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    PAK-FA, T-50: News #2

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    Post  GarryB Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:14 am

    Perhaps they want to test the gun but don't want to have to deal with the issues of vibration on the optics or have to clean them just yet?

    Lots of talk of the PAK FA having two cannon... I have suspected this might be an error and that they might have just fitted a twin barrel 30mm cannon instead of a single barrel weapon to boost rate of fire?
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    Post  TR1 Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:54 am

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    Post  GarryB Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:14 am

    DIRCMS turrets or MAWS balls...


    (Directed IR Countermeasures system... ie laser turrets used to dazzle the IR and optical seekers of incoming missiles, or Missile approach warning system sensor balls... ie detect the presence of incoming missiles through the thermal plume of their rocket motors or the friction heating of their noses and the leading edges of their control surfaces... )
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    Post  medo Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:15 pm

    I would say DIRCM balls. It still have places for MAWS sensors although covered or empty.
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    Post  mack8 Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:52 pm

    T-50-5 pictures!
    http://i-korotchenko.livejournal.com/772847.html
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    Post  Rpg type 7v Sat Nov 02, 2013 2:56 pm

    medo wrote:I would say DIRCM balls. It still have places for MAWS sensors although covered or empty.
    this t-50 is getting less and less stealthy by the day... Shocked 
    quite the opposite of yf-22 ----> f/a-22 process...Embarassed 
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    Post  Sujoy Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:15 pm

    Rpg type 7v wrote:this t-50 is getting less and less stealthy by the day... Shocked 
    quite the opposite of yf-22 ----> f/a-22 process...Embarassed 
    There is this song . "If you are happy and you know it , keep it to yourself & let your DAD sleep . " Smile

    The below pictures are of  NPO Saturn's Type 30 5-staged HP compressor section. Not stealthy ??

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    Post  sepheronx Sat Nov 02, 2013 7:25 pm

    Rpg type 7v wrote:
    medo wrote:I would say DIRCM balls. It still have places for MAWS sensors although covered or empty.
    this t-50 is getting less and less stealthy by the day... Shocked 
    quite the opposite of yf-22 ----> f/a-22 process...Embarassed 
    Don't be a dolt. This is a prototype testing specific sensors.

    Last I heard it was the new FLIR but could be DIRCM. T-50-7 (or 6) is supposed to be somewhat different looking as it is supposed to be serial produced model.
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    Post  GarryB Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:27 pm

    Hahaha... the purpose of prototypes is to test and integrate systems individually. Later pre series production models are for testing lots of systems working together...

    The prototype testing stealth will include all the external elements of the final aircraft but it will not be a flying prototype and it wont have the internal equipment and systems... just the external antenna and things that effect the RCS.

    The Stealth prototype may never be revealed in photos... the Mig 1.42 and Mig-1.44 include one stealth and one flying prototype... we have still only seen the flying prototype...

    It will be the stealth prototype where the RCS is first tested and then changes introduced to various antenna and sensors to reduce RCS by reshaping and redesign etc etc.

    In the mean time the Pak Fa 5th prototype will be testing the systems behind the antenna and sensor balls etc to optimise their effectiveness and later in a serially produced model to integrate it into the avionics suite.

    BTW given the choice of being very stealthy (ie low RCS) or DIRCMs I would prefer DIRCMs as DIRCMs will stop FPA Sidewinders... low RCS will have no effect on IIR missiles.
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    Post  Viktor Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:34 pm

    thumbsup 
    Russia renews PAK-FA overtures to South Korea
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    Post  Vann7 Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:44 pm



    Russia needs to show their final Pak-FA model airframe ,if they want to impress traditional US clients that have the opportunity to buy the F-35. For Sales ,functionality and performance is not enough .. the plane visual appearance needs to be totally next generation and needs to impress.

    Usually when Russia sells something to India..India says ok we buy the plane ,but they pick the electronics and avionics of israeli and or an european country. and this needs to change if Russia really wants to more easily sell their stuff.

    So Pak-FA as is now.. could be the best plane ever .but always gets negative reviews for not being "stealthy enough". From the Rear. So is kind of Sick , of reading that a million of times everywhere including from so called Experts sites.. Its like Russia do not get it.. how important is the appearance for the western markets in everything they sale. And the offering Pak-FA in what appears to be in an unfinished airframe.
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    Post  TR1 Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:52 pm

    I wouldn't worry terribly about the firmly US camp, they will buy F-35 anyway.

    Pragmatic customers have experts look at planes, they are not swayed by "eyeball RCS" experts.
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    Post  GarryB Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:45 am

    Russia needs to show their final Pak-FA model airframe ,if they want to impress traditional US clients that have the opportunity to buy the F-35.
    If they had a final production airframe ready why would they bother with testing prototypes?

    If the US really wants to impress the world it should show a fully operational hypersonic bomber... what they haven't built it yet? Where is their credibility with Algeria?

    US clients locked in to buying F-35 are hardly going to consider a Russian aircraft as an alternative.

    F-35 will be built... they have signed contracts.

    Pulling out now would be very expensive but they would get no aircraft at the end of it.

    Usually when Russia sells something to India..India says ok we buy the plane ,but they pick the electronics and avionics of israeli and or an european country. and this needs to change if Russia really wants to more easily sell their stuff.
    India is free to choose the maker of the contents of their new aircraft... lots of stuff in the PAK FA will not be cleared for export anyway, so a French or Israeli alternative is often better for India than the downgraded export Russian model.

    The hidden advantage is that if the Indian aircraft is compromised it reveals less about the Russian Aircraft... and vice versa.

    So Pak-FA as is now.. could be the best plane ever .but always gets negative reviews for not being "stealthy enough".
    Anyone who complains it is not stealthy enough is an idiot... they are prototypes... used for testing certain parameters and certain systems... photos of the RCS prototype may never be released and you need to see those to make a sensible judgement.

    From the Rear. So is kind of Sick , of reading that a million of times everywhere including from so called Experts sites.. Its like Russia do not get it.. how important is the appearance for the western markets in everything they sale. And the offering Pak-FA in what appears to be in an unfinished airframe.
    IF the L band AESA arrays on fighter planes reveal fully stealth fighters then what is the point in spending billions on making planes stealthy when technology is entering service to make them NOT stealthy?

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    Post  Rpg type 7v Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:49 pm

    because coatings can be made selectivly to be transparent for certain ranges of frequencies ,that was done long ago in F-22...
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    Post  GJ Flanker Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:57 pm

    Vann7 wrote:


    So  Pak-FA as is now.. could be the best plane ever .but always gets negative reviews for not being "stealthy enough". From the Rear.  So is kind of Sick , of reading that a million of times everywhere including from so called Experts sites.. Its like Russia do not get it.. how important is the appearance for the western markets in everything they sale.  And the offering Pak-FA in  what appears to be in an unfinished airframe.

    The Russians want an overall better fighter than the F-22A, not necessarily a more "stealthy" one.

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    Post  GarryB Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:27 am

    because coatings can be made selectivly to be transparent for certain ranges of frequencies ,that was done long ago in F-22...
    There is no coating that could be applied that is more transparent than no coating at all...

    Do you perhaps mean coatings that are radar and radio wave absorbent?

    The Russians want an overall better fighter than the F-22A, not necessarily a more "stealthy" one.
    You get it.

    No level of radar stealth for an aircraft the size of a fighter will effect its radar appearance in VHF ranges.... ground based detection stations detecting F-22 sized aircraft at hundreds of kms range passing on data to PAK FA who can fire lock on after launch AAMs with IIR seekers can then clean up the skies of enemy aircraft.
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    Post  Rpg type 7v Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:22 pm

    wrong .
    page 3
    http://www.f22fighter.com/AffordableStealth.pdf
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    Post  GarryB Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:49 am

    Hahaha.... WTF would America know about affordable stealth?

    Love your source BTW... perhaps I could counter by suggesting an F-16 can detect an F-22 at 200km range and quote www.f16.com as my source?

    And Page 3 on the pdf in the link you posted states the opposite of what you talked about.

    You were talking about coatings being transparent, yet clearly on page three of the document you posted it talked about external skin composite materials used in aircraft design being transparent or partially transparent and needing metallic coatings to stop radar waves penetrating the composite outer skin and then reflecting off internal structure and wiring that is not shaped for stealth.

    In other words the partial radar transparency of the outer skin of the F-22 means they needed skin coatings that reflected radar, not that let radar pass through.
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    Post  TR1 Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:55 am

    http://www.knaapo.ru/rus/gallery/events/combat/t-50/t-50-5.wbp

    Wow, that paint scheme looks superb.

    Also, radiation icons on LEVCONs and slats.


    http://russianplanes.net/id124983

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    Post  collegeboy16 Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:13 pm

    TR1 wrote:http://www.knaapo.ru/rus/gallery/events/combat/t-50/t-50-5.wbp

    Wow, that paint scheme looks superb.

    Also, radiation icons on LEVCONs and slats.


    http://russianplanes.net/id124983

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    ...call me the pak-fapper cause im about to fap on this one...
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    Post  Viktor Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:21 pm

    Im stunned. I could not even imagine something like this. russia Very Happy Just great - it looks like a GREAT WHITE SHARK
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    Post  medo Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:40 pm

    Viktor wrote:Im stunned. I could not even imagine something like this. russia Very Happy Just great - it looks like a GREAT WHITE SHARK
    Agree, they could just draw shark mouth on it and angry eyes...Twisted Evil 
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    Post  mack8 Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:47 pm

    Agree, they could just draw shark mouth on it and angry eyes...
    That for fun yes, plus low viz grey stars and the bort number (also low-viz) relocated on the fins for the operational examples, and would be even better.Very Happy 
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    Post  Rpg type 7v Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:59 pm

    An aircraft
    ’s radar is usually a very significant
    contributor to an aircraft
    ’s signature. The F-22
    design significantly reduces the radar
    ’s signature using
    a combination of a bandpass resonant radome and
    low signature rada
    r.The F-22 radome is one of the
    most complex structural components on the F-2The radome
    ’s primary design considerations were:
    •In-band radar performance
    •Low Observables
    •Structural loads including bird strike integrity
    •Rain Erosion
    •Maintainability
    , and

    Lightning strike integrity (Figure 5)
    The Raptors radar is an active element array which
    is tilted back to reduce direct reflection. Element
    manufacturing emphasizes accuracy and repeatabil-
    ity across the large number of radar array elements.
    Key manufacturing processes for circulator radia-
    tor, and T/R module assembly have been automated
    to ensure affordabi..
    Thats what is says. or lets ask SOC?

    Good paint on pak-fa by the way.
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    Post  GarryB Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:21 am

    Well Duh... most radar radomes have those attributes...

    An aircraft
    ’s radar is usually a very significant
    contributor to an aircraft
    ’s signature.
    The same for every fighter flying and they all are the same in the sense that they are radar transparent in the radar frequencies used by the aircraft itself... otherwise the radar inside wouldn't work, but also opaque to other frequencies. Most aircraft and even missiles offset the angle of the main radar antenna array so that enemy radar waves entering the radome are nod reflected directly back to the target as that would create an enormous radar signature... a bit like a luneburg lens effect or corner reflector.

    The F-22 radome is one of the
    most complex structural components on the F-2The radome
    ’s primary design considerations were:
    •In-band radar performance
    In other words very transparent and low distortion of the F-22s own radar waves... pretty much the same for every fighter since WWII.

    •Low Observables
    Well duh... the basic shape deflects waves directed at it elsewhere...

    •Structural loads including bird strike integrity
    •Rain Erosion
    •Maintainability, and

    Lightning strike integrity
    Birdstrike, lightning and rain are things all radomes are designed to deal with...

    The Raptors radar is an active element array which
    is tilted back to reduce direct reflection.


    Nothing new here... most are.

    because coatings can be made selectivly to be transparent for certain ranges of frequencies ,that was done long ago in F-22...
    Coatings cannot be made EFFECTIVE in all frequencies.

    By EFFECTIVE I do not mean transparent... a radar transparent coating does not effect radar waves and therefore is useless as a stealthy coating.

    Coatings can be made that are effective against high frequencies like X band radar... but coatings effective against VHF would need to be several metres thick... only shaping is effective and shaping to be effective needs a large shape... like the size of the B-2.

    The size of a modern fighter is too small... VHF radar does not see shape, so the stealthy shape of the F-22 is not effective, nor would any coating transparent or otherwise.

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