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Kryptid — Stealthy Sukhoi
Published: 2009-07-18 12:01:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 3189; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 185
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This is a conjectural rendition of the Sukhoi T-50 (PAK FA) I made up. It probably bares little resemblance to the real thing.For those of you who don't know, Russia is developing a new fighter designed to be at a similar technology level to the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II. The program is called "PAK FA", and the aircraft (being developed by Sukhoi) is designated the T-50. It is supposed to be stealthy and have the ability to supercruise. It will probably have thrust-vectoring nozzles and a synthetic aperture radar as well.
Last I heard, the prototype(s) should fly by August of this year.
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Currently making J-20 sprites... it keeps looking a bit similar to this one O_O
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I suppose it's a matter of "similar requirements result in similar configurations". Stealthy air superiority fighters tend to have at least some resemblance to each other for this reason.
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I know this was made in 2009 but....
besides the Su-47 back, I swear, this looks A LOT like the J-20.
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To some extent, yes. It's not to be unexpected, though. There are only so many good solutions for a stealth fighter design, so it only makes sense that some coincidences would occur.
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Yeah I understand dude, considering you made this 2 years ago...
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If it wasn't for the Su-47 style nozzles, I would have mistaken that for the X-02 Wyvern from Ace Combat 0
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Nice. I see you went for the canard setup, which seems rare nowadays in PAK FA 'concepts.' Cool camo scheme, definitely Russian-looking. I like the little ECM/radar domes at the tail.
Critiques: The canards connect to the fuselage at an angle, seems odd from an aerodynamic perspective. Also, the engines seem small for it's size, especially a fighter.
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The reason I chose the canard design is because I've heard the PAK FA referred to as having "big ears". That sounds like a reference to canards to me. I'm not sure where the "big ears" rumor came from, though. Also, the Su-47 had canards.
The radomes on the tail were Su-47 inspired, too.
The canards on the X-36 also connect to the fuselage at an angle. Look at a schematic of it. I figured that it must be okay to do that, then.
As far as the engines go, yeah, I guess they do look a little small. I used an F-22 top view schematic for reference, and it's nozzles didn't seem to even be as wide as the nozzles on this design. I might size up the engines anyway.
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Hm, I guess you're right on the canards, although it still seems funny they are on a corner like that. The F-22 I think might be tricky to get a real sense of the engine size from the top given the unusual geometry of the vectoring nozzles.
It will be interesting to see what it actually looks like given all the different artist impressions out there.
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