LoooSeR Posted July 20, 2021 Report Share Posted July 20, 2021 Sone pics, including few by Yuri Pasholok Spoiler Timeline planned for LTS 2023 - first flight of LTS 2024-25 - Test LTS production 2026 - First serial production batch Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted July 21, 2021 Report Share Posted July 21, 2021 The time schedule seems to be impossible to me. I read elsewhere that there is an internal bay for 3x RVV-SD (or 2 AGM/bombs) and two small internal bays for one RVV-MD each and that the target running cost is on Gripen level, i.e. super cheap. Can you confirm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.T Posted July 21, 2021 Report Share Posted July 21, 2021 They actually announced that they already have a foreign launch customer since the start of the development !? Most important take is probably this is supposedly developed like USAF suggested for E-series , wholly digitally developed and tested prior to making a prototype shortening the development time considerably. English language presentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreyKryuchenko Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate Walkaround alanch90 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 22, 2021 Report Share Posted July 22, 2021 More footage of Vikhr-1 test fires. In video texts display some stats of the missile - 10 km max range, HE-Frag warhead, 750 mm pen after ERA, 610 m/s speed, missile rated for launch from 10-4000m altitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperComrade Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 I don't understand how the Su-75 is going to have a unit cost of under $30 million, considering that an F-16 Block 70 has a unit cost of $64 million? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregHouse Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 I really would like to know what's going on with the two IRST systems. Did they go for a long-wave *and* a mid-wave sensor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.T Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 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 Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.T Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 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. Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.T Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 10 hours ago, GregHouse said: I really would like to know what's going on with the two IRST systems. Did they go for a long-wave *and* a mid-wave sensor? Likely just two diffrerent systems sort of EOTS and separate IRST , no need to drag a Sniper pod if you have that capabilty buit in. Rafale has both side by side , as do some chinese pods for fighters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 23, 2021 Report Share Posted July 23, 2021 Some more pics of Sukhoi's LTS Spoiler Sections near engine nozzle looks movable to me... Spoiler Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 5, 2021 Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 At 0:14 Sukhoi's official tells president that they can put 250 kg bombs in side bays or AA missiles. Lol, still managed to stick even more iron bombs into LTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Quote Production of a prototype UAV S-70 "Okhotnik" at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after Chkalov. Spoiler Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delete013 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Not sure if this channel content has been posted before but it offers some good interviews on the cold war and modern tech, especially some comparisons between east and west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted August 14, 2021 Report Share Posted August 14, 2021 Russian Navy brand new Beriev BE-200 RF-88450 crashed on a firefighting mission in Turkey. All eight people onboard died in the crash. Video of the accident and a photo of the wreckage under the link: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210814-0 From the video it looks to me that the crew probably misjudged the climb they needed to take to get over the mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2740663/rapid-dragon-conducts-first-system-level-demonstration-of-palletized-munitions/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Few days back the ill-fated Il-112V project suffered another setback when the prototype crashed killing all three crewmembers onboard. The crash occured because of massive engine fire at low speed and altitude possibly combined with non-functional propeller feathering system (not confirmed yet). There is a lot of talk about the TV7-117ST engines being source of constant troubles all the time through the development (aside of issues with airframe weight and center of gravity). Video of the accident Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Izdelie 305 / LMUR was shown at Army 2021 forum, also 305E (export version) was revealed. Quote General Designer of the Research and Production Corporation "Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering" Valery Kashin in a conversation with "Zvezda" spoke about the unique properties of the newest guided missile of the "air-to-surface" class "Product 305E". The novelty is presented at the Army forum. This light multipurpose guided missile is being presented to the general public for the first time. It is designed to arm combat helicopters - Mi-28NM, Ka-52M, as well as on some modifications of the Mi-8. “For the first time in our class of helicopter armament, a missile shown is “fire-and-forget” type of system. The missile has a guaranteed range of 14.5 kilometers. Depending on the flight altitude, on the conditions of use, this range can be even greater, ”he explained. As the designer said, the missile is designed to hit various targets - not so much tanks as those targets that are deep in the defense, at range. The rocket has a thermal imaging homing head, a fairly accurate inertial navigation system coupled with GLONASS, an altimeter and a communication channel with the helicopter that launched it. Spoiler Quote According to Kashin, the missile can be used in several modes. The first is the “fire and forget” mode, when it has captured the target while missile is right under the wing of the helicopter and then carries out its task without any interference from the helicopter crew. "The second option - the helicopter detected the target using its sighting system, transmitted the coordinates of the target to the missile board and then the missile performs a flight initially in inertial mode, and then captures the target according to the reference entered into it," Kashin said. The third option is when the helicopter is at a distance, and its own detection and aiming equipment cannot detect the target. It was given the approximate coordinates of the target, it shoots a rocket in this area in an inertial mode. When the missile approaches the target, several kilometers away, the missile transmits on board the image that the seeker sees. The weapon operator, who ensured the launch of the rocket, indicates the target to the rocket, then the rocket captures it and aims at it until a direct hit. Some shown charachteristics: Spoiler So 14.5 km range or higher. Speed is up to 230 m/s, flight altitude is 100-600 meters. Guidance - inertial, with satelite correction, on terminal phase - thermal imaging seeker. Weight of this missile is 105 kg, 25 of which is HE-Frag warhead. Missile have 3 guidance modes: Fire and Forget at targets "nearby" Launch at long ranges using data collected by helicopter sensors. Inertial and satelite navigation systems brings missile into target area, then thermal imager seeker/computer starts to search for target based on reference image Man in the loop variant of second mode - instead of software that tries to recognise target, missile sends videofeed via datalink with gunship, and weapon operator chooses target for missile to lock on. Used in case of helicopter receive targeting data externally (via Strelets system, for example) Missile is already intergrated to Ka-52. Spoiler Launcher of Izdelie 305 / LMUR Probably a subvariant of LMUR? Interesting bits in lower part - Izdelie 305 and under it shows integration with Strelets system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 27, 2021 Report Share Posted August 27, 2021 Brochure on 305E (pics stolen from otvaga) Spoiler Beer and alanch90 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 5, 2021 Report Share Posted September 5, 2021 Vikhr-1 Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted September 27, 2021 Report Share Posted September 27, 2021 https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-09-27 "DARPA, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, completed a free flight test of its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) last week. The missile, built by Raytheon Technologies, was released from an aircraft seconds before its Northrop Grumman scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) engine kicked on. The engine compressed incoming air mixed with its hydrocarbon fuel and began igniting that fast-moving airflow mixture, propelling the cruiser at a speed greater than Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Quote ....Kosmos-2551 since the launch has not corrected its orbit and has been descending more and more rapidly closer to Earth, if it continues descend, it will soon enter the dense layers of the atmosphere. Quote Kosmos-2551 was lost 41 days after the launch into orbit. According to unconfirmed reports, it was experimental reconnaissance satellite of a light class (150-250 kg) "Razbeg". In the long term, the "Razbeg" should become a cheap and mass produced optical reconnaissance satellite, complementing the heavy "Razdan" satellites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 Some unusual flying thingies. Personal quadbike sized quadrocopter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 And while we are on a subject of weird flying vehicles: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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