It got a little buff during storm warning. And hornet sting fixed radars across the board
Why would the Su-30sm’s induced drag be lower?
Bad
Canard provide profile drag, but not inductive
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Canards
Provided that the aircraft masses are equal
it looks like the su30sm has been “nerfed” with this latest dev server update… it seems heavier and with the limiter off it can’t do tvc things as fast as before D: (that’s what people are saying)
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Yeah you can kinda tell the difference, feels more sluggish and, as you said, slower in pulling those TVC maneuvers.
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and they still won’t give it AL-41, they never will because any meaningful discussion of Russian jets get silenced by shouts of russian bias
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new empty weight is 18,830kg btw. That’s 430kg more than before
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I have no idea where they got this from, when I tried to find information about the empty weight of the su30sm, at first I found a few places saying 17,700kg, then I saw a lot more sites saying 18,400kg, now gaijin put 18,830kg and that’s new to me
they also reduced fuel amount from 9600kg → 9400kg. Not that it really matters, because you really shouldn’t take full fuel anyways
Su-30SM engines’s afterburner thrust is 11040 kgf while su-33 is 12080, i think that explains the difference in the performance, although the weight is still kinda controversial
are yefim gordon and hugh harkins reliable secondary sources?
The new TWR with 50% fuel and 15% loss now is 0.902
Hilarious
seem like gaijin really hate soviet tech, they nerf the su30sm before the 3d model got fix
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To be fair it (nerfing) is easier than fixing model issues. All you need to do is to tweak few numbers instead of paying whoever they contracting for 3D models and waiting until its done
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To be honest, i don’t think there’s something wrong with it… The lack of good engine is what makes it sluggish, but what makes it a good fighter is its bvr performance. Maneuverability issues will be fixed with the SM2 which gets improved engines.
Pretty much the mig29smt of Sukhoi family, although not as bad.
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yeah hope it’s gonna be ok on live server
Still overshadowed by F-15E and EF2000 tbh. But yeah, at least now EASTFOR (Russia and China) got somewhat decent BVR slingers in the form of Su-30SM and J-11B (if it radar is the same as J-10A (which it should, although bigger) it would be quite good at BVR thanks to PL-12 performance)