{"id":189785,"date":"2010-02-14T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/14\/in-french-found-on-a-russian-bbs\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:51:00","slug":"in-french-found-on-a-russian-bbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/14\/in-french-found-on-a-russian-bbs\/","title":{"rendered":"In French, found on a Russian BBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img24.imageshack.us\/img24\/3442\/t5014181761.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img24.imageshack.us\/img24\/3442\/t5014181761.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In French, and posted on a Russian BBS<br \/>I would not call this definitive<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericpalmer.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/09\/t-50-pak-fa-schematic\/\">Eric Palmer found the following 3-view of the Pak-FA with descriptions<\/a>, in French, on a Russian message board.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it shows a number of features, though the provenance is totally unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Items of interest are the IRST in front of the nose(2), wing mounted radar arrays (10), in flight refueling provisions (8), external stores provisions (16), a missile warning system (4), and (most notably) a vertically inclined &#8220;S&#8221; duct for the engines.<\/p>\n<p>It does appear to match the general configuration of what was seen in the flight video though.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t thought about a vertical offset in the inlets to hide the engine face, but from this 3-view, it does appear to be there, so the engine does appear to be shielded, at least partially, though I would still bet on a radar blocking grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size In French, and posted on a Russian BBSI would not call this definitive Eric Palmer found the following 3-view of the Pak-FA with descriptions, in French, on a Russian message board. Well, it shows a number of features, though the provenance is totally unclear. Items of interest are the IRST in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1033,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-russia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}