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First few prototypes were converted t-10 prototypes and not new air frames
but that stuff always mostly from Mig
Sukhoi has been rather consistent
i agree, Sukhoi tends to be quite consitent with letters. On the other hand it brought a funny moment with 2 Su-30MK2V
Su-35 HUD doing SEAD
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Camera near engines on Su-35S during Dubai airshow.
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Dead link or location restriction? :(
goddamit, lemme try to fix it
Issue could be on my part to be fair haha
nah, it doesn’t work for me either if i try to click it from here.
now it should work, without spoiler
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it doesnt come from the engine but their fuel
Su-30MK2 with the same engine as the base Su-27:
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Pretty cool angle
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with a 360 view no less. There are moments with TVC working as well, one is around 43 minute
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Read a bit on TVC engines. Apparently the main difference between Saturn and Klimov designs (outside of Klimov having full 3D TVC) is the fact that Saturn design moves the entire nozzle of the engine, while Klimov ontly moves the supersonic part of the nozzle. Another fun tidbit is that the TVC nozzle offered by Salyut for their AL-31F-M1/2/3 is actually made with help from Klimov engineers, utilises their design and actually offers full 3D TVC. Sadly, no one bought it, but M1 with TVC was on a static display as part of Su-27P flying laboratory at MAKS-2003.
Seems that this is the design offered by Salyut and you can see that only supersonic part of the nozzle is tilted without hydraulics being powered.
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Yup, unfortunate that the only proper full 3d tvc plane is the mig -29m ovt with full ±20 degrees deflection at any angle
is it 20 tho? For now i only found 15 degrees for RD-33 design and 16 degrees for Salyut design.
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Idk where ±15 degrees come from it’s always been 20.
the only photo of Su-27P with Salyut TVC nozzle i could find.