PAK-FA, T-50: News #4

Hole wrote:How did we get from the Su-57 to the Buccaneer?

LMFS wrote:.....

I have the suspicion that the T-50s were in Syria for longer than stated and were only removed when it was leaked or allowed to leak their presence there. This would have been a good test of their stealth on the one hand and a warning to hot heads on the other, what do you think?

Hole wrote:The were deployed without special hangars like the planes of some other countries.

ZoA wrote:No way it can fit 4 Kh-59MK2 in that thing. Maybe 2 can fit, but my guess is most probably single heavy missiles like Kh-59 occupies entire central bay, so in addition to it it can carry only 2 more short range a-a missile in side bays for self defence.

If they want to fit 4 bombs / missile in central bay they will most lilly use Kh-38 that are much shorter and could fit in.

The bays are 4.5 x 1 m, so it most probably can carry 4. No sense in designing the missile so carefully to stay within that 40 x 40 cm section if you are just going to carry one in a 1 m wide bay.

marcellogo wrote:

Isos wrote:

The bays are 4.5 x 1 m, so it most probably can carry 4. No sense in designing the missile so carefully to stay within that 40 x 40 cm section if you are just going to carry one in a 1 m wide bay.

Kh-38 are 4.2 x 0.31m and larger with wings so it can't carry more than 4 too just like kh-59 unless they make it smaller to have 3 per bays.

They will need to work on weapons too. They have long range kh'59, smaller range kh-35U and they need a new kh-25/38 class misslle. And gliding bombs.

0.31m+ 0.31m+ 0.31m= 0.93m i.e. by a narrow margin but they can fit, just need to carry the central one a  little forward so that the wings didn't add to the total width...

Isos wrote:

marcellogo wrote:

Isos wrote:

The bays are 4.5 x 1 m, so it most probably can carry 4. No sense in designing the missile so carefully to stay within that 40 x 40 cm section if you are just going to carry one in a 1 m wide bay.

Kh-38 are 4.2 x 0.31m and larger with wings so it can't carry more than 4 too just like kh-59 unless they make it smaller to have 3 per bays.

They will need to work on weapons too. They have long range kh'59, smaller range kh-35U and they need a new kh-25/38 class misslle. And gliding bombs.

0.31m+ 0.31m+ 0.31m= 0.93m i.e. by a narrow margin but they can fit, just need to carry the central one a  little forward so that the wings didn't add to the total width...

yeah but you can't just put them with only few cm between them. When released they could touch one another and destroy the aircraft. And that's if you don't take the wing into account. They have wingspan of 1.14 m.

Wiki page says they have folding wings but yet it still adds some cm to the width so you still can't put 3 per bays.

The best solution is to use the design of kh-59mk2.