Did you mean how the leading edge is cropped?
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Did you mean how the leading edge is cropped?
yeah the cropped leading edge. That's very unusual.
The President of India flew on a Su-30MKI aircraft. Indian President Draupadi Murmu flew a Su-30MKI fighter jet. The aircraft was flown by the commander of the 106th squadron, Naveen Kumar. The flight lasted 30 minutes at an altitude of 2 kilometers, at a speed of about 800 kilometers per hour. The Su-30MKI fighter is a modification of the Su-30MK, about 100 of these aircraft were delivered to India. Now in India, the Su-30MKI fighter from Russian kits is manufactured under license by the Hindustan Aeronautics Corporation. Limited. The Indian Air Force currently has approximately 270 such aircraft, including those supplied by Russia. According to the President of India, it was an exciting experience for her. She expressed pride that the country's defense potential has grown.
ISRO doing a landing test for their "space shuttle" scale prototype. Dropped from a Chinook. Chinook? Don't they have something bigger to drop it from a higher altitude?
Probably not getting clearance to use IL-76 or C-17.
Dropping a model from a helicopter is also probably much simpler and cheaper than designing and manufacturing a mounting point for a aircraft.
NASA's X-40 also used requisitioned Chinooks in similar flight profiles akin to the recent RLV-LEX. The latter had been tried with Mi-17s but that failed to achieve required height.
RLV with its interface up close
The Japanese also had one going for them before economic stagnation came in
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