Sukhoi Su-27/30/33/35/37 Flanker series & Su-34 Fullback - History, Design, Performance & Dissection (Part 1)

Common sense, the Su-30 does it with thrust vectoring and the Su-34 can’t do Cobra at all

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Which aid… How? 600kg of total thrust increase is effectively nothing when that’s offset by a few hundred gallons of fuel.

Can you state any difference it would have on gameplay?

All gen 4 fighters in the game have overrated thrust with the exception of the MiG-29, which has underrated thrust.

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The Su-30M doesn’t have thrust vectoring?

“they didn’t do it at maks so it’s incapable of doing it at all”

I’m talking air RB…

And yes it is a stretch, when you compare what ussr has at top tier, it’s far from being the best, yet still somewhat competitive

Su-30MKK,M2,MKV,MK2,K,KN
have no thrust vector

Thrust-vectoring Su-30s are the Su-30SM, MKI, MKA, and MKM.

What advantage will Su-33 have compared to Su-27SM?

Not much. Pulls harder thanks to canards and carrier based (which is basically a SIM thing anyway)

Lower stall speed, because of carrier adaptation its wing area has increased, and canards are there to help low speed stability. In War Thunder look at the Su-34 for reference, I bet Gaijin will make it pull insane maneuvers.

In pretty much every other way it is inferior to the Su-27SM. It has a worse radar, cannot fire R-77, is heavier and has lower thrust-to-weight ratio, and worse RWR.

And only has 48 countermeasures.

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It has L-150 too

Yeah, I don’t expect it to be higher than 13.0 in BR.

That seems unlikely

I’m not well-versed on Russian Flankers, but I think that is a later modernization. It depends on if Gaijin will be generous enough to give it L-150.

It does not has SPO-15 antennas on intakes, but has L-150 antennas on slats.

From the outside, looks more like no RWR at all. And I can’t find a picture of an Su-33 cockpit with even a display for one.

Damn. It will be useless.

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It definitely doesn’t look like SPO-15 indicator