Yes it helps the Typhoon
With map sizes even Su-35 is going to struggle to accelerate to the speeds the Rafale and a none nerfed Typhoon will hit.
The Su-35 is still a gen 4 legacy design. Yes it is lighter and has more power and superior avionics but in raw kinematics it falls behind
Doesn’t look to be that way
I thought it was, with the use of lighter/composites matrials.
Having that massive IRBIS Radar must weigh it down!
How to reduce senstivity?
Su35 is reinforced and has more fuel
The iribis is actually lighter than the bars
the bars weighs 650kg and the irbis 480kg
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To put it into car terms for someone who doesn’t understand jet engines, it is the equivalent of variable valve timing and lift duration in a piston engine.
I.e. it can move the power band or optimize thrust and fuel efficiency by adjusting the bypass ratio (amount of air going around the core). That air will slow down exhaust velocity unless the afterburner is used, so less bypass is more optimal for supercruise for example.
Still, you want some amount of bypass to help cool the core components in high thrust situations like supercruise as that can be stressful on the engine.
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It’s much heavier, around 3000 kg heavier than the base su27s. Only the Chinese flankers are lighter than their Russian counter parts while having similar levels of thrust, so Chinese flankers would’ve been better for bvr if it wasn’t for the comical r-37m that the su-35s has.
How is it not? It looks essentially the same to the base su-27s, looks even less advanced than the su-27m form the 90s. I’m pretty sure they removed canards just to reduce weight and increase top speed.
the IRBIS-E will be alot better for WT especially than whatever china will get
Dude can’t stop glazing Typhoon and keeps talking down every other jet, including superior Rafale lmao.
Yup. That’s why I said would’ve, the missile and the irbis radar will be better than whatever aesa BS radar the Chinese get. Just having that gimbal limit is a humongous advantage
who needs arh missiles if you can shoot a r-27er and then guide it in while notching
that shit is going to be peak af
It is a legacy design, like an F-15EX and performance figures exlcuding the fanciful Mach 2.2 (not combat loaded)
It is inferior to Typhoon.
The Typhoon is slower than the Su-35 afaik and beats it only marginally in supercruise speed according to certain documentation… but that is with conformal weapon mounts. Regardless, the term “Gen 4+” has nothing to do with flight performance. “4+” refers to the avionics, electronic warfare, and other features. To that extent, the Su-35 is vastly superior to the Eurofighter we have in-game. In fact, you could say the Su-35 is almost tailored to counter the Eurofighter with all of the electronic sensors and features it has.
Like the F-15EX, it is a gen4+ airframe. The Eurofighter is heavily dated by now and with a mech scan is at a considerable disadvantage. These airframes do not have parity and any enhancement in kinematics that the Typhoon has is essentially useless against a foe who has been tailor built to fight him.
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How so, did i missed something, i’m pretty sure India banned it from competing because it did not, and especially for it’s sensor fusion which was nowhere close compared to other planes.
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Gen 4+ is really a package one of the requirements is supercruise which Typhoon does well.
Typhoons mech scan Radar has fallen behind with the proliferation of AESA systems. Later Tranches aim to rectify that with an AESA system being tested and offered to export customers.
If map sizes in game stay the same when F-15EX or Su-35 are added at the point of BVR weapons release they will still be disadvantaged compared to Typhoon.
Not to say Su-35 and F-15EX are not incredible platforms