Nonsense
And the former pilot is just lying.
Well, they might have a point.
In early 2015, Indian Defence Minister [Manohar Parrikar] stated before Parliament that the AL-31FP had suffered numerous failures, between the end of 2012 and early 2015, a total of 69 Su-30MKI engine-related failures had occurred; common causes were failures due to metal fatigue and low oil pressure.
I probably wouldn’t be overly keen if my big and heavy jet decided to conk out one of it’s engines halfway through some thrust-vectoring shenanigans.
69 failures in three years is rather a lot…
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a common problem in India.
Is oil in India particularly different to how it is in every other part of the world?
Surely the IAF would be having lots of issues with all of it’s airframe types (Jaguars, MiGs, SHARs, Rafales, and the many other types they have on their books).
Could be environmental issues tbh, Sukhoi were made and tested in eastern Europe weather after all
This is not related to the quality of the oil.
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If you are referring to the IAFs famously erm… hazhazard maintenance approach… then I see what you mean.
Indian Air Force having issues with maintenance is quite a notorious problem.
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R-37s are outranged by AIM-174s, but im not sure if the f22 carries them. It does carry the AIM-260 which does also outrange the R-37. And it gets the f22 launch platform so it will have the first shot unlike the su-57 as its rcs is 1m3 and the f22s is .001 m3 (1000x difference) (yes this is leaked classified documents pls dont ban me). In game stealth is hard to implement like we’ve seen with the F-117. Yes the 57 has more payload due to having 2 more internal and 8 external hardpoints, but quality over quantity
Also academic (dis)honesty is quite interesting.
It feels like an alien ecosystem whenever my research has me consult chinese papers. Their standards seem quite different from german/hungarian/japanese/spanish institutions and publishers.
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Not to be that guy but the 260 is unproven, it is a completly new missile design and the US first true purpose built BVRAAM since the AIM-54 (RIM 174 is an SM-6) The fact it is due for entry into service this year and there are no images of it, no test shots and no actual data. Leads me to believe they are not as close to entering service as the USAF and USN would like hence the need to rush the RIM-174 into service for the USN as they do not have a competitor to the PL-15.
R-37M however is in service it is being deployed and we have actual combat data on this system. It currently has the longest recorded A2A missile kill.
You can add even more nonsense. As well as RCS calculations based on photographs
there are no images bc it is still classified and carried out on secure AFB. there have been many test shots already, dozens iirc. there is no actual data becuase it is classified
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Those are not leaked documents, just propaganda numbers from LM for the F22, and unreliable simulations done on Ansys HFSS (a software primarily made for antennas and small electronics) using crude 3d models and a bunch of either wrong (metal skin, metal canopy) or unknown parameters for the SU57/J20/F35/Rafale RCS considerations. Oh yeah, and a very suspicious patent containg an average RCS (why would secret RCS information be on a patent? Yeah, makes no sense).
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By whom and how is this confirmed?
I wonder how they’ll handle the DIRCM on the Felon, probably just like the Ka-52s I’d assume?
And so could an X-29 :P
S500 isn’t for AA duty. It’s primarily a missile defense system like THAAD.
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The S-500 is produced in two versions for air defense and missile defense…
Also, individual systems of the S-500 complex are integrated into the S-400 as ready-made solutions to improve the characteristics of the S-400…