Except when they paid for development of the Nimr armored car it turned into the highly successful Tigr armored car used by Russian military and police, and exported into many many countries. And when they funded the development of a SHORAD for their needs it produced the Pantsyr with similar results. It's completely plausible that if this turns out to be a cheaper alternative to the Su-57 while still providing decent capabilities the VVS will be interested.
The last I heard was that work on the PAK-DP was continuing but no specifics. If they're really working on a hypersonic interceptor, it will be some time.
They might be interested in fielding more mig-31-like planes well before they could produce a true hypersonic 6-th generation interceptor with all the bells and whistles. It is thus not fully clear what they are really working on. Claims that the mig-41 development is based on the mig-31 design and the plans to use engines from su-57 may contradict some of the other stated goals like low observability, hypersonic speed, sub-orbital capability, and anti-missile laser weapon.
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) likely supersonic but probably not faster than F35 probably similar payload to. No naval or V/STOL (though with the state of Russian Naval forces they don’t have the decks for such) would theoretically simply things but given the status of Russia and its industry.
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Ok somethings to clear up. First off the MiG-41 name has been mentioned in relation to the PAK-DP project. Different design bureau, different program. This is the LTS by Sukhoi.Looks like some of those “Mig41” fan concepts MiG-41 profile by RenderDock on DeviantArt
got it actually right. Though this is not a Mig.
We have an under nose intake along the lines of Boeing’s X32 JSF. Single engine, twin tail clearly not hypersonic or suborbital. (Guess we will just have to keep fighting the System lord invasion fleets with the US made X302 and BC304s
Questions are 1) when will they have a flyer. As realistically tho is probably just a mock.
2) can they move this to production fast enough to meet potential market wants. SU57 is nowhere near production despite being now 11 years old. And they are pushing a second and third VLO with a fourth perpetually in the background.
This is clearly targeting export but could the potential buyers get the product? On time? On Money? Even sustain it?
As stated in my post this is not a Mig. “Mig41” as a moniker has been used by CGI artists for a number of fan designs in particular I linked to one of them that has that fictional name and bears a resemblance. It’s also been attached to PAK DP under the logic of Mig31 follow on. Yet nothing seems to have come of it.
Nice to find another Deviantart-member here.Looks like some of those “Mig41” fan concepts MiG-41 profile by RenderDock on DeviantArt
got it actually right. Though this is not a Mig.
We have an under nose intake along the lines of Boeing’s X32 JSF. Single engine, twin tail clearly not hypersonic or suborbital. (Guess we will just have to keep fighting the System lord invasion fleets with the US made X302 and BC304s
Questions are 1) when will they have a flyer. As realistically tho is probably just a mock.
2) can they move this to production fast enough to meet potential market wants. SU57 is nowhere near production despite being now 11 years old. And they are pushing a second and third VLO with a fourth perpetually in the background.
This is clearly targeting export but could the potential buyers get the product? On time? On Money? Even sustain it?
For sake of clarity I am not the artist. I do have an account though.
The production pace is no slower then the projections before the accident. It was always planned to be this slow. 1 aircraft the first year, 1 the second. The 1st crashed in 2019, right before handover. The second was handed over in 2020 as planned. 4 are planned this year.
4 this year? I don't think so. They announced a max of 2 this year.
The original production plan broken down by year went like this: 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 12. Now after receiving the 1 and 1, they've announced 5 this year. So not only has production not slowed after the crash it appears to have accelerated. It is possible that this information is wrong, though the source is a statement from KnAAPO. But either way there is no sign that production slowed down following the crash of the first serial aircraft. You'll note though that while 1 aircraft was produced last year it's apparently been mentioned as delivered to the troops this year which makes for 5.4 this year? I don't think so. They announced a max of 2 this year.
But that's unlikely considering the horrible covid situation in Russia.
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Happy to defer to the experts on this one, but my understanding is that it is a bit of a myth that US doctrine is in some way "phobic" of the merge or WVR engagements in general. Rather, the doctrine emphasises killing as many bandits as possible before the merge occurs so that you can enter it with a numerical advantage, which immediately skews the likely outcome of that merge in your favour regardless of the capabilities of the enemy aircraft being encountered. Layered on top of that is an emphasis on using missiles to do the bulk of the hard turning once in a WVR environment so that the aircraft itself can remain in a higher energy state, giving it a better chance of performing successful defensive maneuvers against incoming AAMs, and exiting the WVR environment if needed. This doesn't square well with TVC, which generally trades rapid movements in pitch/yaw for corresponding losses in energy/airspeed. The doctrinal difference is also embodied by the F35's AN/AAQ-37 system, which allows for missile cueing (in WVR) in any direction, regardless of target aspect or orientation, reducing (and possibly eliminating) the need to bleed energy in WVR.
