To answer your question, the Su-27SM is incapable of using the dual pylon. There is not clearance in between the engines for it to fit. The Su-35 has a slightly different airframe which allows it.
As for the Su-30SM, I don’t know if it is the same case, but so far at least, it has not been seen with them.
it was less than a month
Typhoon and Rafale were added less than a month after f15e
Prior to that the F-15C with 120s was the best jet.
The E just took it to another level.
yes and no, the Japanese f15c was the best jet, as it is both more maneuverable and gets better missiles than the other 2
but also that was specifically talking about f15e which was meta for less than a month
It merged together only one jet could as high and as fast and that was the F-15C which doninated with 8 120s then Gaijin added the E
So the F-15 was dominant for months
The E model just ensured that.
I haven’t found a single source saying that Su-35S has bigger distance between engines, in fact i only found that Sukhoi had to redesign gondolas because AL-41F-1S is bigger that AL-31F-1, so Su-35S should have even smaller distance between engines than Su-27.
The relevant post is in the Su-27 family discussion thread. I’m not going through 2 separate topics and +10,000 posts to find it.
The margin is literally like centimeters too small to fit the double rack.
it would be nice to have gaijin model the drag resulting performance at transonic, subsonic vs supersonic for all missiles, R77/R77-1 would probably benefit the most from this but all missiles would benefit from this probably. it would probably put the R77 not to far back from the AIM-120A/B in BVR. Also could make gaijin release the AIM-120C5 in an un-nerfed state with it being still being slightly better than the R77-1 in BVR
Also gaijin could start removing the artifical nerfs from late fox3 missiles in game like mica range etc
look at the design of r77 they should have high drag
Drag of grid fins only significantly higher at transsonic speed. Grid fins are made of grid, not solid blocks of steel like airbrakes. C’mon guys it’s not that hard to see, even at the photos above you already can see that grid fins consist of extremely thin metal pieces.
grid fins have significantly higher parasite drag at all speeds https://www.icas.org/icas_archive/ICAS2010/PAPERS/261.PDF
I think the Russians also understand if you want long ranges necessary for a BVRAAM you need to not use grid fins. The R-77M/K-77ME are all seen to have a solid tail assembly like an AMRAAM
Unfortunately no where in that paper that was said. AoA vs drag is something completely different since same with Delta wings, that would be different when flying straight. Also the conclusion is in fact that it is superior at higher speeds.
Quote:
The research concluded that the grid fins
performed better at high Mach numbers and
high angles of attack.
R-77M uses solid tail assembly to reduce space for internal weapons bay of Su-57. Folding mechanism for grid fins was found to be not as reliable as you would want, at least from info that i could find. And KS-172 aka AAM-L still has grid fins on a booster stage despite being a long range weapon design.
Actually, grid fins have greater control effectiveness than planar fins.
less than it is now but yes more drag. It does make it more manoeuvrable but btw that isn’t the concern of mid range missiles.
R-77 was designed as close-mid range weapon, because USSR generally had a big emphasis on close range combat in it’s air doctrine.
R-37M doesn’t use grid fins, R-74M doesn’t use grid fins this was an oddity to try and get close range and medium range performance.
Yes modifying missile to fit weapon bays is common. The R-77ME with the ramjet also has fixed fins.
