Agreed. It's why I am a 30 year old boomer and love the cold war designs. That said at least the ruskies give the boring stealth a bit of flair. Everybody else except China and Russia are making f22 facsimiles. I guess it is nice to see other design ideologies besides the western style still in existence.
The key here is to watch the aircraft's presentation in Russian and see what they are actually saying... it is just a pity that the captions are not as accurate as we would like to... but regardless, Slyusar pointed clearly at this plane and said it would be the one expected to fly in 2023.
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Izd. 30 is not a version of AL-41F-1, and it has not been mentioned for this plane explicitly, I understood Slyusar as saying it was a possibility for the future and that the nozzle was in fact "transitional"... quite interesting, given we have seen it on the display unit of the Su-57E
...further modification of SU57 will have 7-8, not the current one.
Nah it sounds like they are just giving the most optimistic subsonic high elevation ferry range of the lts. Every company will give the best possible parameters for their aircraft. I remember back in the day the block 50 f-16 slotted array radar gave a huge range of detection and in the fine print it mentioned that the range of detection was based upon large cargo or passenger planes. This was before normies like me were told about the industry standard radar cross section at that time of five meters squared.
It's being cited as a combat range.
I remember speculating about that possibility, but do you have actual quotes or data supporting that?
www.interfax.ru
That is standard Sukhoi gear/flaps indication.
Sorry, but the tail of the YF-23 is definitely not a Pelikan Tail. It has nothing to do with the angle. The main difference is how it is hinged. See the pics in the link I provided
Sorry, but the tail of the YF-23 is definitely not a Pelikan Tail. It has nothing to do with the angle. The main difference is how it is hinged. See the pics in the link I provided
I believe the term butterfly tail is used for YF-23.
I hate it when that happens 
These images are the best I could find!
As an example, the McAir/Northrop JSF offering had the v-tails at pretty shallow angles (better for pitch performance) plus it had a thrust vectoring nozzle. Controls laws were probably similar to our YF-23. Yaw inputs could have been a mix of splitting the wing trailing edge surfaces, some v-tail deflection and vectored thrust. NGC is really into flight control surface optimization and the control laws of the -23 were complex.
You can grab the "The Checkmate" logo with the knight chess piece in the H out of their website in vector format, but the shield logo, not seen that.
Yes, I saw the video and I can imagine they got a nice extra fuel volume by removing the foam, but I also don't remember seeing any concrete figure. We do know the plane's airframe is chock full with fuel in almost any thinkable space.
Yes, I saw the video and I can imagine they got a nice extra fuel volume by removing the foam, but I also don't remember seeing any concrete figure. We do know the plane's airframe is chock full with fuel in almost any thinkable space.
BTW, Combat Approved has some of these documentaries in English version:
EDIT: Found a source about ESF (Explosion Suppressant Foam), it seems to reduce just 4% of fuel capacity, so it does not seem to be a big issue, but by the amounts carried by fighter jets it is not insignificant, like 400 kg in a plane carrying 10 t fuel.
Classic V-tails (e.g. Beechcraft Bonanza) are usually angled at 90 degrees from each other and 45 degrees from the vertical.
I couldn't find anything that let you read the script below (in grey) or see the detail of the logo.....
Good spot, but how bizarre to have a logo like that and not plaster it everywhere!
Yeah those are about the best. Here's a vector version of the Checkmate text.
I have some pics I can't share where you can read the small text below, if I recall correctly it says "Turn the Chessboard". The logo has the knight chess piece at the bottom, and at the top a silhouette view of the Checkmate fighter from rear below chasing another fighter silhouette which was too small for me to identify but logically, probably an F-35?
At a wild guess - its a game changer and Australia really needs to buy some F-22s to counter it?
Ah go on - why not share just a cropped piece of the pictures? In B&W if you like. Watermarked.
