Or per chance they could add the Su-30SM2 foldered with the Su-30SM ;)
Still wouldn’t overshadow the poor FM performance, yes, BIG THRUST, but that alone ain’t solving the problem.
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it would still miss tons of lift
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That is true, the FM aint the greatest. Tho The T/W ratio of the SM rn is one of its biggest downsides of the jet at least from my experience. Id think of the SM2 as a sort of intermediate until the Su-35 or even Su-37 arrives…
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Then they should add the R-37M)
That is never a problem for Gaijin.
This is a problem for Russia as they really don’t have anything else before the Axehead.
R-77M isn’t in service and R-27EA wont fill the capability gap when Western nations have 120C/D
Meteors and newer MICAS.
At that point the Chinese Flankers with PL-15s will take over as the best Flanker
Totally agree on that, and yes the AL-41 would help it accelerate faster and possibly hang a bit longer in slow dogfights
it will only help, to midigate the problem, but it will not fix it
the actual problem (when you are not in a BVR fight) is the excessive drag and missing lift
more thrust will not fix that
In terms of getting up to speed, it should help, even if I doubt it would match the other 14.0 acceleration. As for the dogfight bit, it wouldn’t fix the problem totally, but I guess it could help a bit by making you stand more on your engines.
lol this is stupid
more lift would also help you in BVR, it will help you turn into the notch and same if the drag gets reduced, less drag will mean that you accelerate faster
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The R-27EA is also not in service.
LMAO
That too, but to be honest with you I have no idea by how much it is underperforming in that regard, so I can’t really give my opinion
the R-27EA would defenetly bridge the gap to the 120C-5 as the ER and 120C-5 have nearly equal range, the EA being an active ER would match very well against the 120C-5, the sad thing is that gaijin would rather add the R-27EA which was a mock up only vaporware missile rather than fix the R-77, R-77-1 drag along with the Su-27, 27SM, 33 and 30SM flight models (same goes for the MiG-29’s)
Chinese J-16 is probably the most advanced capable Flanker in the world right now in terms of payload, Radar and power plants.
And they have some wild ideas like this official model showing 22 missile payload
that’s a J-16
Yeah typo
