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

Here’s their name on the su35 radar brochure, they’re [email protected]

Spoiler

It is of no substantial value, but i saw Su-35 pilot talk, he was deployed in Syria. If his words are to be believed he had no problems detecting Israeli F-35 from “normal distance” and he didn’t even realised that those were F-35 until after mission briefing. And according to mission legend those F-35 weren’t using reflectors as well. But ofc it’s just a talk, take it however you like.

And there is also this image right here:

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Ask any fighter pilot what plane is the best in the world and the answer will inevitably be ‘whichever plane I’m in.’

Pilot talk is useful and all - but they are human beings like the rest of us.

unless it is a F-18 pilot that flew the F-14 before the F-18 ^^

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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

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