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When you realy need sustained fire rates strap on the classic
 

When you realy need sustained fire rates strap on the classic
 

When you realy need sustained fire rates strap on the classic
 

British procurement looking more like that of India every day , evil tongues could say of same folks running the show .

British procurement looking more like that of India every day , evil tongues could say of same folks running the show .

Although this looks like civilian one , it looks like there are add on armor panels on front doors , folding rotors also hint towards shipborne use
 
Again new composite fuselage 
 
Figures presented at MAKS indicate that that maximum speed rose to 134kt (250km/h), up from 118kt; range grew to 302nm (560km), from 260nm; while payload for the 3.6t helicopter grew to 1,000kg (2,204lb), up from 785kg.
 
 

 

Seems like there is some new developments with helos as well
 
Mil 171 'Gazprom' looks like completely new machine combining new fuselage with Mil28 power train and rotor system. Will it also end up as cheap alternative to Mil 38 for the military?
 
Considering how smooth it is i gather its mostly composite  construction which should also saved some weight
 


 
 
 

Composite picture
 
Picts make cockpit canopy  look small like in in the old 60s era fighters 
 

Composite picture
 
Picts make cockpit canopy  look small like in in the old 60s era fighters 
 

Picts unrelated to actual craft , in any case no 5gen project in the world follows F35 or X-35 for good reason as first of these are designed to peculiar specification for a medium altitude medium speed bomb truck that has to also be made to serve in 3 widely differing configurations while using same fat air frame and massive engine to make VTOL work.  Every one else is developing a fighter with some ground attack capability and no Vtol configuration. So current designs Chinese, Korean,Japanese,Brit are far more along the lines of F22 than anything else . If this is using same engine as Su57 this is be the smallest and lightest of the  5th gen offerings much smaller than f35 
 
the X-32 chin inlet is quite specific to the positioning of the engine right behind the pilot due to harrier like Vtol configuration , if Russian model has a chin intake you can bet 100% its for different reasons .Looking at the actual picts not the unrelated fan renders or model photos it doesn't seem to have an x-32 like intake. it also looks like it doesn't have any horizontal tail (altough these could be just unmounted to further confuse the observers)
 
Design configuration seems quite unique . 


 

Some reports say its a drone.

It seems some testing for stealthier nozzles for flying wing ither C-70 Okhotnik UAV or some other project like Pak DA bomber
 
Looks kinda long setup for C-70 

 
 
Update It seems its not a nozzle for the UAV but so something supersonic
 
Tests under the project "Supersonic Civil Aircraft" (code "SDS / SPS") on the plane - flying laboratory Il-76LL.

More likely cut on waterjet as laser would anneal the material on the cut and its also quite thick plate to cut .

Indeed 
 
Ole standard loadout for T72/90 had ammo all over , hard not to hit any in case of penetration. Literaly charges and rounds everywhere .Not to mention the extra ammo is actually for reloading into carusel so its used last.
 

 
 

Indeed 
 
Ole standard loadout for T72/90 had ammo all over , hard not to hit any in case of penetration. Literaly charges and rounds everywhere .Not to mention the extra ammo is actually for reloading into carusel so its used last.
 

 
 

Turret design with wide cheeks is great in terms of armor protection  to weight ratio, cheek armor protects in the frontal 60° while other turrets need bunch of side armor to equal that protection.
 
 

 

Thermal vids ,ambushes
 

Thermal vids ,ambushes
 

Parachute drop malfunction BMP2  BMD2
 


 

 

Parachute drop malfunction BMP2  BMD2
 


 

 

Parachute drop malfunction BMP2  BMD2
 


 

 

Quite heavily armed for such a small unmaned boat
 
The boat is 15 meters in lenght, has a top speed of 42 knots and a range of autonomous navigation of 500 nautical miles. JARI USV is equipped with an electro-optical sensor on the top of the superstructure, a phased array radar, and a sonar. 

Depending on the combat mission, the boat can be armed with a vertical launch unit with eight cells, twin torpedos and a remotely-controlled combat module with a 30-mm automatic gun and guided missile launcher