The MiG-25 had a very good endurance and range at slower speeds, it’s flying fuel tank after all, but it still wouldn’t have had the range to accompany a Tu-95 on a long-range strategic strike mission.

He was buzzed by MiG-23s multiple times.

Tony is still correct, the MiGs didn’t challenge Rust in the Cessna.

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2802599.html

So, Indonesia buying 11 Su-35 for 1.14 billion USD. Half of the payment will be in goods.

100 million USD apiece – is that the flyaway cost, or does it include training, spares and support?

Msphere said that each Su-35 was going to sell for 28-30 million USD – how wrong he was…:rolleyes:

Sad news. The first chief-commander of RuAF, General of the Army Petr Deinekin, has passed away today at the age of 79.((

R.I.P. to this man who was in the head of RuAF in the most hard and grim times in its history.

I remember him. As C-in-C he paid a visit to the USAF in the US in the early Nineties and flew the B-1B. RIP.

Are we talking ferry range on internal fuel, i.e. empty/clean hi-hi-hi and no allowance for combat? 3700km for the F-35 does seem a bit optimistic in that scenario, but not to a degree that it can be dismissed out of hand. Bear in mind that on such a mission Su-35S range is quoted as 3600km, and the F-35 carries a comparable (possibly slightly less, depending on what empty weight figure you consider plausible for the Su-35) amount of fuel per unit empty weight and slightly more per unit SLS thrust…

Drag might work against it, but in subsonic cruise I don’t see why the F-35 would be worse than a conventional fighter.

According to the RAF, ferry range for the Typhoon is 5,382 km with 4 drops, although a normal figure is 3,790 km with 3 tanks

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/raf/listings/l0028.html

A similar figure is given for the Rafale.

So 3,700 km should be possible for the F-35 on internal fuel only.

“Prospective” is a key word – Scar can you think of an ASIC code word for the Su-57 that translates as prospective beginning with the letter “F” ?

The choice of ASIC code seems to be a completely random process – they usually choose the weirdest words: Faggöt, Fresco, Farmer, Fishbed, etc. Do Russian aircraft still receive ASIC codes today – and who uses them?

I do not believe, I check. Range T-50 is calculated by me

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Did you create that Exel file, Paralay?

Have you flown all those aircraft, or worked on them in any way…?:confused:

It does.. the same 128×128 FPA made by Raytheon. That would indicate the same problems with flares.. What makes the AIM-132 superior is not the seeker, but use of 6 and half inch rocket motor instead of the classic 5 inch one, which gives the ASRAAM more thrust, higher speed and longer range. Incidentally, by using the ASRAAM you could fire from much longer distance, potentially render yourself completely undetected. The SyAAF pilot would not even consider using flares before being hit by something coming out of nowhere.

The maximum range of short-range missiles is probably irrelevant if you’ve got AMRAAMs with you. Range of the missile was never a problem in most short-range engagements, certainly true in this particular case against the Syrian air force.