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

4 (2 on outer wings and 2 between engines)

SO max will be like 4 * R77-1, 2 * R73, 6 * KH38s, and then 1 * grom or 1500kg?

Where do you all get these numbers from

Su-27/33/30 can take around 9400-9700 kg internal

Su-35 takes around 11300-11500

Without Grom-1 or 1500kg if you to take away the double rack

That would be 6 R-77-1s then, just KH38s are fine, although I do like a glide bomb into a capturing spot.

Not sure what other Flankers can, but Su-35 can carry 2x2000L tanks

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Vert stab fuel tanks?

What a damn long mission

No

image literally shows fuel tanks in the vertical stabilizers, wdym no

These are not vertical stabilizers, but side beams.

Fair enough, I would have appreciated it if you started with that instead of just No

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I mistranslated the payload section from that source. Yandex failed me.

A compilation of (primary) sources on Su-35:

Su-35 booklet Rus:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181221074318/http://www.knaaz.org/media/rus/about/production/military/su-35/su-35_buklet_rus.pdf

Su-35 booklet Eng:
https://airgroup2000.com/gallery/albums/userpics/32438/SU-35_TM_eng.pdf

Su-35 Program Press kit of JSC “UAC” from August 17, 2011:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128230919/http://knaaz.org/media/rus/about/production/military/su-35/su-35_press-kit.pdf

UAC/Sukhoi Su-35 Brochure:
https://www.avia-n-aero.ru/coa/_files/exhibition/303616228899C1F56E.jpg

Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant ((KnAAZ or KnAAPO)'s website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220112183103/http://knaaz.org/products/su-35/

United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001150753/https://www.uacrussia.ru/ru/aircraft/lineup/military/su-35/#aircraft-specific
https://web.archive.org/web/20221230195501/https://uacrussia.ru/ru/aircraft/lineup/military/su-35/#design-features
https://web.archive.org/web/20230927022434/https://uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/military/su-35/#aircraft-specific
https://web.archive.org/web/20230202214924/https://uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/military/su-35/#design-features

Sukhoi’s website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220302204136/https://www.sukhoi.org/products/samolety/256/

Rosoboronexport (Official arms-export organization of the Russian government) website:
https://roe.ru/production/aviatsionnaya-tekhnika-i-vooruzhenie-vozdushno-kosmicheskikh-sil/samolety/mnogotselevye-istrebiteli-i-istrebiteli-bombardirovshchiki/su-35/

FSVTS (Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation) website:
https://www.fsvts.gov.ru/catalog/680.ru.html

IRST & TGP & MAW & LWS manufacturer (Research-and-Production Corporation Precision Systems and Instruments, NPK SPP):
https://npk-spp.ru/air/ols/
https://npk-spp.ru/air/ols-konteiner/
https://npk-spp.ru/en/air/for-su/ols/
https://npk-spp.ru/en/air/for-su/soec/
https://npk-spp.ru/en/air/for-su/maws/
https://npk-spp.ru/en/air/for-su/lws/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150610162859/http://www.npk-spp.ru:80/deyatelnost/avionika/166-ols-35.html

OLS-35 brochure:

Spoiler

Radar manufacturer/designer (Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design, NIIP)'s website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240527195250/https://www.niip.ru/catalog/eksportnaya-produktsiya/rlsu-irbis-e/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171016092505/http://niip.ru:80/catalog/aviatsionnoe-naprvlenie/rlsu-irbis/

Irbis-E Brochure:

Spoiler

Irbis-E Brochure 2B

Sources for Su-35’s Irbis-E’s ability to guide two R-27ERs simultaneously from NIIP’s website (Also contains some general info about Irbis-E):
https://web.archive.org/web/20080327051343/http://www.niip.ru/main.php?page=library_sky19
https://web.archive.org/web/20090304194610/http://www.niip.ru/main.php?page=library_sky17

Other pages regarding Irbis-E from NIIP’s website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090210204623/http://www.niip.ru:80/main.php?page=library_sky18

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A lot of Russian companies have removed their military products from their websites since the start of the contemporary world events.

I assume it has to do with trying to avoid sanctions etc.

But the internet archive links are the last snapshot of each page.

The internet archive links (snapshots) are also cross-archived in archive.today, in case internet archive has problems (like they had recently).

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Similar functionality to PIRATE?

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Fuck no. Also cope

Well thats your view…I forsee tears when the F-15EX/SA gets added with 22 120s! As that would be a realistic payload for that airframe and Boeing confirm as much.

Or we could maybe think about the health of the game and how bad it is for any nation realistic or not to have more than 8 missiles.

My Calculations are 25300 cross weight. -570k (2xR-73+2xR-77) -5750 fuel -400 Khibiny pods. The Knaapo Brochure has Khibiny pods include. That is why the Wingspan is 15.3 instead of the regular 14.7m.