has poor wing loading,limited G handling
Wing loading comparisons are irrelevance without knowing lift coefficient. F-35 has also been tested to 9.9G
poor daytime visibility,limited internal weapons
F-35 uses similar canopy design as PAK-FA and it has DAS that provide 360 degrees visibility
extended internal carry is coming too
The F-35 program office is looking at adding capacity for another AIM-120 AMRAAM radar-guided air-to-air missile in each of the jet’s two weapons bays, increasing internal—and thus stealthy—missile loadout by 50 percent, program director Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan said March 22. Speaking with reporters after his speech at a McAleese/Credit Suisse conference in Washington, D.C., Bogdan said, “There is potential … to add a third missile on each side.” The upgrade would likely be part of the Block IV program of F-35 enhancements, but “that’s something I know the services and all the partners” are interested in. Bogdan said this would not require some special version of AMRAAM, but “the same AMRAAM missiles that we carry today, just an extra one; probably on the weapons bay door.” The F-35 can carry two AMRAAMs in each bay now, or a mix of AMRAAMs and Joint Direct Attack Munitions internally.
huge IR footprint
F-35 has high bypass engine, nozzle with vanes for cooling air ,the nacelle bay has 2 cooling scopes
The serrated nozzle help cut down the exhaust’s plume length
@Marcellogo
Said so. the F-15E is a strike plane itself, with CFT on its performances get a serious degradation when compared to a clean F-15D, more drag, way less reduced maximum speed (I think that something have been posted about it being limited to M 1,6/1,7 with them on), a way greater wing load ratio and so on.
Now, I have never heard of an F-15E going around without its CFT, also because their A2G pylons are connected to them, so I just assume that even in those exercises it went in its standard configuration.
Obviously, if someone has proof of the contrary, absolutely welcomed.
F-15E PW229 with CFT, 4 AIM-9 and 4 AIM-7 is limited to Mach 2
F-15E PW229 with CFT, 4 AIM-9 , 12 MK-82 is limited to Mach 1.7
Still, even a F-15C has several issues in confronting with a baseline Flanker when it came to aerial combat and surely the Su-35 is just another league when compared to a Su-27 also, not just to American 4 gen hardware.
IMHO even for a Typhoon i.e. the best Western 4,5 gen planes when it came to aerial combat would have a very hard task to cope with the 3D TVC ecquipped Su-35S, so let’s image a standard configuration F-15E.
baseline F-15 vesus baseline Su-27 then Su-27 beat it in instataneous turn rate, sustain turn rate of two aircraft are similar, F-15 accelerate better.
Su-35 is a heavier Su-27 with stronger engine , radar and 3D TVC, F-15E is a heavier baseline F-15 with strengthen structure to be able to pull 9G and also better engine, radar. So pitting them against each others will have similar result.
About the radar: someone has data about of the AN/APG-82 or almost of the An/APG_79 on whose processor it is based on?
Because I have tried and found none.
So, given that we have the ones about the Irbis we could made a precise comparison between them, not just say that one is better than the other just because have a different type of antenna.
AESA is better than PESA. Unless you have any evidence that some unique characteristic of irbis-e is much better than Apg-82, it safe to say that F-15E has better radar. Have i mentioned that F-15E had AWACs and air defense support ?
You mean against a 4,5 (or 5) gen plane?
The sheer lack of suicidal intention: this is precisely their own home turf, even an underpowered F/A-18 would trash it in this game.
Acceleration, climb ability of F-15 series has always been extremely good. F-18 would not trash it in vertical fight neither will Su-35
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