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

[ILuvAna_De_Armas]

Now that I take a look it does seem like it could carry fuel.

Like, looking at the very top part of the Su-35 rudder I can see it has a very stretched oval shape, whereas the Su-27 is super thin metal.

[ron_23]

or it is just extra reinforcements since the rudders are bigger
and they are used as an airbreak

[GitGood]

i tend to believe that this is for the fuel tanks. 2 tons of extra fuel is quite a lot, and if you look at the fuel system slide from the booklet, you can see that yellow coverage goes up the tail.

[Dzhkグ]

Su-30M2 still flies.

[DarKBird]

Something something electronic warfare supremacy if I had to guess (also looking down onto supermaneuvering (a least this one makes sense))

[Balta779517-live]

Does anyone know how many days is it until you lose access to the forum without game activity?

[ron_23]

depends on how active you were ingame before stopping to play

[Dzhkグ]

Is this your goodbye message since you haven’t met your quota

[Balta779517-live]

I might just disappear soon🫡, I won’t be able to play WT until like august 13th or something like that since vacation

[racimazzedine]

wt mobile can keep you logins.

[somebody_Else]

Its not like the logins are worth much anyway

Just boosters they won’t be able to use anyway

[racimazzedine]

he will not be doing it for the reward but to keep acount active so he can talk in the forum.

[somebody_Else]

You need to play matches for that

[racimazzedine]

even on mobile ?

[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