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Overheal

The Next Generation Russian Fighter emerges.

And its sexy as a motherf*cker.

Gizmodo.com wrote:

Most people know the US fifth generation wonderplanes—the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II—but the Russians are working on their own stealth superfighter: The Sukhoi PAK-FA. These concepts—by industrial designer Aleksander Dultsev—are simply amazing

Gizmodo.com wrote:

Nobody knows if the real PAK-FA will look anything similar to any of these three models, but we will probably discover it sooner than later: The Sukhoi PAK-FA will replace the MiG-29 Fulcrum and the Su-27 Flanker in the Russian Air Force, with a first flight initially projected for this year.
What we know for sure is that new Sukhoi fighter will directly compete against the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II.

Gizmodo.com wrote:

I, for one, hope that they never have to engage in combat.

Ditto. But seriously: this is plane porn.


From wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA

Maiden flight

It was announced on 5 May 2007 by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov that the first flight of the new aircraft was expected in late 2008, almost a year later than originally expected.[8] That estimate has now been superseded by the statement of Sukhoi CEO Mikhail Pogosyan, who stated at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) 2007 exhibition in Malaysia on December 6 that the prototype will not fly until 2009.[9] This was again confirmed by the deputy prime minister in charge of arms procurement, Sergei Ivanov, in a news conference after a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission in January 2009.[10] On 28 of February 2009 Mikhail Pogosyan announced that the airframe for the aircraft was almost finished and that the first prototype should be ready by August 2009.[11]

Bear in mind these are concept arts... but damn sexy concept arts. One candidate is a Raptoresque diamond-wing, and then a more familiar sukhoi V-wing. I favor the V for sex appeal

Other very good conepts on the project also on google images.

http://images.google.com/images?q=PAK-FA&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=qw1USsu_E9WytwevpZiqCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4



These last two however dont look like strong Stealth Capable frames imo.

cyrusdvirus

plane porn, plain porn... it's all good to me.....

Somewhere out west, Steyr is a VERY excited man!!

Oink

oh mama. V-wing... V-wing all the way... oh yeah....

There must be murder over there over who gets to fly this thing.


EDIT:

new Sukhoi fighter will directly compete against the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! (yeah, yeah, WWIII, Armageddon, end of the world, yadi yadi yada. FIIIIGHT!!)

KTRIC

I was going to post this earlier.


All I can say is DAMN SEXY!!!

Owen

OP edited to remove large image. When linking images, please keep it less than 800 pixels wide.

Tenger

Overheal wrote: »

The Next Generation Russian Fighter emerges.

And its sexy as a motherf*cker.

That it is.

Looks like an F-22 with a Su-27 nose.

Steyr

Tenger wrote: »

That it is.

Looks like an F-22 with a Su-27 nose.

Gatecrash shhhhhhhh:D They look very "American" IMO it's like they have gone back to copying US/Western Designs like they did in the 50's/Cold War era.

Steyr

Overheal wrote: »

Looks like a cross between an F15E and an F22.

Steyr

Overheal wrote: »

YF23.

Overheal

yeah, the V is the most distinct model. I hope they went with it.

Tenger

Steyr wrote: »

Looks like a cross between an F15E and an F22.

This one to me looks like the most likely to be built. It could be a development of the S47 Berkut prototype. The others while very sexy look too 'concepty' to my eyes.

The clone of the YF-23 is proper Soviet era innovation though!

Owen

And even if it never makes it to production, I hope someone brings out a model for FSX/FS9.