Sukhoi T-75 LTS (CheckMate)

Grey Havoc said:
TomcatViP said:
Missile launch R60 side bay, trapeze and rail?
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Or possibly an ejection system of some type.
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I think the ones that made this small video had a non-actuated model on hands. There is no ailerons mouvements also. So I do think they weren't able to show the missile bay opening and the missile deployment sequence. That's why you have this side weird view that I was able to extract only from one of the side screens on the display that have a slightly less cropped image than the central one.
 
We can see that there is what seems to be a bleed air outlet at the end of the chin inlet section. Behind that there is a rectangular compartment that run as much as we can see down to the main landing gear location and beyond.
In its front section, there is the offset front landing gear.
I think that's where you have the central bomb bay: the bomb bay host non symmetrical payload offset along the main axis. At the front left of it seats the front landing gear well.
The bomb bay is slightly narrower than the inlet lip and run b/w the mlg wells.
 
The HQ photos clearly show Kh-59MK, K-77M RVV-SD and K-74M RVV-MD missiles.
 
TomcatViP said:
We can see that there is what seems to be a bleed air outlet at the end of the chin inlet section. Behind that there is a rectangular compartment that run as much as we can see down to the main landing gear location and beyond.
In its front section, there is the offset front landing gear.
I think that's where you have the central bomb bay: the bomb bay host non symmetrical payload offset along the main axis. At the front left of it seats the front landing gear well.
The bomb bay is slightly narrower than the inlet lip and run b/w the mlg wells.
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The nose wheel is offset probably to make space for the EOTS
 
Anduriel said:
QuadroFX said:
Super hi-res photos from Reuters agency:
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The level of small details is quite high for a simple mockup.
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well its evidently not a simple mockup, but an elaborate one. unlike for example the fcas mockup at le bourget. which was very simple. the tempest mockup was somewhere in between i guess.
 
Is that it? No Domodedovo-esque flypast between two Felons? No Flanker-style Cobra manoeuvres in front of a crowd having a sharp intake of breath? (I was there for that). All this excitement and hype for a mockup?

Or will these things happen tomorrow?

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Such a disappointment to a girl.

Chris
 
The Russian Federation already has an anchor customer for a new light fighter "Checkmate" - Deputy Prime Minister Borisov

Сlick the link below for G-translated article.

Ó ÐÔ óæå åñòü ÿêîðíûé çàêàç÷èê íà íîâûé ëåãêèé èñòðåáèòåëü "Checkmate" - âèöå-ïðåìüåð Áîðèñîâ -

Èíòåðôàêñ - Àãåíòñòâî Âîåííûõ Íîâîñòåé - èíôîðìàöèÿ î âîåííî-ïîëèòè÷åñêîé ñèòóàöèè â ñòðàíå, î äåÿòåëüíîñòè Ìèíèñòåðñòâà îáîðîíû è äðóãèõ ñèëîâûõ ìèíèñòåðñòâ, î ñèòóàöèè â Ðîññèéñêîé àðìèè è Âîåííî-ïðîìûøëåííîì êîìïëåêñå Ðîññèè.
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coanda said:
I wonder if they've looked at a single wheel arrangement of the nose gear. I think it would be new to Russian aircraft design but I have seen a nosewheel that rotates about the main leg axis during retraction so that the wheel well doesn't take up so much depth in the fuselage - it could possibly save volume overall.

Downsides are that it's a more complex arrangement and you would need a bigger diameter and potentially wider nosewheel.
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Certainly they would have saved lots of space, but heavy duty nose wheels are double to my knowledge. And when the ventral bay is in place, you need to route the air duct upwards by a similar amount regardless, so it is probably not a big deal. Downside is that the intake was moved quite to the front, it resulted in a very interesting design. How could it be classified? It seems a hybrid of different intake types we have seen...
 
The Russian Federation has a initial customer for the new "Checkmate" light fighter, which was presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said. Interfax writes about it.
“We already have it, we are doing it for him,” Borisov said at the MAKS-2021 air show. He explained that we are talking about a foreign air force.
In addition, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said that the Russian Defense Ministry would also be the customer of the new fighter.
“Yes, of course,” he said, answering the relevant question.
He stressed that this is an initiative development of Rostec, but the state corporation envisages deliveries not only to foreign, but also to the Russian military.

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У России уже есть якорный заказчик на новый легкий истребитель Checkmate

РФ имеет якорного заказчика на новый легкий истребитель Checkmate, который был представлен во вторник президенту РФ Владимиру
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Scar said:
The Russian Federation already has an anchor customer for a new light fighter "Checkmate" - Deputy Prime Minister Borisov

Сlick the link below for G-translated article.

Ó ÐÔ óæå åñòü ÿêîðíûé çàêàç÷èê íà íîâûé ëåãêèé èñòðåáèòåëü "Checkmate" - âèöå-ïðåìüåð Áîðèñîâ -

Èíòåðôàêñ - Àãåíòñòâî Âîåííûõ Íîâîñòåé - èíôîðìàöèÿ î âîåííî-ïîëèòè÷åñêîé ñèòóàöèè â ñòðàíå, î äåÿòåëüíîñòè Ìèíèñòåðñòâà îáîðîíû è äðóãèõ ñèëîâûõ ìèíèñòåðñòâ, î ñèòóàöèè â Ðîññèéñêîé àðìèè è Âîåííî-ïðîìûøëåííîì êîìïëåêñå Ðîññèè.
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Then this must be the single engine fighter being designed for the UAE after all (at least that's my guess.)
 
ADC411 said:
Scar said:
The Russian Federation already has an anchor customer for a new light fighter "Checkmate" - Deputy Prime Minister Borisov

Сlick the link below for G-translated article.

Ó ÐÔ óæå åñòü ÿêîðíûé çàêàç÷èê íà íîâûé ëåãêèé èñòðåáèòåëü "Checkmate" - âèöå-ïðåìüåð Áîðèñîâ -

Èíòåðôàêñ - Àãåíòñòâî Âîåííûõ Íîâîñòåé - èíôîðìàöèÿ î âîåííî-ïîëèòè÷åñêîé ñèòóàöèè â ñòðàíå, î äåÿòåëüíîñòè Ìèíèñòåðñòâà îáîðîíû è äðóãèõ ñèëîâûõ ìèíèñòåðñòâ, î ñèòóàöèè â Ðîññèéñêîé àðìèè è Âîåííî-ïðîìûøëåííîì êîìïëåêñå Ðîññèè.
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Then this must be the single engine fighter being designed for the UAE after all (at least that's my guess.)
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most likely
 
If the below 30 million USD is not convincing remember the Su-70 does have stealth features(debatable between present model to one that was shown in maks 2019) air to ground and air to air capabilities, is a pretty big aircraft with a price range of 1 billion rubbles or 13,420,026 USD if production hits in 2024.
 
tequilashooter said:
If the below 30 million USD is not convincing remember the Su-70 does have stealth features(debatable between present model to one that was shown in maks 2019) air to ground and air to air capabilities, is a pretty big aircraft with a price range of 1 billion rubbles or 13,420,026 USD if production hits in 2024.
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You may call me a conspirologist, but that contract looks like a pure BS to me. $13 mil for the heavy fighter jet, let alone 5gen??? Utopia. This is what classified budget items are existing for IMO.
 
I don't see the 30 million apiece to be a big deal.
If this plane is indeed aimed not to be cutting edge but to be affordable.
Pretty much entire plane is made in Russia with Russian components, Russian hardware, Russian materials and Russian wages.
Considering just how much lower Russian wages are than US ones, it's absolutely not surprising that this plane could cost 30 million, if F-35 could cost 80-90 million after a few hundred airframes.
Of course, any buyer will have to pay much more than 30 million over the course of use. And pay additional money up front to actually have an active, armed and trained unit. But that's beside the point.
 
totoro said:
Anduriel said:
QuadroFX said:
Super hi-res photos from Reuters agency:
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The level of small details is quite high for a simple mockup.
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well its evidently not a simple mockup, but an elaborate one. unlike for example the fcas mockup at le bourget. which was very simple. the tempest mockup was somewhere in between i guess.
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There's an inverse correlation between how detailed it is and how likely the program is to proceed.
 
LVisingr said:
TomcatViP said:
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Missile launch R60 side bay, trapeze and rail?
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Rather RVV-MD, which is a development of the well-known R-73.
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RVV-MD is a derivative of the R-77 program (not the R-73... which is to be replaced with RVV-SD).

I'm trying to make sense of these unconfirmed specifications. The 3xRVV-SD in particular? Would this mean the cheek bays can carry RVV-MD and there is another bay somewhere for the three RVV-SD? Or the seemingly more likely possibility that the central bay can hold 2xRVV-MD and 1xRVV-SD between them?

The RVV-MD hardpoints should be cleared to ~400kg but it sounds like they might not have volume to hold other loads (e.g. guided bombs) so any air-to-ground capability (or long range RVV-BD class missile) would go on two external hardpoints (cleared for at least 1000kg maybe 1500kg)? Or in the drones...
 
the central bay, under belly one, can hold 3 RVV SD. Seems pretty logical.
 
Avimimus said:
LVisingr said:
TomcatViP said:
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Missile launch R60 side bay, trapeze and rail?
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Rather RVV-MD, which is a development of the well-known R-73.
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RVV-MD is a derivative of the R-77 program (not the R-73... which is to be replaced with RVV-SD).

I'm trying to make sense of these unconfirmed specifications. The 3xRVV-SD in particular? Would this mean the cheek bays can carry RVV-MD and there is another bay somewhere for the three RVV-SD? Or the seemingly more likely possibility that the central bay can hold 2xRVV-MD and 1xRVV-SD between them?

The RVV-MD hardpoints should be cleared to ~400kg but it sounds like they might not have volume to hold other loads (e.g. guided bombs) so any air-to-ground capability (or long range RVV-BD class missile) would go on two external hardpoints (cleared for at least 1000kg maybe 1500kg)? Or in the drones...
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Sorry, no. K-74M RVV-MD (raketa vozdukh-vozdukh maloy dalnosti, i.e. air-air missile of short range) is a derivative of R-73, which is also short-range. And the K-77M RVV-SD (raketa vozdukh-vozdukh sredney dalnosti, i.e. air-air missile of medium range) is a derivative of medium-range R-77.

I know, it is a bit confusing, since the S and M relate to "reversed" words in Russian than in English. ;)
 
tequilashooter said:
If the below 30 million USD is not convincing remember the Su-70 does have stealth features(debatable between present model to one that was shown in maks 2019) air to ground and air to air capabilities, is a pretty big aircraft with a price range of 1 billion rubbles or 13,420,026 USD if production hits in 2024.
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Nowhere does it say it'll be below 30 million dollars. From the video in the previous page. the man said to Putin they'll aim to keep the price in the 30 million range. In other words below 40 million.

That doesn't mean however they'll hit that target in my opinion.
 
Rubick said:
Nowhere does it say it'll be below 30 million dollars. From the video in the previous page. the man said to Putin they'll aim to keep the price in the 30 million range. In other words below 40 million.

That doesn't mean however they'll hit that target in my opinion.
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apologies there, i was referencing what another user said here on specs.
 
I'm not so sure on the UAE link, there would probably be much heavier promotion featuring the UAE and a few 747 biz jets parked up outside and a crowd of Sheikhs there. Plus they would be bargaining hard for local production for at least some of the airframe. We're not seeing any hints of that at all.
 
“We already have it, we are doing it for him,” Borisov said at the MAKS-2021 air show. He explained that we are talking about a foreign air force.

"In addition, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said that the Russian Defense Ministry would also be the customer of the new fighter.
“Yes, of course,” he said, answering the relevant question.
He stressed that this is an initiative development of Rostec, but the state corporation envisages deliveries not only to foreign, but also to the Russian military."

So:
Russian Deputy PM: "We're doing it for a foreign nation"

Rostec boss: "We want our AF to buy it too"

That's not a commitment by the Russian government to acquire it, and Borisov obviously had the chance to say so, it's a hope of Rostec's that they will.
 
Hood said:
I'm not so sure on the UAE link, there would probably be much heavier promotion featuring the UAE and a few 747 biz jets parked up outside and a crowd of Sheikhs there. Plus they would be bargaining hard for local production for at least some of the airframe. We're not seeing any hints of that at all.
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Technology transfer would definitely be in the picture, and I just don't think the timescale allows it.
 
Can someone translate the exact question and answer about RuAF being an user?
There's a huge difference between "yes of course ruaf will buy it"
and
"We want RuAF to buy it, of course"
 

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