Sukhoi Su-27/30/33/35/37 Flanker series & Su-34 Fullback - History, Design, Performance & Dissection (Part 3)

[somebody_Else]

Mobile is its own separate thing, so probably doesn’t count for matches played here

[Balta779517-live]

Yeah but it’s the required game activity that will be the issue

[GitGood]

Just make a bot that will play the game for you and then get banned several months later during fair play ban wave, ez

[GitGood]

one day… We got MiG-29M, gaijin, please, give us its bigger cousin from Sukhoi

[Panther2995]

Whats up with this beauty?

[racimazzedine]

@Su27M

Third prototype Bort 703 with square-topped fins.

The Su-27M featured canard fore planes, increased internal fuel(though due to the heavier weight vs the original Su-27, range was somewhat inferior), a retractable aerial refueling probe(after the idea of utilizing drop tanks was abandoned), a new and improved radar in the form of the N011, an N012 rearward radar in its tail “stinger”(which showed the possibility of installing and firing rear-ward missiles, but that has never materialized.), twelve hard points, and true multi role capability. Development was going as planned until the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. As a result, the Russian economy was devastated, and development of the Su-27M significantly slowed down to the point that development was STILL underway as late as the early to mid 2000s. This, coupled with the fact that the Russian Air Force could not afford to procure the Su-27M, along with customer preferences to two-seat fighters(as a result of learning from Gulf War experience, whereby two-seat fighters proved to be much less of a workload than single-seat fighters), the Su-27M was later cancelled, and this never entered service. The fate of the Su-27M prototypes varied; some went on to fly as a part of the Russian Knights aerobatic display team, Bort 710 went on to test the new AL-41F1(aka Product 117S) engines for the completely different Su-35S, while the very first prototype ended up at the Monino Air Museum outside of Moscow, where it was later repainted due to continual exposure to the weather.

hope this help

[GitGood]

another beautiful shot of Su-27M, this time bort 709

[GitGood]

@Panther2995

Whats up with this beauty?

oh yeah, you are local canard flanker fan, you would probably drool if gaijin adds Su-27M

[Panther2995]

Average Canard Flanker enjoyer indeed.

[Panther2995]

Judging the information and images seems it can utilize R77’s.

[GitGood]

Always could. Su-27M was designed with new A2G and A2A weapons in mind.

[Panther2995]

One more canard addition for my collection, yummy.

Now we need Su-37.

[GitGood]

@Panther2995

Now we need Su-37.

It’s just Su-27M with TVC and different cockpit
At least by War Thunder standards

[Panther2995]

I know but still.

It holds special place in my heart.

[Balta779517-live]

Doesn’t it have the N011M instead?

[GitGood]

N011M was installed on several Su-27M airframes, Su-37 is not unique in this case

[Sanguisage]

How will mech N011 perform compared to mech zhuk radars

[GitGood]

@Panther2995

It holds special place in my heart.

Flanker wise for me it will be Su-27M. Because, unlike ovehyped “look, i have TVC and a side stick” Su-37 tech demo, Su-7M is what next generation Soviet heavy fighter actually would look like. It is a testament of USSR engineering (alongside MiG-29M, Su-25TM and MiG-31M) and something that took Russia years to get back to and eventually overtake.

[Dzhkグ]

Was this after they were cancelled?

[Balta779517-live]

Ah thought the Su-37 airframe was the only one that had the N011M