There is absolutely zero evidence to prove it for Su-30/MiG-31, MiG-35 is a dead program and Russia doesn’t even operate MiG-29s in Ukraine.
Do you have anything to back up your claims?
ES in PESA stands for electronic scanning.
interesting table. Can you tell from where you get it?
Maybe it’s not on 156 or I’m missing it but I don’t see them on there.
there are no good quality 156 photos before it was converted into OVT, but you can see a small protrusion on the left wingtip here. This is where L-150 antennas are installed on 9.41 and 9.47 airframes.
Same protrusions are on 29OVT which is the very same airframe
its not pesa
Im a bit undecided on what these antennas actually are, since some books claim these as part of the ECM station, some say RWR antennas and some claim both?
first fighter jet with pesa is 1.42 with n014 radar
MiG 1.42 and N014 don’t exist.
Iirc for the wing tips at least ik there’s probably some ECM suite stuff in there, dunno about those tail stingers though.
Seems like the placement is a bit different on 9.41/47 (moved a wink to the right/left for their respective wing), saying that is an L-150 node on 156.
I think i found the reason why someone claimed AL-31 to be modernisation of RD-33 in that table. In 1975 Lyulka had problems with high-pressure compressor. So, they used the geometry of a compressor from RD-33, because at that time it succesfully completed the trials. But only the geometry of the compressor was taken from RD-33, compressor itself was a completely original design. Other than that AL-31F is a completely original design by Lyulka
Considering that 9.41 has changes to the wing itself, i think it’s just a tweak and not completely new design
How can a jet be the first of something when it doesn’t exist?
it was ready for mass production
@Fulcrum-E you know you should just remake this, but dont put dev in the title and use one of the current 9.12s in game
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How can a jet that had whole ass 2 test flights as a tech demonstrator be ready for mass production?
me when bypass jets have similarities in design. Okay, tell me how AL-31 can be based on RD-33 if RD-33 at the time of design work on AL-31 didn’t even pass the trials? RD-33 trials finished in 1972 while work on AL-31 had begun in 1971
No it was not.
It was still doing flight tests in the 2000s, even then still lacking very basic components.
i see you know nothing about this project
i only say the blueprints was appear in 1989
and its state order, he would have appear in any case
Ok that’s false, it had dozens if not hundreds of test flights if I remember correctly.