Sukhoi Su-30MKM Flanker-H - When East meets West in Southeast Asia

Well is there proof of the Kh-38 having some sort of specific component on said Su-30’s that is needed for it? And that this does not have it? If so, it can be bug reported.

So far I’ve only seen people comment about it but post no proof about this specifically not gonna lie

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Its model is even correct, holy I love it :D

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It’s never been advertised for use on su-30mki variants, only the base su-30mk. Tho atp idrc, I’ve long realized gaijin standards changes every single time another vehicle drops

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What’s optic maws? Is that UV?

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I meant it should UV type maws not optic, unless optic means UV?

Just remembered about this image

Mentions that the Su-30MK’s can have KH-38. This isn’t far off.

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Yeah that’s why I said b4 that it’s only meant for mk, not mki variants. And no su30sm brochure shows kh38 as options while plenty of su35 brochures do. IMO it’s no use taking up to gaijin, they do as they please so it’s whatever atp

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@MythicPi do you know if optic maws is the same as UV maws?

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plus just because one has hardware (shares the same pylon as Kh-29) doesn’t mean it’s plug and play too, I doubt it able to use it

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I’ve never heard of optical MAWS, 3 types I know of are radar, IR, and UV.

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Time for some ult history skins in the marketplace East Japan 89

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I feel like its just a mistake, pretty sure its UV with 240-280nm wavelength

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That’s what I thought as well… but are different kinds of ir maws modelled in game? Is it worth reporting?

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If it would be a different jet, with differen loadout it would be completely ok, but untill it’s copy+past+add wester features, it doesn’t really look fair.

Here’s export brochure for su-30mki type fighters

Max speed looks like it should go down to 1350 kph on deck, rn it can go around 1500 kph on the deck

Judging by those documents it should have 12500 kts on it’s AL-31FP engines, also the Su-27 should have the same amount on it’s AL-31F engines, which are the same as the FP, but without thrust vectoring. And by all that Su-27SM should receive it’s 13500kts on each engine

That’s bench thrust, you’re confusing installed vs uninstalled thrust.
Here is the engine chart for al31f. As you can see installed thrust is lower than the rated bench thrust
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I see in the image there is written it’s (стенд) uninstalled thrust, which is judging by the image, a little bit more then 12k

has nothing to do with allies or politics but ok

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