2nd Pak FA prototype maiden flight pics

[Skull and Bones]

Is it just because the airintakes are small??? and engines are much close to each other. Have I guessed it right???

Didn't get your question?
Can you elaborate

 

[Nirvana]

by the technical point of view
Chinese stealth is more more advance design than the pakfa

Kindly Elaborate

 

[Nirvana]

by the technical point of view
Chinese stealth is more more advance design than the pakfa

Kindly Elaborate

 

[Skull and Bones]

Ok guys, now please ignore the troll and stick to the topic.

 

[Whiplash]

They haven't fixed any of the problems so many members noticed! the air intakes are still non stealthy. No internal weapons bay. And the engines are extremely non stealthy!

 

[Whiplash]

Kindly Elaborate what technical qualification you have to pass on comments on PakFA and J20

When someone starts his sentence with 'by the technical point of view'.. Just understand he's a completely unqualified fanboy

 

[Skull and Bones]

They haven't fixed any of the problems so many members noticed! the air intakes are still non stealthy. No internal weapons bay. And the engines are extremely non stealthy!

Development is a cumulative process, that problem will be addressed soon. Wait for the next prototype

 

[SpArK]

Russia successfully tests second Sukhoi PAK FA​

Russia has performed the first flight of its second Prospective Airborne Complex - Frontline Aviation (PAK FA), known as a fifth-generation fighter jet, officials from the national defense complex told Interfax-AVN.

"The flight continued for 57 minutes. The aircraft was piloted by Sergei Bogdan, an honored test pilot of Russia. All goals set for the first flight have been successfully achieved," officials said.

All systems of the aircraft were operating in a routine mode. "The inflight stability and control characteristics of the plane were positive. All systems and the engine of the aircraft were operating error-free," the source said.

Mikhail Pogosyan, the director of the United Aircraft Corporation, the head of Sukhoi and MiG, told reporters earlier that it was planned to conduct test flights for three fifth-generation fighter jets during 2011.

According to Pogosyan, the fifth-generation program is being developed according to the plan. The first aircraft has performed 40 flights.

The first flight of Russia's Sukhoi PAK FA fifth-generation aircraft took place on January 29, 2010. According to experts' estimates, the aircraft is unique for it combines the functions of strike aircraft and a fighter jet.

The fifth-generation aircraft is equipped with a completely new complex of avionics which integrates the function of the electronic pilot and the prospective radar station into the phased array antenna. The new system simplifies the work of the pilot and gives him an opportunity to concentrate on his mission.


The new fighter jet is capable of carrying both air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. As for the first category, it goes about long and small range missiles, as well as medium-range missiles by Vympel Design Bureau. As for the second category (air-to-surface), the jet can carry anti-vessel missiles, common purpose missiles and guided bombs (250 kg caliber). In addition, the plane can carry guided different purpose missiles and bomb units of up to 1,500 kg in caliber on external suspensions.

All guided aviation means of destruction for Sukhoi PAK FA fighters are designed by Tactical Missiles Corporation.

The PAK FA, when fully developed, is intended to be the successor to the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the Russian inventory and serve as the basis of the Sukhoi/HAL FGFA project being developed with India.

Sukhoi director Mikhail Pogosyan has projected a market for 1,000 aircraft over the next four decades, which will be produced in a joint venture with India, two hundred each for Russia and India and six hundred for other countries. He also said that the Indian contribution would be in the form of joint work under the current agreement rather than as a joint venture. The Indian Air Force will "acquire 50 single-seater fighters of the Russian version" before the two seat FGFA is developed.

The Russian Defense Ministry will purchase the first 10 aircraft after 2012 and then 60 after 2016. The first batch of fighters will be delivered without the "Fifth generation" engines. Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, has projected that Vietnam will be the second export customer for the fighter. The PAK-FA is expected to have a service life of about 30-35 years.

Vesti.ru

Russia successfully tests second Sukhoi PAK FA - English pravda.ru

 

[Skull and Bones]

@ Benny
Anything said about the stealth features of its air intakes?

 

[Whiplash]

Development is a cumulative process, that problem will be addressed soon. Wait for the next prototype

Well I heard many russian reports saying they were working on 5th gen stealthy engines. But haven't seen one about bettering the air intakes/IW bay. This is going too slow for a 2017 IOC

 

[SpArK]

@ Benny
Anything said about the stealth features of its air intakes?

Nothing.. ....i have been searching even Russian forums for any infos, nothing was found regarding the intake issue .

 

[SpArK]

Ministry will purchase the first 10 aircraft after 2012

So a scaled down one is coming up soon as operational.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Nothing.. ....i have been searching even Russian forums for any infos, nothing was found regarding the intake issue .

At first i thought it will incorporate a serpentine intake, but the pictures look otherwise

 

[GORKHALI]

check out the difference in both prototypes canopy of ABOVE (TD 2 ) And BELOW (TD 1)
Also they fixed IRST too in TD 2 unlike in TD 1

courtesy paralay.ru

 

[Skull and Bones]

Here's the air intake of the first prototype