Posted on 04/20/2013 1:38:21 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I think I would have an air-gasm every time I flew one of these.
It’s a great plane, and I think U.S. aviators and pilots would make a big mistake in underestimating its capabilities.
Gotta admit it’s a great looking machine.
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The Flanker series is, IMHO, simply the best family of combat aircraft to have come out of the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. Beautiful planes, too.
BTW, dunno if this was ever posted here at FR, but some years ago I ran across an article about a once-secret program called Constant Peg. Essentially, it was U.S. pilots flying/training with “acquired” Soviet MiG’s during the Cold War. Pretty interesting stuff:
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/April%202007/0407peg.aspx
Based on that article, I sure as heck would rather fly in a Flanker than a Flogger!
Sukhoi, I heard that the latest batch of 42 ordered for the IAF are the Su-35’s with the centreline Brahmos capability. How true is this?
Russian Fighters for American Airforce/Navy: The only prudent solution!
The country that is buying 35s is China ...they placed an order for (I believe 24??) from Russia. I believe India will upgrade the 30MKI rather than switch to the 35, and anyways after the 35 the 30MKI is the most advanced Flanker variant, and unlike the single seater 35, the two seater 30MKI fits perfectly to India's doctrine. I think the Indians are more than ok concentrating on the 30MKI, and on the incoming Rafale and the PakFa. With those three platforms they will be very well armed. No real need for any sort of 35 (whether we are talking about the SU-35 or the persistent rumors of the F-35 in Indian colors).
LOL ....I wish I could delete that thread. I posted it over ten years ago (how time flies) and I was ...erm ...a tad exuberant. I haven’t seen it in years.
Over beers years ago, a compadre in aerospace lamented, why we doing the F-22, why don't we just buy the 27's and or 29's and stick the Pratt F100 series engines in them and be done with it! Oh that is sooo heretic :-0...
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If the new Super Sukhois are primarily for the anti-ship role, do they still need AESA? I believe the AESA will gradually be retrofitted onto the older batches. What upgraded engines will the last 40+ use?
I think his GIB didn’t like the way he was driving.
The US Air Force found out about the Flanker’s capabilities first hand during an exercise with the Indians and their Su-30MKI’s. It was a wake up call.
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So it was super-cruise before super-cruise was cool.
I think the British Lightning made supercruise cool more than 50 years ago!!
Most of the talk of the new ‘batch’ seems to suggest an upgraded MKI variant as opposed to a SU-35. I think the Brahmos capability will not be for an anti-ship role alone, but also land-attack against reinforced targets and the like.
The folks at Mikoyan-Gurevich and at Sukhoi have been producing some beautiful aircraft....not to mention performance.
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