Please do, seriously a none biased neutral source for losses would love to see it. Show me 750k dead and i’m going to laugh in your face.
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Oh. That a lot of true on that. I read a lot of that yesterday on this video, i found. Irbis-E screen - flight tests against multiple targets.
This is suppose to be a Test of the Irbis-E radar. But Just read what @aviator77migsukhoi34 has to said on the first comment. That test wasn’t about Irbis-E but the Export Variant that China get with their Su-35. The guy talk a lot of How good the Irbis-E radar its and how much better its compare to western radar even against Western AESA. IMO he was a little Biases on the Topic of Azimuth. In Azimuth only the Captor E its comparable. He also talk about test that an institute on Russia has done on western Stealth. At what Range Irbis-E can detect an F-22. An how on Middle East the Irbis-E on Su-35 was able to detect and track an F-22.
Lets remember to stay on topic with this thread going forward.
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Just was touring a static display at Langley for a f22.
WARNING- I DO NOT KNOW IF ANY OF THIS IS CLASSIFIED, THE CREW WAS SAYING ALL OF THIS TO CIVILIANS.
This is what I remember
“The f22 has 3 flight control systems, for instance is I yank the stick back it will decide to use the elevators to go back or thrust vectoring”
“The f22 is the only aircraft to have a top down display showing enemy’s and friendly on a map, by using (its) Radar and rwr and friendly radar and rwr”
(Above was pilot below is crew)
“We can load her up with 6 AMRAAMs and 2 sidewinders all internally at once! 4 more AMRAAMs on external pylons!”
The following were on display:
Aim-120-(7?)
Aim-9x
Gbu 39 jdam
Gbu (32?) glide bomb
F22
This is what I remember that I don’t think is classified, but isn’t really said. The rest might be classified let me check.
Honestly imo yes the su57 is worse than the f22.
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GBU-39 is a small diameter glide bomb. it might have been a GBU-53 (GBU-39 replacement)
was probably a GBU-38 JDAM as the GBU-39 is a small glide bomb like I said above
I heard that apparently (think someone around here said it) the F-22’s 2D TVC nozzles activate exclusively for stall recovery and post-stall manoevers.
The Su-57 has new engine nozzles now, but I can’t check rn if they are full 3D TVC or pseudo-3D TVC like the older TVC Sukhoi fighters.
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Arenr nozzles on F-22 are automatic? There was some sort of discussion/brief/debrief about redflag with Su-30MKI and it’s TVC, also bringing F-22 to compare
I would wager that the TVC nozzles for the F-22 are at least integrated into the FBW system to the extent that the pilot doesn’t need to think about using them or not using them. With Russian philosophy on FBW, the integration of their TVC system may be more manual.
This is quite lengthy but the pilot goes into some pretty cool details with the F-22.
The control system will maintain the stick input levels. If you put the aircraft into a 6G turn the stick will maintain that position allowing the pilot to focus.
The system is a voting system you ask the aircraft what you want and the aircraft decides if it’s safe to give it to you.
The F-22 is very much the ethos of being easy to fly and to allow the pilot to concentrate on the mission.
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Yeah, my fault.
There are 2 modes manual and standby
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An ex USN guy working with the Malaysian Su-30 pilots. Stated they hardly ever use the TVC, coming from Hornets they worry the jet will lose energy and just fall out of the sky
Not surprising given how big/heavy a Sukhoi is. You’d probably want to keep as fast and dynamic as possible without bleeding off speed/energy doing any unnecessary aerobatics.
The reason the Falklands Sea Harrier pilots didn’t use ViFFing to the fullest extent was that it would possibly let you get a momentary snapshot but leave you low and slow for anyone and everything else to gun you out of the sky. The SHAR being positively dinky and lightweight by comparison…
The above according to Mr Sea Harrier - Sharkey Ward (RIP)
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…
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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