Well, letting aside that the guy is obsessed with scores of Chinese Flankers and Tu 160(!) attacking Australia, he really was in the cockpit of a SuperHorror, and it seems that the Boeing pilot gave him the stick for a few minutes. I don’t know if this means that he really flown the thing… http://www.sci.fi/~fta/aviat-5.htm

… the F-16 has been shot down and in some wars has failed to kill in air to air combat… [/B]

???

The F 16 achieved a 71:0 kill ratio in A-A: http://www.codeonemagazine.com/combatAir/combat/index.html

1. an engine that “flew” (I presume that ” ” mean that it “flew” on a testbench :p) only 30 hours can not be used on anything yet.
2. Is there a Russian “aircraft of the fifth generation” flying around and no one is yet aware of?:diablo:

…there is no Russian engine that can not compete with an american engine …

Young man, I can only agree with you. After all, that’s exactly what I’ve said: the newest Russian engine (in testbed stage in 2007) can at last compete with two engines introduced by US in mid ’80 (and powering by now thousands of frontline fighters)…:D

Say that to Eugeny Frolov or Victor Pugachev yes they will remind you a few things they invented

??? Regarding engines???:eek:

MiG 23, maybe my English is not so great, so I try to reformulate: neither Iraq nor Serbia were less capable than NV to fight back US. The fact that USSR was no longer (actually in Feb. 1991 it still was) has nothing to do with the subject. After all USSR did not participate in the Vietnam War. It only delivered fighters and SAMs to NV and trained its pilots and ground personel. Exactly what they did for Iraq and Serbia.

The whole point Aurcov is in 2007 probable the Russians have radars and SAMs that can kill the F-22 and aircraft that are perhaps more agile than the F-22, because the MiG-29OVT is even more agile than the Su-37.

Is it probable that China might have similar technology yes because they are also building their F-22 equivalent XXJ jianji

Any ground radar could pick the F 22, if this one is at 20-30 km, and of course, a well guided SAM can hit a raptor. So, what’s your point?

As for Russians having aircraft more agile than the f 22–no, they don’t. Russian AF does not operate a single TVC aircraft. When you will learn the differnce between a prototype and an operational aircraft, ley me know. As for the Chinese XXJ, as well as the Russian PAK FA they are probably in the stage known as “artist concept”:) . Which mean the first flight of the first prototype could be in 10 years, in the best situation (of course, if they really mean to build something better than the f 22).

1. About the F 22 being too slow in high AoA manevers-I think they do it deliberately to show the abilities of the plane. For rapid maneuvers, look at the very first movement in the video that started this thread. That’s an abrupt (>70 deg/sec) pitch.

2. No doubt, among the operational planes the MKI could be at parity, if not better in terms of pure maneuvrability. However, at the F 22 the TVC is integrated into FCS. This would allow the pilot to concentrate less to flying the plane, and more to fighting. I don’t know if the same applies to the MKI. Any reliable info about this?

Maybe they show the civilian (contractors) helo.