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To: Srirangan

5 posted on 01/18/2006 7:40:39 AM PST by xrp
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To: xrp
That thing is about as combat ready as my sofa.

It doesn't carry enough gas to go around the block.

11 posted on 01/18/2006 7:46:13 AM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: xrp

I think this plane has been shelved.

22 posted on 01/18/2006 7:56:33 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: xrp

There are also some reports from the Indians that:

1) The canard wing has been scrapped in favor of a standard planform to reduce production costs/complexity.

2) The date that the Russians were originally using for production was 2009, not 2007.

3) The Russians were also talking about possible funding constraints in this project. (Priorities went to commercial aircraft development.)

Sounds to me like the good General has got himself a nifty new fighter that got its budget chopped, so he's shopping it around to the Indians to get THEM to "build it under license". (Actually to fund and finish up the project for the Reds.)

Looks like a hot ride, but the size (70,000+ lb), lack of aerial refuel and rest of the configuration shown in your picture would limit the bird to VERY long, well-maintained runways and a high speed/high altitude/maybe 200 mile radius interceptor role.

How it would do as a dogfighter with the standard swept wing and all that weight............


32 posted on 01/18/2006 8:48:39 AM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (I can't really accept a welcome home until the last MIA does.)
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To: xrp

The swept-forward wings look like what NASA was doing a few years ago for high mobility jets, but which was abandoned.

We consentrated on speed, instead.


52 posted on 01/18/2006 11:13:54 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: xrp

Hey dude! The wings are on backwards man!


54 posted on 01/18/2006 12:18:00 PM PST by conservative barking moonbat (2000 Light years from home)
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