The Su-47 armament compartment…
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its not about it having Hardpoints, its about it having the wiring and capability to actually fire the weapons, again going back to the EAP, it had hardpoints and flew with inert missiles, but lacked the wiring to fire them, making them useless
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God damn, 144 A2A missiles!
The entire aircraft was a test bed for the retractable weapons bay on the SU-57, hence why it only has 1 internal bay for a maximum of 2 missiles on the 2 mock-up hardpoints. Where the SU-57 features 2 of these bays in tandem (1 behind the other).
The XL as far as I’m aware was finished as they just took a regular F16 and modified the wings
The XL was finished enough to be armed tbh
I mean there was that Photo of it with 2 9L’s on the wingtips. Though whether there was anything else on it I wouldn’t know.
Not so!..The S-37 (since 2001, the Su-47) has always been claimed by Sukhoi as an experimental aircraft, it was journalists who came up with the Legend that this is a prototype of a 5th generation fighter …
- For example, it has a wing made of 90% composite materials (only the power set is metal and also 15% of the airframe made of composite materials…
- About the armament compartment-take a close look at the early photos and drawing… At that time, it was the only domestic aircraft having the dimensions of a fighter, but at the same time equipped with an internal cargo compartment…
- The first photo…In 2006-2007, Berkut received a new cargo bay, created according to the T-50 project. The purpose of this revision was to check the flaps and internal equipment of the compartment for operability in real flight conditions. The Su-47 with such a cargo compartment made about 70 flights with open doors. Interestingly, the doors of the first test compartment were opened and fixed on the ground. In 2008-2009, the Su-47 received an updated payload volume with flap opening mechanisms. In 2009, 25 flights were performed with the opening of the flaps.
Funnily enough I was thinking of the backwards wing F-16 when I said the XL. But this is much more interesting.
the XL could be added to the game pretty easily, same with a lot of the experimental US aircraft as a lot of them kept there hardpoints or had hardpoints added to them, pretty sure the F-15 with thrust vectoring could also be armed