the Russian industry on the other hand pretty much stagnated. What's left in the vodka barrel for the Chinese to grab?
not stagnated
The K-77M air-to-air missile with this advanced guidance system will be fitted on to the fifth-generation fighter jet PAK-FA (advanced frontline aircraft system, also codenamed T-50) and it will start to be delivered to the Russian Air Force by 2017.
The major innovation of the K-77M air-to-air missile is its guidance system, based
on an active phased array antenna (APAA) of its own, Izvestia daily reports. With APAA onboard, the missile has zero reaction time to unexpected evolutions of the target, which means that once it locks on an aircraft, it would hit it no matter what aerial acrobatics the target would perform to shake off the inbound killer missile.
Su-35 is not the best Russian technology, neither in engines, radars or technology
We have developed a Zhuk-AE version
featuring an increased-diameter 688-mm
AESA – the FGA-35 – for use on
production-standard fighters. The number
of the AESA’s T-R modules has grown by
almost 50% to more than a thousand. The
radar’s performance improved considerably
with an insignificant weight increase.
Companies in United Engine Corporation is developing so-called "engine of the second stage" for the Sukhoi PAK FA (PAK FA), informs "Interfax" referring to the director general of the corporation Vladislav Masalova.
"Work on the creation of the engine of the second stage are conducted so as to ensure that in 2017 the first flight of the PAK FA with the engines of the second stage of the initial resource", - said V. Masalov. He noted that the engines of the second stage, which will replace the engines "Article 117", which is now equipped with a fifth-generation fighter will provide supersonic cruise flight.
"The main parameters of the engine of the second stage will be 15-18% more efficient than the characteristics of the engine used today", - said V. Masalov. Designing the power plant for the project PAK FA is carried out in two stages. On the first machine was "the product 117» ─ turbojet engine AL-41F1, related power plant AL-41F1S for the Su-35S ("the product 117C").
The engine of the second stage, also known as "article 30" (previously it is also called in the press "article 129", it later became clear that under these codes takes only a fraction of the power plant) at the momentrazrabatyvaetsya. The power plant will be different from the AL-41F1 improved fuel efficiency and lower life cycle costs, the newspaper writes
