F-15ex has better thrust to weight than a su-35 that’s on full emergency power empty lol, f-15ex will have much better bvr potential than any flanker while having same amount of arh missiles
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I rarely even use the IRST, I used it lately just because it was able to fire R-77-1’s, but since that got patched, not much more use for it to be honest.
As for the model, it’s still very messy, clipping pylons, pylons that should be off the wings in a no loadout config, wing gap and wrongly tilted canards. I hope they didn’t forget there’s a report up for it.
Yeah, right now it looks like a frankenstein model kitbashed from stuff that was already in-game with some adjustments. I am honestly quite surprised considering that there is plenty of photos at every angle or distance possible. It really feels lazy or extremely rushed.
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Almost forgot to mention the camo, but that’s more of an inside joke at this point, Gaijin clearly just wanted to achieve the museum look, and they definitely did ;)
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You see dem russkies have no money for fresh paint so thats just authentic military look. Source - trust me bro i saw podcasts on Russian economy, they won’t lie
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Nah. While these change are good. The FM is still bad. Note how these new change are only mean for when your flying above 1000km/h.
All of them do nothing at low speed handling. Meaning TVC its just a stupid gimmick.
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I wouldn’t expect Gaijin to fix that any time soon. It seems that there is some internal “balancing factor” that makes every single Flanker into a missile bus because it can carry more missiles than most competition. At least that seems to be the case, looking how stubbornly gaijin ignores any and all bug reports on that topic.
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That’s true tho, and since the thrust buff comes in to play at 600kmh (a speed that flankers struggle to hold while doing a sequence of turns), the TVC maneuvers don’t differ from how the FM is right now on Live server.
At least one day the AL-41’s will help a bit.
I love that Su-30 looses lift at lower AOA than Rafale in game. And the fact that Rafale can’t even achieve the AOA needed to even start to loose lift during a turn. So Flanker falls to the ground while glorious delta just floats around.
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Yea that its the only part that its getting buffed. The Missile Bus Flanker.
Yea hope. That At least they do something Right with Su-35s/AL-41. Current TVC is trash.
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I think I saw you mentioning that the AL-41 has different angles for the TVC nozzles no?
Would that change much compared TVC we have now (especially the Su-35 that has no canards as well)?
Its hard to explain. But if AL-31FP move in two way diagonally. AL-41 move in 3 different way. The 3rd way its horizontally (I think). So even if they aren’t true 3D. Like Mig29ovt. Or the ones made for the Eurofighter. They move the plane around like they are 3D.
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In some show you can see how Su-30sm can perform some Maneuver a bit faster than Su-35s. Mostly because it have canards +tvc. But even without Canards the Su-35s its not much less agile.
Maneuver like this Russian Knights Su-35S aerobatics at the Dubai Airshow 2023 11:45 should be harder in Su-35s without canards or the TVC of AL-41.
And then you have Su-57. That thing is beautiful. Just compare How fast and easy its for the Su-57 enter and leave the Fallen Leaf. To how slow its the F-22 to even perform it. The only thing close to the Su-57 should be the Su-37.
My problem with the TVC on Su-30sm in game its mostly that its stop working and the plane freeze doing nothing for like 2 second. That its so unrealistic. Did you turn the engine off?. Why would TVC stop pushing the plane around?. Why are the control surface not working?. And also that it don’t help the plane turn.
With Su-35s Gaijin won’t have excuse like the plane its underpower. Like with the Su-30sm.
Edit; the video its not working for whatever reason… Name its “Russian Knights Su-35S aerobatics at the Dubai Airshow 2023” minute 11:44
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True, it feels like the TVC with limitations off completely overshadows the authority of the rudders and stabilizers, the jet (as you mentioned) freezes up and stops responding to both keybind controls and mouse aim, and then it suddenly start working again.
That’s a pretty annoying thing especially with some maneuvers where you are literally just trying to reverse a turn.
Edit: I think there was a report for this made long ago by @unluckyg, it was mostly for how bad mouse aim feels with the AOA off, but iirc it had this issue too.
Ah thanks, thought it was unavailable for my country lol.
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exactly, so annoying considering how IRL it seems like they’re in control the entire time they’re post stall
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Idk why but when I do similar stall maneuvers in the eurofighter or rafale, with limitations off, the rudder, ailerons or flaps always hit max deflection that they can reach, meanwhile the Su30 has barely any movement of the canards, rudders and horizontal stabs… Ik TVC nozzles put a lot of work into those maneuvers, but it’s even clear from videos that the other surfaces have more authority compared to wt.
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Simply delicious.
get ready for the blue Su-24 afterburner
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AL-41F-1 has fully 3D TVC nozzles. They can move up to 16 degrees in any direction and up to 20 degrees in a single plane. MiG-29OVT has only 15 degrees in any direction. But interesting thing i found about the nozzles on MiG-29OVT. Had a talk with one of the engineers that worked on this project over social media and apparently this type of nozzle is universal and can be installed on pretty much any engine with as little work as possible. While AL-31 and 41 have nozzles designed specifically for them.
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