I think the Su-30SM2 should also be added and maybe foldered in, the Su-35 could come after the Su-30s
the Su-30SM2 is very unlikely in the near future as i explained in an earlier post
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In real life is it possible to use the radar and IRST at the same time on flankers?
Yes, in fact since the MiG-23 there is basic sensor fusion in which it helps when the lock is lost or in high jamming environments.
This is not modelled in game, should make notching harder, there should also be the ability to engage with IRST alone with R-77 and R-27R as well in which the radar hard locks the target when a missile is launched.
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The proposed ejectable conformal fuel tank lives rent free in my head.
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Spent the last two hours making this sorta genealogy of the flanker family… Probably forgot some and there’s probably mistakes as well but here you go:
Spoiler
Color code:
Vehicle color:
- Blue vehicle means navy
- Orange vehicle means trainer
- Red vehicle means strike aircraft
- Green vehicle means electronic warfare aircraft
- White vehicle means other
- Mixed colors means several of these
Arrow color:
- Red arrow means upgrade
- Blue arrow means sidegrade/avionics change
- White arrow means other
arrow shape:
- Full line arrow means “developed from”
- Dotted line means “using progress from”
vehicle outline shape:
- Full outline: operational vehicle
- Large dots outline: prototype
- small dots outline: proposed
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That’s impressive asf.
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Some issues but overall a good chart. I for sure would’ve made lots of issues as well if I attempted making something like this, just so many things to remember, and so much conflicting sources that you have to sift through when making something like this. I
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Yeah that took way longer than I would’ve thought… Can you tell me the issues you spotted though? I’d like to fix it as much as possible
Su-35S dotted line to Su-30SM2
Su-37 probable dotted line to Su-30MKI
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Su-30SM model is still inaccurate.
Just give me my mfin flushed wings Gaijin
Just fix all the pylons.
I don’t want to see all those pylons when I’m flying with just guns.
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That’s not how you spell “remake the entire model from scratch and get it right this time”
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That would be great, even tho I doubt they’d do that. Pretty clear that the Su-30 is a mishmash of previous flankers models, but at least it would be nice to see some proportions and minor fuselage bugs get fixed.
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The pylons, the irst, the proportions, the canards, etc… there’s so many inaccuracies in the model even I would’ve done better
Let’s not forget the flight model
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How could one forget the most important thing
*A bad mishmash of previous flanker models
If it was any “good” they wouldn’t screw up wing root (which looks nice and clean on other canarded Flankers, like Su-33)
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