Russia and the West are the same in engine life
they are not anymore, that was certainly true during the soviet times and the 90’s to early 2k’s but they caught up, the Al-31FN series 5 has 5/6k hours mtbo iirc and produces as much thrust as the AL-41F1S of the Su-35S
Well tbf what we know about Chinese engines stopped when a Xi came to power.
^^ true
And tbh the engine capabilities of China changes every few uears. If u think about it, J8F to J20 took less than a decade. This might not be the case for engine but just that this stuff changes so quickly.
Damn, so 2 on wings, 2 between engines, and 2 on intakes (possibly)
is the R-37M a phoenix/fakour type missile stupid fast and long burn time but cant pull Gs for shit?
yes it is
it is said to reach mach 5 and has a max range of 400km
IRL it can shoot down fighters. But to be fair, in WT the planes have a maximum overload of 10-16G
It has ok Gs just doesn’t hit most of the time. With this type of range, u are given like minutes to dodge, unless it is an EWC or AEWC aircraft you will easily get away, just that it forces u off the mission.
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That’s their account. The hit rate is ultra low, but since quite a lot are fired quite a lot of jets were shot down. Most of the time it just forces defensive manoeuvres which stops u from getting things done.
sure but that were ultra long range shots (100km+) we wont see that in wt, bc the maps are to small
Minimum of 24 gs
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Is that launched from a MiG 31 or a Su-35 genuinely interested?
Export variant is said to have 200km range, not sure about the one Russians use
probably from the Mig-31
there is a HUD video of an Su-35S launching it at 160 -180km, dont know the speed of the Su-35S tho, because it was blurred
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Do you know the source of it having 400km range is from?