R-74m2 with 360 launch capability me rather have
comrade, why wait for it with the su57 when you can have it at 13.0 in the su27
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Damn it always suprises me how big flankers are
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Goddamit, R-73 on this photo is at such a weird angle that it almost looks like it is on a wingtip pylon. I was about to say that we can cram 2 more ERs into a Su-33
This one requires tail radar that was tested on one of the M prototypes. Missile needs targeting parameters.
They’re well past house sized lmao, they’re MASSIVE.
even compared to F-15, which is a pretty big bird as well
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It’s amazing the Flanker is as maneuverable as it is.
If Sukhoi at the time had as good of a relationships with ЦАГИ as MiG, we would’ve had even better Su-27
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That doesn’t make sense.
Can’t get better than perfect.
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Perfect things aren’t being completely redesigned in a middle of development. One can only speculate what Sukhoi would’ve cooked if all that time wasn’t wasted and ЦАГИ taking as big involvement with development as it had with MiG when they worked on a MiG-29
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imagine how surprised the engineers at GRUMMAN were when they saw the first photos of the Su27, realizing that they wouldn’t have to spend INSANE amounts of money on new larger radars for the F16 and F18 because the Su27 has up to 1000m RCS with even the R27, not the R77
Sounds like bs
While it is large I don’t think its that large
I remember a picture of an Indian Sukhoi parked next to a Rafale, that was quite the whiplash. As well as seeing them get towed by full on trucks and the trucks still looking small.
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That’s an exageration, he knows it’s not that big. a RCS isn’t even in meters but in squared meters, he’s not giving a real figure
Yeah it’s more around 15-20m^2 not 1000.
Imo he’s being hyperbolic
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Holy sheet of paper that’s actually huge xD
And I thought the F-15’s rcs was big
