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

Oh man, haven’t heard that one in a while…

Some really great Su-35S close-ups.




This one is my favorite by far.

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It looks like that one on the ground but that bolted cap…maybe easy access port for the seeker

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The only possible explanation for the hatch to be there i can think of, is that the radome was taken from something else, and put on the 35.
I doubt it’s the case, but it’s a possibility.

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@GitGood Already pointed this out but on the Kh-35… You can just take off the entire cap since it’s one piece.

There’s very little reason to add ANOTHER cap ontop of the cap to access the seeker.

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This is perhaps the worst thing I have seen on a Flanker.

A French TGP and U.S. Laser Guided Bombs.

And they’re not even the big laser guided bombs, only 500 lbs ones.

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su-35 will probably “break the unbreakable” in terms of WT but i personally wish we had something more interesting for Canard flankers than what we have currently (it feels like tweaked f-15C). for example something like f-18e but with bigger acceleration and top speed lol. i’d even take 2 less fox-3s if 30SM family had something to offer besides funny flip-flops at low speed

Sometimes I’m reminded of how small the stuff in war thunder looks, bring hangar man back so that we can have better perspective🙏🏻

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guys, flanker ballet

I hope you like it

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I saw this earlier, very beautiful.

Been a while since I last saw a video from you, nice.

I saw a video of YOURs earlier.

It was the SVJ on the Sunset drive. It was very nice.

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Haha nice thanks, I’m now playing around with Nvidia filters to kinda kill the grey-ish image look.

So I’ll probably post more :)

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Here’s an amazing clip of me and my friend doing a sim dogfight in the 27SM with R-73s.

I cut out all the VC, but I lost him and yelped like a girl when I found him.

I also had to cut it in two to make it fit on the forums. :p


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Also those first two R-73s really are a testament to how floppy they are.

That’s also the reason why I like to put a guy next to each model I make for scale

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Gaijin could’ve just place a pilot model close to the cockpit, little effort but gives a lot better perspective

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only if you dont treat them right

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This 100% should’ve hit but it decided to break its ankles instead.

R-73s are just bipolar from my experience.

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i pulled out some clips now that we are posting sim dogfights in here


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