I was talking about th superbug V J10. Even su30+ would struggle against the superbug because of the shorter range of the R77 compared to latest blk AMRAAMs. Superbug might have slightly shorter detection range, but its still far more then enough for it to be able to use the full range envolope of its AMRAAMs against designs like the flanker.

Bvr, 1 on 1, The su30+ can chose to use an R-27 instead of R-77 as first missile because of better range on the R-27. Now, the R-27 is not a fire and forget wepon, but it will do its job when no other planes interupt!

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/aa-10-specs.htm

Forgot to mention that it is the R-27 wich is the standard A to A misile of the su family.

manufacture is already given as the weight figure. u can judge this even from F-18E weight that there method of calculating.
F-18E is carrier aircraft so as Rafale. how much weight difference is there between land and carrier version of Rafale. modern materials have this effect on weight reduction.
maximum combat radius can be true with external fuel tanks and CFT but they didnot mention any loads.

Don’t forget that the Rafale is a eurocanard, so the carrier version of rafale does not have folding wings, and that alone save weight for over 1000kg
I even read on another forum that they saved 2000 kg with no folding wings, but are not so shure about those numbers!
But anyway, Rafale land and carrier version would not have that much difrence as the SH if an land version had existed.

quote “So even the very latest missiles have no ability to predict your flightpath? I find this hard to believe, considering other systems are able to do this, e.g. CIWS.
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No, the missile can’t, and it have nothing to do with the seeker, it has to do with the program of the missile. example, a second pilot in the tail of the first fighter, can se on the fighter he is following to a certain degree what manouver he is going to make, he can se it on the flaps, brakes and all that that make a plane manouver, so even before his sensors tell him that the plane change cours, the pilot will know, and do a wery good estimate about wich and where the first plane are going… and you will have a hard time to get an experienced fighter pilot to always follow you head on in manouvers… because that is a certain way to loose the fight. Because of this, a fighterplane have always a chance to evade even the most modern missile with the most advanced censors that exist of today, or tomorrow.. The new generations of fighters have also much more advanced sensors, so that they know when to start evading missiles, so that they have a good chanse to not get hit.
In my opinion, when you start to make missiles with supercomputers, with prossesing powers so high that the missile can reckognise what is moving on the plane, and because of that predict what course the plane will take, then you will have a missile that will have a good garantert hit prosentage. But like I said, that only my opinion…

From what I heard when I was in the military, the hokum is the best chopper, It can take a lot of damage, because of no need for tail rotor, but it is also a much more expensive solution, so for mass production, the havoc is more than suficient. The rusians them self says it can take a lot more damage than the apache, but thats maybe a little propaganda 🙂

Which of the mentioned features was ever demonstrated? For example did the JSF claim to be the first to achieve short take-off, supersonic flight and vertical landing in one mission.

If I remeber correctly, the YAK141 program was stopped before the test of all this 3 tests in same mission. 🙁

When the orginal program of yak 141 was stopped, I belive the YAk-141 had not gone supersonic… can someone confirm this?