Posted on 11/07/2014 9:16:08 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Ivan got one thing right without a doubt, it looks awesome!!!
Red Flag briefing about IAF Su-30MKI by a USAF Col. - Part II
Mentions Soviet thrust vectoring.
“insanity”
Disagree, respectfully.
“part of the plan”
Such as?
Compressor stalls out the inlets allows it to fly backwards?
Didn’t realize it was the same air-show from another vantage point.
Rearward facing radar I’m told.
This is a rather mature design that the Russkis have been steadily upgrading and flogging all over the globe. It is a pretty damn good plane, though, and very cost effective, just not super up-to-date design.
Also, the Russkis' customers always seem to have maintenance issues, so how many are available to any given air force is always a good question. Same deal with us. 121 F-22s? That seems a ludicrously low number, given the realities of maintenance and the availability factor for any combat aircraft. If an enemy has 100 of these available, on a day when we have 10 F22s available .... that's a problem, no matter how good the F22 might be. Of course, we still have our upgraded versions of F-15s and F-18s, too.
Confusing, this F22-F35 force ratio and the plans for phasing out other aircraft, re-powering B-52's, Stealth Bombers, B-1s, dropping the A-10(The best CAS Weapon system ever)etc. etc. Question Pentagon: Just Where TF are we?
Here’s my dumb question: How many kinds of war planes to we really need (leaving the Navy out for a moment)? Could we get by with just four, assuming we had sufficient numbers
F-22 - establish air superiority
Some type of AWACs plane
F-16 - Combat Air Patrol, after air superiority established
A10 - ground attack and support
It would be nice if Obunghole hadn’t stopped Raptor production.
Until they start winning some wars with it, I am not impressed.
that's the rear firing weapons pod, didn't you ever watch Firefox? The movie that is, not the web browser.
IIRC, when the F22 was going through trials, they put it up against 4 F15’s. I believe the results were the F15’s all were killed without getting off a shot. Now it is my belief that the F15, a 30 year old plane is still the best warplane in the world, aside from the F22.
Something a friend of mine told me recently was, “I have a $4,000 gaming computer system and I still suck at World of Warcraft.”
It isn’t the plane that makes the man, but the man who makes the plane.
Air tankers, search and rescue/recovery, surveillance, transport (materiel and personnel), etc.
IOW, no.
Lockheed wanted it killed too. Too much threat to the F-35 program, which is much larger $$$ for them.
Only if the US had been intelligent enough to do the same with the F-15 beyond the aging F-15E.
Suspect the Russians do not have as large a procurement monster dragging everything down either.
Just in case you have a Sopwith Camel on your tail, eh?
Have ya seen the movie, twernt no sopwith Gant took out, and who said it had to fire cannon rounds? ; )
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