good stuff, looking forward to seeing the first pictures of it so we call make the obvious comparisons.

Can I just request that people refrain from posting drawings and cgi fantasy art to illustrate this thread?

We've seen them all before and they are completely irrelevant, only a genuine photograph will do.

After that we can have great fun seeing how close or how wide of the mark they all were

If the CGI images are close to the real thing it looks comparable to the F22. Ill be interested in seeing what the Ruskees are up to.

Approve.

Looks like the NPO Saturn render that came out I don't know how long ago had it dead on. Can definitely see the influence of the Berkut in the slightly upturned radome. And does anyone else get just a flash of the YF-23 in there?

Been waiting for today for a fair time. Can't wait to see it painted and put through its paces.

Berkut in the slightly upturned radome. And does anyone else get just a flash of the YF-23 in there?

Looks like a mix of the F-35 (nose), Su-27 (nose?), YF-23, & Su-47. Looks pretty cool although would prefer a single piece canopy of the F-22 and F-16. Have official performance figures been released?

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F-22 will not be lonely in future.


now he has a new friend.

Originally posted by C0bzz
Looks pretty cool although would prefer a single piece canopy of the F-22 and F-16.

Serial production machines will have it. Only the prototypes have two pieces.

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1. I presume the large landing gear is for landing on unprepared runways?

2. Are those sideways looking radars to the sides of the engine intakes?

And it finally arrives! (on TV) .

Ура товарищи!

Darkpro you must be overjoyed

Doesn't look like the exhausts are protected/covered by the vertical or horizontal tail fins to reduce the heat signature (as they are on the Raptor). These are not the proposed stead-state engines for the PAK-FA correct?

Update: One of the guys in a blog linked on a post here, thinks that larger 3D TVC engines in fact help reduce the size of the vertical and horizontal tail fins thus reducing signature..



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