Future MiGs

[ReAl PrOeLiTeZ]

MIG-1-2000 look like mix f-22 and typhoon, f-18 E/F and other plane.

is it copy and blend into 1 plane?

but cool look plane thought

why cause it has wings, airtakes and engines. their is so little you can do that makes it completely look different in an airframe. unless a revolutionary design comes out. The F-22 looks like an F-15 which in turn looks simular to Su-27. Most airframe coming out look like one another now.

 

[SkolZkiy]

As some guys said - aerodynamical laws are equal for everybody.
All these projects are dead, MiG now is headed by mikhail Pagosyan who is the head of Sukhoi =)
MiG is developing some project ПАК-ЛФИ PAK-LFI (light frontier fighter, if I'm not mistaken in translation). It was several times officialy said also by Pagosyan and disigners.
Also there is a program of modernization of MiG-31 which is now in progress =)

So there is enough work for MiG - current difficulties would be overcome+)

 

[PUNIT]

The MiG-35 has very interesting designs. In my opinon if Mapo had enough funds it would have surpassed the Eurofighter.

MIG 35 is a great plane . its also the strongest contender in INDIAN MRCA deal.

mig 1.44 was a good conceptual plane but it lost TO Sukhoi PAK FA (T 50).

 

[OPSSG]

MIG 35 is a great plane . its also the strongest contender in INDIAN MRCA deal.

Where is your analysis? I'll be sure to use you for my think tank in future.

It may offer good value for money but what leads you to say that it is the strongest contender? Please provide facts and reputable links to support your statement.

 

[Feanor]

It's almost impossible to qualify statements such as "the strongest contender". It's a strong contender. Lets leave it at that.

 

[Vajt]

Check out some of these renderings from Paralay...


http://www.paralay.com/litl/M-2000-1.jpg

http://www.paralay.com/litl/Vityaz-20001.jpg

http://www.paralay.com/litl/Dorna-2.jpg

http://www.paralay.com/lfi.html

Maybe this is the potential Iranian stealth fighter that I read about in other sites?

-----JT-----

 

[Misguided Fool]

I personally miss the days of MiG turning out amazing designs such as the various sabre equivalent MiGs (korean war era), and their newest additions, the MiG 21 (the most widely exported modern fighter i believe?), the MiG 23 (a very advanced swing wing fighter for its time), the MiG 27, an advanced swing wing bomber, the MiG 29, which in every exercise that the Germans carried out outmanoevred and "shot out of the sky" its western counterparts (and with recent unreliability of "smart" missiles, close in dogfighting seems like a tantalizing possiblity), the MiG 25, one of the fastest aircraft ever build, and its mature development, the MiG 31, a superfast effective interceptor.

What went wrong? They've enjoyed so much export success in the past. I cannot believe that they're at the stage of simply repairing old planes. I mean just recently they sold upgraded MiG 29s to malaysia!

 

[Ananda]

What went wrong? They've enjoyed so much export success in the past. I cannot believe that they're at the stage of simply repairing old planes. I mean just recently they sold upgraded MiG 29s to malaysia!

Economics most likely, Their design is loosing to Sukhois, also the performance of the export also show the Sukhois have better market acceptance compared to the migs. Seems the russians can not afford to have two different main figthers OKB.

It also happen in US though..we already seen one by one all previously famous fighters makers gone or absorb by another company..like corvairs, mc donald douglas..etc..all being absorb by surviving company like boeing, locheed..It's just simply market competition rules..'only the fittest survive'..

 

[Feanor]

Sukhoi won major contracts to India and China, in the 90's. MiG didn't. By the way, all Sukhoi is doing currently is updating old fighters also. I suppose one could argue that the Su-35BM is as different from the Su-27S as the SH is from the regular Hornet. But then we have the MiG-35 which is also significantly different from other Fulcrums. And keep in mind MiG has the first AESA in Russia. The Zhuk-AE. Sukhoi uses PESA for both the Bars and Irbis. That might well be one of the reasons that MiG is part of the PAK-FA project. So on one hand they're not as developmentally dead as they look, on the other hand it's not like anyone in Russian aerospace is doing anything revolutionary at the moment.