What will PAK FA look like?

[lantinian]

OK, The countdown has started. Suchoi has time till early 2011. Lets run this poll and see if the majority will guess the right answer.
I think there is little for everyone, so don't complain! Just leave a short comment if you will! ;D

P.S. Please make yourselves known so we can have a good laugh at your expense. Or mine :-[

 

[Rosdivan]

I vote for vaporware.

 

[robunos]

i think they'll take the cheap option, and re-wing the Berkut fuselage, with YF-22 shape wings, and spend the funds on avionics and weapons.

cheers,
Robin.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Added extra option.... ;D

 

[Just call me Ray]

Su-35 with Go-Faster Stripes! Because everyone knows stripes makes everything go faster!


"And what's your scientific basis on that?"

"...I'm 12?"

 

[paralay]

:

Su-27 + S-37 + YF-23...

 

[Matej]

My vote for 2 engines and four tails, but I will be happy to see canard.

 

[rousseau]

F-22 with F-23 mixed, not in your list I think ;D

 

[lantinian]

F-22 with F-23 mixed, not in your list I think

The pic you have attached are the so called 4 poster configuraion = 4 tails

You do not need to mix YF-23 with anything. Its perfect that way!

P.S. Overscan, I would have kept the extra option but, first it's not a joke post and second you did not chose it.

 

[flateric]

NPO Saturn drawings looks, as Adam Savage would say, quite 'plausible'. I always wondered why it was removed from the site and exchanged for Josef rendering...

 

[rousseau]

F-22 with F-23 mixed, not in your list I think

The pic you have attached are the so called 4 poster configuraion = 4 tails
You do not need to mix YF-23 with anything. Its perfect that way!

lantinain:

This is what I called F-22 looks like, but that I posted is not

BTW, via discuss with you in Aerospace, I get a clear knowledge which I never make out before why V tail doesn't work well for 3 axis. So if there is no OVT, there is not perfect on YF-23.

 

[paralay]

8)

 

[rousseau]

Hahahahaha.......
what a big dorsal fin!!
Paralay, the Su-50 you drawn lost all of advantages of all-moving vertical fin and CARET inlet and all-moving nozzle, Now F-22 will be unbeatable. ;D

 

[flateric]

Rousseau, check the term 'dorsal fin' once more and stop cross-posting please.
Trying to try draw any possible PAK-FA configuration to say after unveiling that one has predicted its configuration makes me smile.
I can say now that 'one of the KNAAPO workers have seen the drawings and said that it will look like
X-Wing'. So what, we will rush to draw it?
Real insiders, few of which presents at russian forums, are very cautious (and that's right) and didn't give any direct clue to PAK-FA configuration.

 

[lantinian]

Hey Guys,
I didn't realy wanted to create another discution tread. Plenty of them already.

This is just a poll where everyone can state his opinion, give a short supporting comment and leave the other people's opinions at peace.
Please, it's just a POLL. I don't even thinks drawings of any kind are appropriate unless you have chosen the "OTHER" option and you feel a drawing will explain your opinion better.

Once PAK-FA has been shown, we can all go ever the poll quickly and see who had the most sensitive nose

THANK YOU!

This is what I called F-22 looks like, but that I posted is not

Yes it was from the point of view of the poll! The choices I have made in the poll only highlight the wing+control surface+engine configuration, since that one has the most effect on overal appearance. I have stated that F-22 as example because it also has 2 engines, 4 oster tail and no cannards, but that's all the similarity I was looking for.

 

[JAZZ]

A case of not wanting to do this...but I had a liitle play around and its done. Prehaps a little off the current thinking for PAK-FA and more a cross between YF-23 and MiG I.144.

 

[Matej]

A bit thin but nice one.

 

[JAZZ]

may-be a bit thin....but, I was thinking of an engine size not that much bigger than Typhoon's.