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[Pilotasso]

if that were the reasons.. a downward trajectory would be favourable..not following the "logic" here

 

me neither...the upward missile catapulting actualy makes the missile go through the aircraft.

[Alfa]

Well....they use not the Kh-41 but the Kh-31A and the Kh-35 on te Tu-142.

 

The(much smaller) Kh-31A and Kh-35 are also in the picture for new multirole- or upgraded variants of the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters.

 

But there is a new missile in test/production phase....the brahmos for India ( i think when i see the advertisement it is a co-production between Russia and India). When i look at the advertisement i see that it is beeing launched from a Su-30....

 

Yes that's correct - the "BrahMos" is a joint-venture project between Russia and India for a further development of the Russian P-800 "Yakhont" SSM.

 

The Yakhont is to be considered a smaller version of the P-700 "Granit" and was developed as an alternative to the P-270(3M80E) "Moskit" with which it shares overall dimensions and weight.

 

P-700(3M45) "Granit":

 

P-800(3M55) "Yakhont":

 

The Yakhont has been developed in an air-launched version, which has a much reduced launch weight(~2 tons versus 3,9 tons) and reduced range(~200 km versus ~300 km) as compered with its SSM version.

 

Air-launched variant of Yakhont:

 

Cheers,

- JJ.

[GGTharos]

me neither...the upward missile catapulting actualy makes the missile go through the aircraft.

 

I was talking about a downwards trajectory. Sorry, misread your question.

[Pilotasso]

Any clue why is catapulting inverted?

[dynamocl]

Where does the pilot sit in the P700?

[mikoyan]

Now that you mention it, some missiles catapult themselves upwards from ressed hardpoints. The AIM-120 also does it. Why is this so?

long time a go engineers were testing an f-14 launching an AIM-7 while doing degative gs :chair: and aprently it went wrong

[GGTharos]

Yep, the ejection charge wasn't enough and the missile struck the aircraft, IIRC.

[Shaman]

Yep, the ejection charge wasn't enough and the missile struck the aircraft, IIRC.

and the result was quite expensive to cover ;)

 

Here's full story: http://www.ejectionsite.com/F-14%20SHOOTDOWN.pdf

[ALDEGA]

Not even one 6DOF cockpit for any of the a/c?

air·craft [Pronunciation Key (ârkrft)]

n. pl. aircraft

A machine or device, such as an airplane, helicopter (Ka-50), glider, or dirigible, that is capable of atmospheric flight.

 

Look, it's not just a matter of switching it on. You have to model and texture a complete 3D cockpit from scratch even before you start coding that in.

3D model and textures are (probably) the least work. Making the 3D pit "work" ....

 

If it was so easy to do all of this, we'd have Black Shark already ;)

No, we wouldn't ;)

[Guest Cali]

Not even one 6DOF cockpit for any of the a/c?

 

Come ED is there any way to make 6DOF for all A/C.

[ARM505]

Come ED is there any way to make 6DOF for all A/C.

 

Yes, of course, but they'll need to sell one of those 25 mil aircraft you work on and take the cash! ;)

[Jay]

Where does the pilot sit in the P700?

 

He doesn't sit in it, he lies in it ;)

[Jay]

Of course its not test-fired, otherwise the result would look like this....

 

me: "WTF?!"

 

me: "MY EYES!!"

 

me: "looks like a nuke"

 

:P

 

These are pretty nice shots mate - I thought that the Kh-41 were supersonic missile - or you were flying supersonic? How fast? It must have been quite hard to get these.

Cheers

J

[Crusty]

Blimey..a flying penis

 

[Force_Feedback]

That's a sexy launch pylon (the missile looks ugly, but the pylon looks kinda alien)