thank you.

 

[archipeppe]

Archipeppe,


Bella Bella!


Wonderful work. Beautiful aircraft that looks like it would be really fun to fly. Thank you.

Many thanks!!!

 

[Stargazer]

Nice! But I much prefer the Yak-130 variant of the same basic design, with its winglets. Will you do it?

 

[archipeppe]

Nice! But I much prefer the Yak-130 variant of the same basic design, with its winglets. Will you do it?

Maybe, since it should be still in development phase I would prefer to do that in Russian Aviation markings.
Anyway even if the basic architecture is the same for both airframes indeed they are quite different aircrafts by any other point of view.

 

[archipeppe]

Here there are, after some time, the updated M-346 drawings.


- The first T-346 delivered to AMI (Italian Air Force), named Master is designed with suffix "T" (as trainer) rather the "M" (for Macchi)
- The first M-346 Lavi for the Hely Ha' Avir (Israeli Air Force) named Lavi (young lion) like the cancelled fighter of mid 80's.