thats because (from my understanding) there are two camps in sukhoi that have slightly different opinions
one wants canards, the other one dosent, for example
i think @BBCRF might know more than me about that than me
IIRC
Three factories.
Knaapo Su-35S and Su-30 without canards
Irkut Su-30 with canards
Novosib Su-34.
need to assign a KGB officer with a Mauser to every engineer in Irkut and Novosibirsk to force them make Su-35S and not invent their own incompatible flankers.
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Why a Mauser and not Makarov or MP443
100%, based knaapo for not making canard flankers
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The Su-33 has an increased area.
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No, that’s not true.
My Bad then, i just felt like you might be more informed than me
Made a Bug Report on the Su-30, it is currently missing a few MFD pages
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/EljNegnDJ53F
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I know, but I would’ve figured they woulda just made the proportions larger and keep the shape from the original Flanker.
but, that does make sense-
Anyone gonna report that ESA radars should be able to fire SARH missiles in TWS and guide multiple of them?
I’ve only seen that for the irbis radar, which can guide 2 27ers at once.
bars can guide 2 as well
You mean without hardlock and while keeping the TWS tracking on the selected target?
ESA radars can hardlock and continue scanning at the same time
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Some proof on the ACTIVE radar guided R-27 series. Thank you to GENERAL LEE 2000 for this book.
Cover:
Essentially what it’s saying is that the R-27A (not ea) was test fired, on a mig-29. From what I can tell, EA was not fired. So, seekerhead exists, and was test fired. And, the seeker head can be mounted on the extended range motor. So, it could probably be added. Right now? Hell no. When the aim-120c5 is released, R-27EA can be added as its equivalent.
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Could be added to MiG-29? Well, maybe. From what i heard that should be an MiG-29S
But for other planes that shouldnt be evidence, since that is different missile(from what they already have), aswell as R-27AE never existed, only R-27A.
R-27EA would be strong but easier to defeat than an R-27ER