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

Maybe. You’d still struggle to find ANY pilot that would happily admit ‘yep, actually my plane is a bit crap.’

It’s something of an unspoken rule in my experience. Kind of like car-people on that front.

didnt really saw a soviet/ russian pilot do it yet tho
simply bc they dont really do interviews

but F-16 pilots say the F-16 is the best,
F-15 pilots say the F-15 is the best and so on

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Not bad.

Not what it should be… But it’s passable.

https://youtu.be/MFEKIfulyac?si=GXpZxCePvlcVdDbS See 7:00.

Should the Su-33 and 30SM also be able to use the canards as air brakes on landing? Very cool to see how they move independently from the horizontal stabilisers.

well, we know Israeli F-35’s have been using external stores

Also luneburg lenses for sure

That’s just texts from magazines NIIP shared on their website which talk about them, it’s not NIIP text. This one is from “Aviasalony Mira”.

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IRST is heavilly atmospherics dependent, cloudy wet day good luck.
This is all hear say, Russia fight over Russian territory it is what it’s airfrorce is designed to do.
If an F-35 came into Russian airspace it is not IRBIS that would be detecting it. It would be the A-50s and high power ground based radars.

Gaijin should be starting to think about DL and having an EAWACS airframe for each team.

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Certainly to the public internally the RAF guys used to bemoan Jaguars lack of engine power

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7 months for a bar between intakes

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The su33 probably not, due to it not having a proper Fbw but I could imagine that the su30 could

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So just another 7 months for them to fix the rest of the damn 3d model

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How su30

Does the Su-30SM navy camo look more grey now or am I imagining it?

It does, they recently changed it

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Ah, shame, looked much better before imo

su-27sm2 🥀

and ARB EC pls

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Now it kinda looks washed out like the Su-34 dark camo, dunno why they felt like changing it :/

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Used to cover up the worst of the texture scuff’s as well

Shouldn’t that pylon be removed too?