Russian engineer is very difficult to convince officials to allocate money for the project, which is not in NATO. This could very rarely, such as Rostislav Alexeyev, for the construction of WIG.
However, the Russian long been engaged in “low signature” ships. Photos 1976
There were also other masters in this field in Russia…and a finn already in 1932…engineer Toivo Kaario.
An excellent example which it shows that the combat enviroment, the quality of pilots and the tactics can till the balance into the opposite direction.
Till 1943 Russian built fighters suffer from a total lack of radios nearly (limited to leaders only) or reliable ones even behind that year. Going for the leading Russian fighter at first, the unit lost all coordination/control and its bigger numbers did not work in their favor any longer.
And the source of this please ?
The Buffaloes were little by little switched to Me-109 G-2 and G-6s in the top squadrons.
Finns scored at best 2 x Airacobra a day even in 1944 with a Morane MS 406.
An Airacobra was scored even with a biplane ( warbooty I-15 ).
Last kill with any AC was Buffalo against german luftwaffe in 1945 IIRC.
There were no YAK-3s in finnish skies since the armistice was made in 1944. La-5 was a match for an Me-109 G.
But certainly the 44/1 and 33/1 kill ratios with Fiat G.50 and Buffaloes were due to the fact that opponent were flying I-16s and I-15 ( and Chaikas etc ) etc with very little experience.
So flying coffins for the russians were possibly just I-15 based planes and a finn scored an Airacobra with such machine ( I-153 below ).
I’d say there is luck involved too and strong will to defend.
Locheed folks with Kelly Johnson have already tested “Velociraptor” up to MACH 3.5…and seemed pretty happy about it…5 metric tonne ship went beyond Mach 3 at 6.67 kN force !
I have been modelling my ships flight caracteristic in my head for nothing.
I think only a handful countries can afford a few starships with DE,
the rest will keep flying old fighters if operational cost allows it,
and replace with UCAV & GBAD.
Suffice to say i’m not thrilled.
This is why I suggest to decrease the size and start real drag reduction studies at all intitutes that have able mathematicians to back it up with striking clever numbers.
:rolleyes:
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