AW249 ‘Fenice’, Italian Ingenuity
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Mi-28NM with Kh-39 (LMUR, Izdeliye 305)
Reported range is 14.5km but evidence shows over 25km.
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25+km is for the extended range LMUR (izd-305UD)
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That’s the one being used which would be nice to see.
both are being used
should also come on Ka-52 with a Ka-52M modification to research
Ka-52M mod would also give it a AESA.
Sounds like en excuse to just add another Ka-52
(and considering Z-10M/Z-10ME got datamined as own, separate, vehicles Id say its not far fetched)
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and better DIRCM and so on so forth
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Ka-52M,Ka-52K and the Egyptian Ka-52 would be very nice vehicles to see.
It gets an entire avionics upgrade and like you mentioned that includes the defense suite, and when we get radar jamming it’ll have those options as well built into the Vitebsk.
and Ka-50 yellow 25, Ka-50Sh, the early Ka-52 prototype with Hermes-A 20km range ATGM’s (datalink guided btw so no warning at all), many more Ka-52 prototypes like the one with Kh-25ML and R-73 and even more kamovs!!
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What is this?
New Chinese J-36 I think
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I though j-36 is 1 seater
its a fighter bomber
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It’s like a B-2, J-20, F-111, and F-107 had a child
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not really, basically a air cruiser, supersonic cruising, hunting AWACS refueller or enemy 5th gen from flank. Of course it can carry some large AGMs, but it’s like MIG-31, you won’t call that a fighter bomber isn’t it?
parallel seats like that enables better communication to do things like commanding drones or do AWACS job
well, side by side seating is almost completely used on aircraft with a significant focus on ground attack, F-111, Su-25, Su-34, A-37, A-6, B-21 etc
or SEAD/EW like EF-111 and EA-6B
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you need to know why they choose side by side seats. It’s basically sacrifice aerodynamic performance/dog fight vision field for better communication(SU-34, A-6, A-37, EA-6), or just the plane is big enough that side by side seating won’t influence aerodynamic performance(Bombers like F-111, B-2, and they also need crews communications too).
in this case, it’s totally not a dog fighter, it’s the Shenyang 6th’s job, and it’s big enough.
On the other hand, if you are not a dog fighter, and a smaller plane need reduce drag, you can always choose side by side.
it also makes the fuselage wider to fit the big DSI on top
or its the other way around
but yeah i think crew communication will be very important for this one’s role, which leads me to think it wont be very a2a focused at all, probably drones or awacs or some kind of special strike role like you said
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