The raptor will shoot it out of the sky before the pilot even sees it.
What a fighter!
Maybe we should order a few?
Where are the 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.
Such as?
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?
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.
The Russians make some nice looking aircraft while we have fat looking aircraft.