Footage of exercises with the Russian armored train "Yenisei". It is worth noting that it can only be called an armored train conditionally; its main function is engineering reconnaissance, transportation of materials and restoration and protection of railway tracks. On the armored train on the platform, a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle is installed, there are crews of 82-mm mortars, anti-aircraft and tank machine guns. Military personnel also use drones.
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Russian MiG-31 aircraft with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Tu-22M3 bombers patrolled the western border of Russia over the Baltic waters. During the flight, the crews of the MiG-31 aircraft practiced in-flight refueling from the Il-78 aircraft. Fighter escort was also provided by Russian Su-30SM and Su-35S aircraft. At certain stages of the route, Russian aircraft were accompanied by Finnish F-18 fighters armed with AIM-9 air-to-air missiles.
The Russian army has modernized the design of Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Ukrainian media reported this. According to materials published by the Ukrainian side, Russia has made changes to the design of 9M723 ballistic missiles. Apparently the developers considered that the missiles had sufficient characteristics to overcome air defense systems and increased the noise immunity and accuracy of the missiles. The published photos show that the decoy submunitions previously used in missiles, which were fired in flight to distract air defense systems, have been removed from the missile. To increase the noise immunity and accuracy of the missiles, additional GPS/GLONASS satellite navigation modules are installed, similar to the Comet satellite data reception module; each of them has four 4-beam antennas. The Iskander-M complex was put into service in 2006 and uses two types of missiles, the 9M723 ballistic missile, also called Iskander-M, and the 9M728 Iskander-K cruise missile.
2,500 km/h is Mach 2.35 which is the original requirement for PAK-FA, so wonder if this number is recycled or generic. Dubai Air Show 2023 numbers for Su-57E by ROE, which has the same airframe and AL-41F1 engines but likely downgraded export avionics, show more a realistic number of Mach 2 or 2,135 km/h. Supercruise at that speed is too much of a reach, according to Saturn the specific thrust of izd.30/AL-51F1 is just 6.4% higher than AL-41F1.
Also Su-57 is structurally mainly aluminum alloys, while F-22 uses much more titanium and also high temperature composites.
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I am not sure what you mean by that. The skin of the Su-57 aircraft is basically all made of composites.
As for the lack of use of titanium, that was likely done for cost effectiveness reasons. But it shouldn't be critical in preventing the aircraft from reaching Mach 2.35. Not when the Su-27, which barely uses titanium, can reach those kinds of speeds.
As for the lack of use of titanium, that was likely done for cost effectiveness reasons. But it shouldn't be critical in preventing the aircraft from reaching Mach 2.35. Not when the Su-27, which barely uses titanium, can reach those kinds of speeds.
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you should not rely on export figures presented in a defense show.
They presented Skat S350 the advanced version of SuperCam with 4 hour endurance in Riyadh. the rest of specification same.
but on website its 4.5 hours aka 270 minutes
on combat duty its endurance is 6 hours.
now some of the specifications can be different due to loads or some really different due to reliable system for desert condition.
They presented Skat S350 the advanced version of SuperCam with 4 hour endurance in Riyadh. the rest of specification same.
but on website its 4.5 hours aka 270 minutes
on combat duty its endurance is 6 hours.
now some of the specifications can be different due to loads or some really different due to reliable system for desert condition.
Footage of the use of the Russian TDA-2K machine, intended for setting up smoke screens; we previously talked about the TDA-2M thermal smoke machine. The TDM-2K thermal smoke machine is manufactured by the Tambovpolimermash company and put into service in 1982. TDA-2K is located on the chassis of a KAMAZ-4310 vehicle and is intended for camouflage of various objects with neutral aerosols, as well as for disinfestation of areas and structures with insecticidal aerosols. The operating principle of the machine is based on the evaporation of a safe smoke-forming substance in a stream of hot gases, followed by condensation of the resulting vapors in the atmosphere. The vehicle deploys in 5 minutes and is capable of placing a smoke screen at a distance of at least 1000 meters for 4 to 13 hours on a single charge, doing this while moving at speeds of up to 40 km/h. The working volume of the aerosol-forming substance tank is 4200 liters. The crew of the car is 2 people.
Would be interesting to put that on a land drone with predetermined routes.