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The Konkordski that crashed at the Paris airshow in the video above isn't the same aircraft as the one in the photos on the previous page. The photos show the prototype, with compound curves on the leading edge of the wing from when the Soviets were still trying to copy Concorde outright, but it wasn't stable across the speed range.
The design that crashed in Paris has cranked delta wings with straight edges and canard foreplanes, after they decided to give up trying to copy Concorde and went with a slightly more 'agricultural' solution.