Posted on 11/07/2014 9:16:08 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
The raptor will shoot it out of the sky before the pilot even sees it.
What a fighter!
Maybe we should order a few?
Will it be able to function “properly” in the rapidly warming climate? :>}
Nice looking plane none the less.
Where are the canards?
We have 121 Raptors. Russians build enough SU-35s and Raptor stealth will be moot.
I hate Obama for killing the F22 (well, I hate Obama...period)
Are we making any Raptors, or just JSF’s?
If we don’t have any, we can’t use them.
Who’s to say these guys haven’t got something close?
I’d love to be wrong.
$70 gas means the Russians aren’t going to quietly going bankrupt any time soon. They are going to respond.
Look ma, no canards.
What’s the big stinger-looking thing on the back end all about? Countermeasures?
Would like to see a film...............
As an amateur it’s safe for me to talk thrust.
Ivan’s engine 14,500 kgf of thrust equates to about 30,000 pounds of thrust per engine.
The F22 is rated at 35,000 pounds of thrust which also has vectoring. I see no vectoring nozzles on this beast. Ivan also has a history of short engine life. I don’t believe their engine life claim.
Ivan’s hot rod also doesn’t look like light weight so they are probably within a few thousand pounds of each other.
Obama canceled the Raptor, no more of them.
insanity
I like you have a lot of faith in our Aircraft and our pilots,but since we have such limited numbers if F-22’s it worries me that we will not have an adaquate force to deal with the Russian 4th and 5th Generation fighters.
I just hope the U.S.Air Force was able to build more of the F-22’s in the Black after the original program was canceled.
F22 vectoring goes up and down
Russian vectoring usually goes in any direction
Rap on Russian engines is they are short lived and thirsty!!!
Actually, Bush’s people killed it. They got the final passage under Obama, but they started its end while Bush was in office.
I can tell you where I would vector it. Up Ivan’s lying a$$.
And not by a small margin. Crappy engines are a issue for their customers. Their customer’s don’t have all the slave labor to do their maintenance.
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