Well, they did DECREASE thrust and left it called AL-31FP for Su-30MK2 so…
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Jokes aside, my predictions for it are:
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3D model, much like the Su-30 on release, will be a blantant mix of already present flankers, and will most likely require reports to fix it.
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FM wise, given the weight, it will be a heavy boat like the Su30 but less draggier due to lack of canards(?), so no duel beast.
Acceleration should feel quite good, not delta-canard level, but quite better than the Su-30 (200kg extra weight but with around 3000kgf-ish more thrust). -
Radar, depending on how they chose to model the angle limitations, could be quite a good one, especially since you theoretically could sit in the notch and guide your missiles.
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Other general electronics;
-Finally MAW, for more situational awarenss.
-Improved RWR, which from what I saw it covers more angles, pretty nice since Flankers got blindspots (especially when notching).
-Proper HMD for the SIM enjoyers.
-R-77-1’s which on a faster platform will feel even better (hopefully also align its seeker to MICA level).
If I missed some other key feature feel free to tell me.
Spoiler
Yes another KH-38 carrier, but I have no say on GRB, so, whatever.
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3d model on the Su-35S will be a copy paste of the Su-27SM with the landing gear copied from the Su-30SM and engines from the Su-30SM
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Given how the 27sm’s engines perform in flight, I think the al-41 pushed those exponential gains even further. I’ve got pretty high expectations, I think it’s gonna fly really fast and have acceleration on par with the eurocanards
I just hope they only nerf the micas half sensitivity angle to 15°, it was already good like that before, theres no reason for it to have some artificial buff, the gameplay against the other missiles is honestly pretty fun the way it is right now
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The only flanker that will have that are the j-11bg equipped with the ws-10b engines, similar thrust as su-35s but on an airframe lighter than the su-27sm.
That thing has higher thrust to weight than eurofighter
Fair enough. I forgot to specify this but in my opinion, since I doubt they will revert the MICA changes, what I meant with “align R-77-1 seeker” was also refered to other Fox-3 seekers in general.
I understand your point tho, having all Fox-3’s with MICA seeker would probably negatively impact how the matches play out (while giving more fairness to less-performant Fox-3’s that some jets carry). I think that the devs are already thinking about this tho, they mentioned ECM more than once in their CM notes, so maybe they have this planned.
I dont know if I would trade the RAM for a J11BG, BG might take a while to show up in the game, and 5th gen is planned for around the middle of next year, even though it has AESA, I’ll probably fly both a lot. I also have my doubts if chinese engines are really at that level of excellence, I follow some military reports on a few chinese sites, and I often see people saying the engine quality never quite hits the goal that chinese engineers want, the engine is honestly the hardest part to make on a plane, some of them take decades to really mature and get reliable. China really started making their own engines what, like 2 or 3 decades ago?
Hm? It still uses Soora-K so it will be no difference for SIM players between current ones
I don’t know where this comes from since it was posted by Ron, but apparently the Su-35 should get something similar to this;
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Soora was dropped in like 2016, because it was imported from Ukraine.
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Don’t forget they will f up the IRST Search Limit lmao
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So it’s monocle but more fancy with few features
I think OLS-35 is well sourced enough compared to some others, but they have a tendency to copypasting them yeah😅
Apparently
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none of the flankers are a ‘dueling beast’
It was refered to the fact that some people here on the forum still consider the Su35 to be as light as a su27, which is not. If the Su35 had that weight with that thrust it could be a good duel jet imo, despite the poor FM.
Yeah the Su-30Sm is scary despite what Russian mains think. Having that many missiles an amazing Radar and a decent fm makes it a threat. Typhoon struggles with them purely because you lose energy so much while defending and have a crap Radar.
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You cant name random HMD and put it on Su-35.
НВУ-7 seems to reffer to… Щель.