Sukhoi Su-27/30/33/35/37 Flanker series & Su-34 Fullback - History, Design, Performance & Dissection (Part 2)

The IRIS-T features that matter are not the seeker shutoff or the FoV reduction, it uses neither. Instead it uses an imaging system that can determine ejected countermeasures are too small to be the real target, and in the case of obscuration due to mass dumping of flares it can predict target traveling path and ignore the countermeasures or obscuration and lead into targets last known path for re-acquisition. The computers and tracking systems in such missiles are much harder to fool, but not impossible if you can blind it and change direction quickly enough that it cannot re-acquire you.

How they implemented it into the game I suspect is probably far from the real world method of execution.

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i know how it works IRL

but gaijin modeled the IRIS-T and aim-9x on the new SAMs with seeker shut-off and fov reduction combined instead of IIR

and i think they wont change that for the air launched versions

The air launched versions likely will remain the same, I think they have found the balance they prefer even if it’s total garbage.

Iirc part of why US thought the MiG-25 was a manueverable air superiority fighter is because it appeared similar to the stuff they drew up for the F-15 program early on

The A-5?

Ofc

No, The Batman.

Do I like canards or no canard flankers? Help me out chat.

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i like the canarded single seaters
but i like the flankers without canarads generally more

canard-less flankers look much cleaner

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Looks like it’s from twitch drops

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Yeap, it is

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77m on su-35, at least now we can get an aim120d3/aim 260 equivalent on the su35 while still getting r37m. think image is from @I_Phobos_I. not entirely sure if 35 can get it on double pylons

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This got my hopes up even more for the 35, really good to see.

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It seems longer and got rid of the grid fins. Obviously the seeker is probably different, but what are the significant changes the 77M has?

just 2 way datalink, aesa, dual pulse motor and conventional fins. not sure if it gets gps/glonass

To be clear I got the image from @I_Phobos_I
He was responding to an obvious rage baiter on my post.

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i dont think that gaijin will give the su-35 the 77m

just so that they have something to add with the Su-57 when the day comes

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Quite funny how I found the same image on X today, came out like not even 12h ago, just in time to prove the rage baiter wrong lmao.

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if they give f-15ex 120 d/d3, i expect them to add 77m to 35. if they keep f-15e/ex/ advanced c variants to c7, and not c8/120d, then i don’t see them adding 77m to su35