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14-05-2006, 03:41
Specifications:
Official Designation: STFU-144
Type: Advanced Air Superiority Fighter
Length: 19 m (63 ft)
Wingspan: 15 m (50 ft)
Height: 4.5 m (15ft)
Propulsion: 2× Lyulka AL-41F afterburning turbofans, 176 kN (39,680 lb) each
Empty Weight: 15,000 kg (33,000 lb)
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 35,000 kg (77,000)
Normal Payload: 6,000-12,000 kg
Thrust-to-Weight Ratio: 1.18/1
Combat Range: 2,400 km (1,500 mi)
Operational Ceiling/Altitude: 18,000 m (59,050 ft)
Maximum Speed: Mach 2.6 (2,750 km/h, 1,720 mph)
Construction Price: $30 million
Purchasing Price: Not for sale
Other:
The STFU is a delta-winged, twin-tailed single seat air superiority/strike fighter with an all-moving forward canard plane. The glass-cockpit-enabled fighter features a pulse Doppler radar with a phased aerial array antenna. The radar system is linked to a fire control system that allows the fighter to engage up to twenty-four separate targets at the same time
Its internal bay is large enough to carry twelve R-172, R-77, or R-33 missiles. One 9A-4071K 30 mm cannons is located on the nose. It is powered by two Lyulka AL-41F afterburning, thrust vectored turbofan jet engines, each generating 175 kN (39,340 lbf) of thrust. It features thrust vectoring, digital fly-by-wire flight control, and two powerful engines.
The STFU has extremely high agility at subsonic speeds enabling the aircraft to alter its angle of attack and its flight path very quickly, and it also retains high maneuverability in supersonic flight.
To reduce RCS it sports a heavy coating of RAM, S-shaped compressor channels, internal weapon storage, and LO airframe geometry..
The cockpit's design has focused on maintaining a high degree of comfort for the pilot and also on the pilot being able to control the aircraft in extremely high g-load manoeuvres. The aircraft is equipped with a new ejection seat and life support system. The variable geometry adaptive ejection seat is inclined at an angle of 60°, which reduces the impact of high g forces on the pilot. The seat allows dogfight manoeuvres with significantly higher g loadings than can normally be tolerated by the pilot.
The pilot uses a side-mounted, low-travel control stick and a tensometric throttle control.
It is a twin-engined aircraft with a cranked delta wing, canards, twin tail fins, jet intakes under the nose, and 3D vectoring nozzles with the ability to supercruise.
Maximum turn rates and the upper and lower limits on air speed for weapon launch are important criteria in terms of combat superiority. The STFU aircraft has very high levels of maneuverability with maintained stability and controllability at all angles of attack.
Maximum turn rates are important in close combat and also at medium and long range, when the mission may involve engaging consecutive targets in different sectors of the airspace. A high turn rate of the STFU allows the pilot to turn the fighter aircraft quickly towards the next target to initiate the weapon launch.
Official Designation: STFU-144
Type: Advanced Air Superiority Fighter
Length: 19 m (63 ft)
Wingspan: 15 m (50 ft)
Height: 4.5 m (15ft)
Propulsion: 2× Lyulka AL-41F afterburning turbofans, 176 kN (39,680 lb) each
Empty Weight: 15,000 kg (33,000 lb)
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 35,000 kg (77,000)
Normal Payload: 6,000-12,000 kg
Thrust-to-Weight Ratio: 1.18/1
Combat Range: 2,400 km (1,500 mi)
Operational Ceiling/Altitude: 18,000 m (59,050 ft)
Maximum Speed: Mach 2.6 (2,750 km/h, 1,720 mph)
Construction Price: $30 million
Purchasing Price: Not for sale
Other:
The STFU is a delta-winged, twin-tailed single seat air superiority/strike fighter with an all-moving forward canard plane. The glass-cockpit-enabled fighter features a pulse Doppler radar with a phased aerial array antenna. The radar system is linked to a fire control system that allows the fighter to engage up to twenty-four separate targets at the same time
Its internal bay is large enough to carry twelve R-172, R-77, or R-33 missiles. One 9A-4071K 30 mm cannons is located on the nose. It is powered by two Lyulka AL-41F afterburning, thrust vectored turbofan jet engines, each generating 175 kN (39,340 lbf) of thrust. It features thrust vectoring, digital fly-by-wire flight control, and two powerful engines.
The STFU has extremely high agility at subsonic speeds enabling the aircraft to alter its angle of attack and its flight path very quickly, and it also retains high maneuverability in supersonic flight.
To reduce RCS it sports a heavy coating of RAM, S-shaped compressor channels, internal weapon storage, and LO airframe geometry..
The cockpit's design has focused on maintaining a high degree of comfort for the pilot and also on the pilot being able to control the aircraft in extremely high g-load manoeuvres. The aircraft is equipped with a new ejection seat and life support system. The variable geometry adaptive ejection seat is inclined at an angle of 60°, which reduces the impact of high g forces on the pilot. The seat allows dogfight manoeuvres with significantly higher g loadings than can normally be tolerated by the pilot.
The pilot uses a side-mounted, low-travel control stick and a tensometric throttle control.
It is a twin-engined aircraft with a cranked delta wing, canards, twin tail fins, jet intakes under the nose, and 3D vectoring nozzles with the ability to supercruise.
Maximum turn rates and the upper and lower limits on air speed for weapon launch are important criteria in terms of combat superiority. The STFU aircraft has very high levels of maneuverability with maintained stability and controllability at all angles of attack.
Maximum turn rates are important in close combat and also at medium and long range, when the mission may involve engaging consecutive targets in different sectors of the airspace. A high turn rate of the STFU allows the pilot to turn the fighter aircraft quickly towards the next target to initiate the weapon launch.