Don’t forget that R-33S and Zaslon-A were made because of Tolkachev’s defection. They were rushed into production, also. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was many (as in hundreds) of them.

The original R-37 beat that record in early 90’s. 228 km iirc.

As far as I recall, that was R-33S, upgraded variant that was forced into production after Tolkachev’s case came up. R-37 had a test in 1994 where mid-course updates were provided by Su-30 flying around the middle of the path between MiG-31M and target drone. Zaslon-M wasn’t obviously fully ready.

Modern CPUs are in no other way programmed than legacy ones. Each runs on it’s instruction set with clear reflection in appropriate assembly syntax. You may use a higher level language compiler but that doesn’t mean modern military CPUs run Ada.
Your remarks about integer and otherwise number precision are correct. Apart from that, it’s just that CPUs today have multiplied FPU and I/O performance per watt by many times.

The post seems like automatic translation from Chinese to English.

We heard all the same drivel about the FSW Flanker that Sukhoi made a decade or so ago and nothing came of it. Don’t get your hopes up. 🙂

Sukhoi never made any claims of that sort, regarding S-37.
Journalists write their own bull****, you can’t expect Sukhoi / VVS / anyone to stop them.

Berkut was a tech demonstrator, it receieved initial funding for tech demonstrator, not for 5th gen prototype R&D. Sukhoi “tried” to sell it in ’90s because of funding shortage, they never seriously approached any foreign country and they knew VVS is not going to buy them. So it was a more of “what the hell, nothing to lose” kind of try than something serious.

BTW, T-50 is not stealth right now, not because of your damned compressor blades, but because of all the test gear hooked onto it. No, Sukhoi doesn’t know that compressors have a huge RCS and can be used as identification pattern. Why don’t you send them an email?

Why is single-axis vector thruster called 2D, and dual axis 3D? Looks like they both have one surplus dimension in naming 😉

Eg, for in-service aircraft; F-22 and Su-30MKI have TVC, while Su-35S has 2D TVC.

@Privateer454, don’t bother with this Steve guy. He has absolutely no idea about the subject, classic troll.

Original MiG-29’s BVR doctrine was still tied to GCI that would give directions where to look and where to shoot. Inside WVR, it reduced pilot’s workload via SCHLEM and R-73 cueuing.