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New Features Of the Su-35 ( T-10BM Big Modernisation )
1 - N035 Irbis Radar
2 - No canards
3 - Rear-looking self-defence radar in shorter tail sting
4 - AL-41F1A turbofan engines rated at 147kN
5 - Extended high-lift devices with large flaperon occuping the full trailing edge
6 - L175M Khibiny-M electronic-warfare self-defence system
7 - Reduced-area empennage
8 - Larger Air Intakes
9 - New and lighter systems, including quadruple digital fly-by-wire flight-control system.
10- New man-machine interface with fully-glass cockpit with two large LCD screens and helmet mounted display.
The OKB Sukhoi design bureau and the KnAAPO factory are now focusing their attention on a project with the internal designation T-10BM ( Big Modernisation ) and the official designation Su-35 , The one and the only presentation so far of this new edition of the Su-35 was a model that was put on display in December 2003 in Dubai.
The Designation Su-35 has a long history , In 1992 , Sukhoi assigned the designation Su-35 to the export version of the Su-27M ( T-10M) fighter fitted with canards and the N011 radar. Series production of the Su-27M started in Komsomolsk during the last days of the Soviet Union. Five of the 15 manufactured fighters ( including the prototypes ) are presently in service with the 237th Regiment at Kubinka Air Base near Moscow ; several others are used as experimental aircraft. The Su-35 was offered without sucess to several countries including South Korea,UAE and Malaysia and is presently taking part in competition in Brazil. It should be noted that this Su-35 is a new project and not a Su-27M.
The demand for Su-27/Su-30 fighters as they are manufactured currently bu KnAAPO has been nearly fulfilled and it is still a long way to Russias new-generation fighter the PAK-FA. On 26 April 2002 , a government committe chose Sukhoi's T-50 offer in the contest for the 5th gen fighter PAK-FA fighter , On 10 December 2004 Sukhoi submitted the T-50 pilot project for approval by the airforce.
Statements made then say that the prototype T-50 will fly near the end of 2007 and its series production will commence in Komsomolsk around 2012-15.
The Su-35 ( T-10BM) should fill the interim period. Therefore 2007 has been declared by the Sukhoi design bureau as the year when the work on the Su-35 is to be completed , Another objective of the Su-35 programme is to gradually test and implement solutions under development for the T-50. The "transitional" fighter Su-35 is being realised by the same co-operating parties that take part in the T-50 programme. The absence of subsystems and components imported from beyond Russia in the Su-35 project is regarded as being a great advantage for the Russian Air Force as well as for some foreign customers , such as China.
The Russian aerospace community takes delight in subdividing fighter aircraft aircraft into generations . According to their Classification , the Su-27 is a fourth-generation fighter , the Su-30 MKI/MKK belong to the 4+ (four plus ) generation , The new Su-35 (T-10BM) will belong to generation 4++ and the future PAK FA (T-50) will be a fifth generation fighter. There is also a 5- ( five minus ) generation which includes the early series of the PAK-FA ( T-50 airframe with temporary equipment from the Su-35 )
Fonte: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=52019
Austin
Janes IDR
March 2005
Piotr Butowski
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