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God bless the engine unification! How long i was waiting for that! How damn long!
Me too but this limits radar I believe, same thing with F-35 IIRC.I'm seeing side intakes now? I wanted chin intake
I assume this is NTOW, even F-16 has a higher MTOW and this aircraft is bigger and with a much more powerful engine. Less than 10 t empty is difficult for a 5G fighter, at least if it has some weapon bays. And it seems to have quite a long fuselage so that may be the case.
I'm sure they will come up with something offensive in no time.
With the thrust of the izd. 117S and a empty weight of 10 t it would still be quite ok (same TWR as F-35). But this is a new plane, maybe around 2030 when it can be sold it is ok to export the izd. 30 or at least some monkey version of it. The lack of powerful engines is forcing many nations to create 5G fighters that are twin engine, so Russia has definitely a serious ace up their sleeve with this plane if they provide their more advanced engines, be it izd. 117 (15 tf) or izd. 30.
LCF from Langley photo archives (check for their recent updates!)
The good thing with the way Russians are acting is that AL-41F-1 is size compatible with AL-41F-1S, AL-31F and izd. 30. And the thre stream version of the izd. 30 will also be size compatible. So they can test now with maybe the 117 or 117S, which are fully mature, and switch to the izd. 30 for later test phases when the engine has already be cleared for serial production. Looks pretty low risk to me.
I don't think so. Actually the plane has a long fuselage and that can be a strong hint to ventral bays placed in front of the engine. Side bays are also ok for A2G ordnance, with a special release mechanism, like in the X-32Hood said:
Let's be honest, the biggest threat to market potential is Western pressure. As discussed above, no one is selling a 5G single engine plane which is economical and with no massive strings attached to it. And it is difficult to change that, esentially because there is no readily available engine for it. The F119 is very specific, increasingly outdated and restricted to the F-22, the F135 is very big and will not be sold for anyone to develop a competitor to the F-35. So other nations developing 5G rely on advanced versions of the F414 or RD33 and have to use a twin engine layout. US may be forced to offer the F-35 to an increasing number of nations, maybe. In any case, the gap is there for Sukhoi to exploit it, but of course their design needs to live up to the expectations in terms of performance, range and payload to be a succesful multirole fighter that can constitute the backbone of an airforce and not only a cheap "lo" complement for heavy ones. That is not exactly easy for a "light" fighter, so we still need more information to know to what extent they can succeed. The layout of the weapon bays is going to be critical for that.
I can see a Russian version adopting Izdeliye 30 engines eventually, after the Su-57.
Exactly
Very well put sir... my understanding of that in the attached picture.
If you analize that in depth, the requirement demanding side intakes in the F-35 is the STOVL, not the bays. And it was that that forced the bays to the sides of an increasingly big engine, affecting the cross sectional area and wave drag of the plane. A fighter without STOVL requirements and designed to be a high performance supersonic platform needs to be different.
That just seems ridiculous, PAK-FA was less under the covers than this (if it flew).
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