BVVD said that since export variants of Su-30 have TGPs like MKM - Damocles, MKI - Litening, they decided they should give the Russian version an optical pod aswell and they went with T/220 since they know that it was used on other jets like MiG-29M, MiG-35 and Su-35S.
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I think it’d be best if they kept Su-30SM2 for when they drop F/A-18E imo.
Personally would have went with sapsan but imma take it.
What aircraft is this on?
Su-30SM
SAPSAN is not a copy of DAMOCLES, they are two separate projects.
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Info on the sapsan is much harder to find
would have thought some of the russian language researchers would be able to dig something up. I do get your point tho.
Sapsan is a mythical creature to researchers, I’ve even tried myself, it’s a boss battle that can’t be beat.
T/220 and Damocles are the only options.
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Because its not real, the producers were sued for not making a functional product. (it was hollow)
*Edit, SAPSAN-E isn’t real, SAPSAN is (ignore this message)
Mythical only to inattentive researchers. More than half a year ago I found all the official documents on its creation.
The prototypes have been made.
That’s a lie. Sapsan was created. The export version was not
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Man… why does this shit gotta be so DAMN confusing 😭
Fixed my message above, sorry for the mistake.
I already knew about this, but the question is do you have detailed enough information for such a pod to be implemented?
yes
Before when I brought it up nobody knew what resolution it ran in
Something really minor but I noticed the targeting pod is not animated and also fixed in an upside-down position that you realistically wouldn’t be able to look down
Here’s a video of the TGP in real life
Here it is ingame on dev server (it basically stays in this fixed position no matter what):
All TGPs are not animated
Oddly enough, the Chinese K/ADC03A TGP is actually animated (albeit really broken)