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Those displays look similar to the 130 I flew in, I think I have pics back on my home computer.

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love the Su-34.. great range, but also great comfort for the crew that will be in the plane for 5-8 hours at a time.. great for sub hunting i guess, long hours, huge coastline-if you are Russia at least-, .. and some fighting capabilities just in case.. a real bomber/fighter Su-34 is..

 

i read once about a "backfire" missile that Russia designed ..can't find the clip or the articles any more.. the goal was using the "tail" of sukhois as a radar that would pick up the fighters chasing it.. since the fighters chasing you must be really really close to get to a good PK it means the escaping plane has the advantage to kill the attacker--if only you have a missile that will "backfire" .. the radar is already there, and i know the missile was also, maybe they went all "hush-hush" on this one..

 

anyway, the video i saw was a missile fired as the Su-27 was going obviously forward, and missile used a "booster of some sorts on the front to make a short stop, and then release the booster, ignite the engine(that was also on the "front of the missile" and go in the position "six" of the Su-27.. thus making short work of anybody who is trying to lick you from behind..

 

the good thing about this would be obvious, the attacking plane would be going head-on towards the missile while the defending one is escaping the attacker and forcing the attacker to approach every close to him in order to fire his weapon that will always have a diminished range due to the Su-27 running away..

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Is that a new airframe 76MD or a modernised one? Do they still have Navigators sitting in that glasshouse under the nose?

 

That is project "476", or Il-76MD-90A. It is new build, not update of previously made Il-76's.

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It is a retractable periscope.

 

 

So the guy in the back seat gets to see something too? Id imagine this to be crucial when flying from the back seat, thanks for the explanation.

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