To: sukhoi-30mki
One of the only drawbacks to this aircraft is the smaller load of weapons it can carry since everything is held in internal bays. There are no external hardpoints.
3 posted on
09/03/2006 8:00:32 AM PDT by
stm
(Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
To: stm
I've read that they can be fitted with less stealthy weapons pods for the stand off type weapons. The concept as I understood it was to get within rage, fire the long range weapons, dump the pods and disappear.
5 posted on
09/03/2006 8:06:31 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: stm
Huh???The Raptor can be readily fitted with 4 external hardpoints for tanks or weaponry,though that would affect it's stealth & agility adversely.8 internal hardpoints,combined with it's range is more than sufficient for it.
To: stm
I love it when these aircraft articles are so well illustrated. Thank yoou.
19 posted on
09/03/2006 9:10:42 AM PDT by
RoadTest
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