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Flying the Flanker (Topgun)
Flight Global ^ | April 20, 2013 | Dave Majumdar

Posted on 04/20/2013 1:38:21 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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1 posted on 04/20/2013 1:38:21 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I think I would have an air-gasm every time I flew one of these.


2 posted on 04/20/2013 1:43:34 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (DoD civilian, retired Army and proud of my service.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

It’s a great plane, and I think U.S. aviators and pilots would make a big mistake in underestimating its capabilities.


3 posted on 04/20/2013 2:04:26 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Gotta admit it’s a great looking machine.


4 posted on 04/20/2013 2:11:38 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Bookmarked...


5 posted on 04/20/2013 2:14:07 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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!


6 posted on 04/20/2013 2:43:29 AM PDT by DemforBush (Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

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?


7 posted on 04/20/2013 3:21:38 AM PDT by IndianChief
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To: sukhoi-30mki
A blast from the past:

Russian Fighters for American Airforce/Navy: The only prudent solution!

8 posted on 04/20/2013 3:36:37 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: IndianChief; sukhoi-30mki
Sorry to barge in on your question to S30MKI, but I believe the 40 or so planes India is getting will still be SU-30MKIs that have been strengthened to carry the air launched Brahmos. Not SU-35s. However there is a likelihood they will be to the 'Super Sukhoi' standard, which should make them quite close to the 35. Better engines, and talk of an AESA radar.

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).

9 posted on 04/20/2013 3:43:39 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

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.


10 posted on 04/20/2013 3:45:51 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Oh boy, time for the nomex undees...

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...

11 posted on 04/20/2013 4:34:25 AM PDT by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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To: spetznaz

Thanks

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?


12 posted on 04/20/2013 5:31:38 AM PDT by IndianChief
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Do they still come in the soft top version?


13 posted on 04/20/2013 5:46:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

I think his GIB didn’t like the way he was driving.


14 posted on 04/20/2013 6:49:59 AM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Timber Rattler

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.


15 posted on 04/20/2013 6:52:08 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: zot

sukhoi-30 aircraft ping


16 posted on 04/20/2013 7:29:32 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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"I take it out of burner and I'm just at mil power and the speed dropped down to--I was still supersonic,"

So it was super-cruise before super-cruise was cool.

17 posted on 04/20/2013 12:55:58 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: hattend

I think the British Lightning made supercruise cool more than 50 years ago!!


18 posted on 04/20/2013 1:51:48 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: IndianChief

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.


19 posted on 04/20/2013 1:56:49 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The folks at Mikoyan-Gurevich and at Sukhoi have been producing some beautiful aircraft....not to mention performance.


20 posted on 04/20/2013 1:58:43 PM PDT by stboz
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