I love how cocky you are saying that “an air-worthy plane is just a ‘functioning mock up’”
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It it was truly air-worthy we would probably have saw more then 2 flights.
Than*
It was successful at what Mikoyan-Gurevich was attempting at.
It was successful at what the government wanted.
It was everything that they wanted.
It came too late, and wouldn’t be produced in enough numbers, and wouldn’t be worth the funding or hassle to fully implement the production of it.
Not to mention, they practically gave up on developing stealth aircraft because it doesn’t follow their doctrine.
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Yes I often catch the mistake and correct it before you. But doesn’t help your case.
SOURCE?
it didn’t even make in hour in the air. Let alone we don’t know if it went high enough to say it truly saw the sky.
What is my source?
Okay, first let’s just use common sense:
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Less than 10 years after the fall of the Soviet Union
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Was being produced in both USSR and Post-Soviet Russia, meaning the project was “abandoned” during the downfall untill the government picked it back up
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They quickly got into a war, a “civil war” in the Chechen wars, so they were more focused on getting their fleet updated or repaired than a experimental project
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The plane took its first flight in in 2000, that’s 3 years after the F-22, and the impeded time from the fall of the Soviet Union meant that development of ALL military tech ground to a quick halt for a good while
It went above the damn com-block apartments, that’s for sure.
Given alt was 1km
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none of those correlate.
All your examples 1-4 doesn’t mean anything was successful about the program. Russia had interest in a 5th gen fighter so they revised the soviet plans. Where is the success in that? Everyone had interest in 5th Gen fighters.
You must genuinely lack any critical thinking skills to not understand that. It makes perfect sense.
I could ask anyone that I readily know on the forum who regularly dabble in and understand how these processes work to come in here, and that would make perfect sense.
Like @Winter-Class and @Morvran
Consider the Wright bros amazed.
Yes I can’t wait to hear how a paper plane being revisited after the fall of the USSR then not even being off the ground for an hour. Shows success.
until you look at the f22 looks very sharp and boxy
at lest until you go up close
I love how you’re calling it a paper plane still.
The only reason it didn’t enter production was because the $/U was way too high for the new Russian Defence force to buy, maintain, and operate.
- Crew: 1
- Length: 19 m (63 ft)
- Wingspan: 15 m (50 ft)
- Height: 4.50 m (15 ft)
- Empty weight: 18,000 kg (40,000 lb)
- Loaded weight: 28,000 kg (62,000 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 35,000 kg (77,000 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Lyulka AL-41F afterburning turbofans, 176 kN (39,680 lb) each
- Guns: 1× 30 mm Izhmash GSh-301 cannon, 250 rounds
- Missiles: R-77 (AA-12 Adder) medium-range radar-guided missiles, R-73 (AA-11 Archer) short-range IR-guided missiles, K-37 long-range radar-guided missiles, K-74 short-range IR-guided missiles
- Payload: likely any AGM or small-diameter free fall bomb in the Russian inventory
What was promised and the version you are suggesting to come to the game.
Max Alt: 1000m
Max Speed: 600kmh
Single seat
Armaments:
NONE.
what was produced.
Yes, and the YaK-141 was added to game in the exact same situation.
You must forget that I said early, that this was “if stealth fighters get added” and what would fill Russian gaps. Cough, cough
At least the YAK was in the air for more than an hour.
Yes by giving it fake stealth abilities right? We go by that might as well give the US the F/A-37
LMAO no. This one airframe is less developed than even the YF-22 or YF-23 prototypes which were built in the late 80s and flew in 1990.
Did the Talon ever fly, because last I remember it’s a complete work of fiction.
I meant service F-22, not YF-22.
