Unfortunately i notice that fulcrum doesn’t have many fans, if only the soviets didn’t send monkey models to die in iraq…
Right now it’s the perfect timeframe for the mig-29m, it would be able to face these delta canards in wvr and would be pretty decent at bvr, they could even revise the old fulcrum and improve them a bit, maybe touch the instructor a lil bit.
imho it’s pretty ugly lol, the canopy is too high and big. The two I listed above are much better looking imho. Still anyone has their taste, what I’m worried about is that, since I sincerely hope we won’t skip straight to 30SM2, I think 30SM1 might be a downgrade overall compared to the Su-27SM flight performance wise. Weight is a lot higher and engines are pretty much comparable.
I wouldn’t worry about the Radar Gaijin haven’t cracked a PESA/AESA Radars yet.
Su-30SM double seater isn’t it does it carry more missiles or is it just a better radar and better ground strike options?
Reports are underway to fix the Rafale, AESA is currently in-game on two aircraft and PESA on the Su-34.
People will bomb Budapest if they add a broken version of irbis e xD
12 missiles, but much better radar than the N001VEP.
that its a lot of copium… Playing the SM right now for the event and its pure pain. Radar still trash it don’t lock for whatever reason. R77 feel even worst ATM. Literally countless of time today i have hard radar lock and somehow the R77 seeker just won’t lock and don’t even talk that now it can`t even kill people inside the 9km. Or R73… Some people where saying that they fixed the Thrust vectoring problem. But for me its the same.
I grinded the rafale. While i did have some problem with the Suppose AESA radar. That thing its like heaven and while Mica aren’t Aim120 i still get kill at range with them.
It would be competitive and be better than the 27SM since at high speed it has around the same thrust to weight as the eurofighter and a good radar, but it’s pretty limited compared to the EFT itself. It has much less countermeasures, thrust to weight is markedly lower at lower speeds and while great the airframe itself is just not comparable to the EFT.
Right patch for it to be meta was the J-10 one.
I wish i could enjoy early 4th gen era a bit more man, they are rushing stuff too fast, even the f18 got out of the party.
Yeah F-15E addition was a slam dunk on the F-18.
Typhoon Radar was the issue not the Rafale, the Typhoon for Britain is using a 1980s Radar the Radar on the Tornado and F-4F KWS are superior to the most advanced Mech scanned array.
Radar scan patterns and speed is an issue across the board, instead of returning to line one they rescan the bottom line this means you can have 4-8 seconds between refreshing on wide scan.
Rafale seems amazing and is receiving hourly buffs…flight model, drag, Radar and more missiles
MICAS are great for close to medium range they are hard to defeat and pull crazy hard
Also Su-30SM potentially can get Damocles
That too, but I still doubt Gaiijn will do it.
It affects much more radars with slower scan speed thought. From what I’ve understood so far Captor-M has a rather large area scanned with each scan, but since scans are so far in between it ends up being worse than quicker scanning radars.
Wait til Top Gun 3 release.
They also don’t allow you to select or prioritise scan areas. CAPTUR Can select an area to scan and then jump to another are and jump back using a threat data stored.
i guess they are comparing more with rafale/euro fighter now more than f15e/gripen and su27m/mig29m werent really mass produced so it would be like adding a prototype aircraft or a limited produced aircraft like the su-33.
it should get 2 more (r77s/r73s) missiles than su27sm , if they give it double pylons like the sm.
maybe tvc engines will save it in wvr against EFT/rafale.
30SM offers multirole/CAS capabilities that are not seen in Su-35, plus it offers China a competitive top tier CAS in form of 30MKK, so I can see why people want it more than any other Flanker variants. Plus 30SM has both canards and thrust vectoring.
Still I think Russia would probably needed the MiG-29K most, since it is long overdue a F-16C competitor and is the only single seat MIG-29M variant they operated