M346/Yak-130

[GTX_Admin]

A couple of inspiring shots to start off:




Now about that 1/48 kit...

[Doom!]

 

[GTX_Admin]

 :)

[elmayerle]

M-346 in USAF markings as T-38 replacement.  Perhaps a hooked one to supplement the T-45s?

[The Big Gimper]

I have the AModel version with the large winglets. Thinking of the Canadian Coast Guard.

Similar to this CS2F:

[Daryl J.]

I'm waiting for a well tooled 1:48 one of these.   As to which service I'd put it in....well ....

[GTX_Admin]

I hear you.

[dy031101]

There was an article mentioning that ROC/Taiwan is planning to licence-produce M346 as AT-5 and a replacement for the AT-3 trainer.

[GaryF]

So I got the Kinetic M346 and it looks to be very nice. However the upper fuselage/wings part has badly warped wings. One curls up and the other down. And the wings are also twisted. Kinetic replaced the part but it had warped wings again. And again.  I got another kit and it had the same issue. So I took the worst of the bunch and cut the wings off at the fuselage root and the remaining upper fuselage component seems ok and fits the lower fuselage well.
So, anyone got any ideas for a new wing form? 

[elmayerle]

Clone one from a Yak-130 kit?

[upnorth]

I've heard the Freece Tricolori are supposed to convert over to it in the next few years. I look forward to seeing it in their colours.

[dy031101]

There was an article mentioning that ROC/Taiwan is planning to licence-produce M346 as AT-5 and a replacement for the AT-3 trainer.

'Forgot this topic, but as of 2017 the AT-5 will be a design based on the F-CK-1.  So ROCAF M346 is now officially a what-if.

[GTX_Admin]

I've heard the Freece Tricolori are supposed to convert over to it in the next few years. I look forward to seeing it in their colours.

Maybe like this:

[GTX_Admin]

There was an article mentioning that ROC/Taiwan is planning to licence-produce M346 as AT-5 and a replacement for the AT-3 trainer.

'Forgot this topic, but as of 2017 the AT-5 will be a design based on the F-CK-1.  So ROCAF M346 is now officially a what-if.

Good pick up.  That would look cool especially if done in something like this scheme as shown on the AT-5:

[GTX_Admin]

I see this and think Ferrari scheme:

[GTX_Admin]

M346 in this scheme:

[elmayerle]

Taiwan works with ALenia/Leonardo to incorporate the Chunk-Kuos F125 engines in a modified M346 as an answer to the PRC's Hongdu JL-10 which derives from the Yak-130.
 I still like the idea of a M346N to replace the T-45 with the USN.  You would likely need the same changes made as from the Hawk T.1 to the T-45A (beefed up sttructure and modified nose gear for catapult or EMALS launching.  Imagine one in Blue Angels markings.

[elmayerle]

Oh, and BTW, does anyone do a conversion from Yak-130 to the afterburning variant of the Hongdu JL-10?

[GTX_Admin]

 I still like the idea of a M346N to replace the T-45 with the USN.  You would likely need the same changes made as from the Hawk T.1 to the T-45A (beefed up sttructure and modified nose gear for catapult or EMALS launching.

Do you?  I understood that the USN Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) didn't require actual carrier landings/takeoffs due to the Magic Carpet system removing the need.

[GTX_Admin]

Oh, and BTW, does anyone do a conversion from Yak-130 to the afterburning variant of the Hongdu JL-10?

Not that I am aware of unless someone does some 3D printed parts.

[elmayerle]

I can see some possibilities for scratchbuilding hee.  I've got a copy of a JL-10 brochure coming and I hope that will help identify differences.  Be amusing to put a JL-10 next to a ROC M346 with the F124's replace by F125's.

[elmayerle]

Okay, I now have both M346 and JL-10/L-15 brochures.  Too bad I can't add a Yak-130 brochure to the collection.

I still want to do a carrier-capable M346N as a what-if, might "borrow" the nose gear from a T-45.