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Pak-Fa has a 384 m/s climb rate

 

Thats apparently a record

 

With the primary source looking to be Sputnik International quoting a Russian blog quoting "sources" on Facebook, and no actual time-to-altitude numbers... Somebody said something about a "a source that isn't dogshit"?

 

(Most of the FIA time-to-altitude records for jet aircraft are currently held by two Belorussian MiG-29 pilots IIRC.)

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Somebody has a hard time with Google:

http://www.defenseworld.net/news/15394/Russian_T_50_Fighter_Demonstrated_Climb_To_Mount_Everest_Altitude_In_23_Seconds#.VspeO59MHqA

"Russia’s T-50 or PAK-FA fifth generation fighter aircraft achieved a climbing rate of 384 meters per second, a speed at which it could reach the altitude of Mount Everest (8848m) in 23 seconds.

This feat was demonstrated during testing recently, according to Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta."

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Consensus view I've seen is that the 384 m/s climb rate is a low-altitude climb rate, not a sustainable rate.  That's somewhat better than most existing designs if that's an initial climb rate, but it's something like twice as good as existing designs if it's a sustained rate, which is much harder to believe.

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Consensus view I've seen is that the 384 m/s climb rate is a low-altitude climb rate, not a sustainable rate.  That's somewhat better than most existing designs if that's an initial climb rate, but it's something like twice as good as existing designs if it's a sustained rate, which is much harder to believe.

 

That's based on the time to 29,000 feet, so yeah, it's low altitude climb, but it's not exactly a sprint, either.

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Key Publishing's usually interesting PAK-FA thread has devolved into a lot of stupid name-calling surrounding the issue of the PAK-FA's small-ish vertical stabilizers (and Paralay tragically misunderstanding how mach cones work).

 

They are right about one thing; the F-22 has gigantic vertical stabilizers:

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And the PAK-FA does not.

Most of the discussion has centered around whether the LEVCONs could add enough yaw authority to compensate for the teensy tailfins.  I have an alternative hypothesis.

 

Doesn't the "tunnel" created by the podded engine configuration add side area?  And isn't most of this side area aft of the center of gravity?

 

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But we can check this hypothesis!  The F-14 also had podded engines.  How big were its vertical stabilizers in comparison to aircraft of similar size and role?

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Hmm, yes, they do seem a bit smaller.  Especially when you account for the fact that the F-15's vertical stabilizers start on booms at about the vertical centerline of the fuselage on the sides:

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While the F-14's start from the tops of the engine pods:

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But then again, the flanker has podded engines and its vertical stabilizers are absolutely enormous:

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  • 4 weeks later...

For years now I've been reading that PAK-FA has some sort of variable geometry inlets.  But for the life of me I cannot see any sort of variable geometry elements in the inlets.  I see SU-27 style FOD protection grilles, but I don't see anything that looks like an adjustable ramp next to a bypass door.

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