There was no “re-rendering” – the crosshairs are exactly identical in both videos. If you can’t see what the actual difference is in the 2nd video, then you’re seriously thick.

It’s stabilized and thus also cropped, using YouTube’s own stabilization tool. This causes the crosshair not to be the centre point as YouTube’s algorithm focuses on stabilizing larger features, and it also causes some obvious “stabilization morphing” of the image, i.e. that somewhat unsettling angling effect.

Oh, and here’s another shot of the same Su-27 from the same March 2015 photo report TEEJ posted earlier:

Come on now hewasahero, you really think somebody painstakingly made an exact digital copy of this individual aircraft down to the tiniest little paint chip, even before there were any photos in the public domain showing its new paintjob? Because all public photos of RF-33740 available at the time the video was published were with the bort number 10 and lacked the red text on the intake saying “Grigoriy Rechkalov” (after the Soviet WW2 fighter ace).

If so, the fake could only have originated from an “insider” in Russia to begin with. So we go full circle it seems, not only are we all Russian trolls – the guys who faked it clearly are too! :highly_amused:

No, seriously. Get real.

Surely folding fins would be part of any space-constrained solution?

Yes… The izd. 760 and izd. 300 both have folding fins and reduced body diameter. The latter is somewhat reminiscent of the ASRAAM. They make the R-73 look bulky.

Hello,

We’re getting off-topic here. The purported ‘footage’ is still fake. It’s a composite of computer-generated content and actual video.

Several indicators in this Reddit thread…

http://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/2tiyb7/russian_su27_flanker_intercepts_p3_orion_very_dcs/

and here is the YouTube debunking again for you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzh2H6KjdTI

Whoever faked this failed to research several important details.

Thank you!

No… Just no…

By the way, here’s the image of the aircraft in question:

Yup, that’s it right there. Even the chipped paint on the fins is identical. The aircraft is registered as RF-33740 and it’s based in Chkalovsk, where it together with other Su-27s patrols the Baltic off Kaliningrad. Prior to 2014 it bore the bort number 10, now it’s 90 like in the Portuguese video. It also had some new decorations applied to it last year, and these can be seen in the video too.

As for the Portuguese P-3 in the Baltic, this is what the Portuguese Air Force itself says about it:
http://www.emfa.pt/www/noticia-736

There it’s clear as a day that the 601st squadron of the Portuguese Air Force operated from Šiauliai, Lithuania at the time, and they also explicitly state that they repeatedly monitored Russian aircraft in the Baltic:

Na zona de operações, foram identificados e classificados vários meios, aéreos e marítimos, de nacionalidade Russa, tendo sido os seus movimentos e operação monitorizados e reportados, contribuindo para a manutenção do panorama do Báltico.

And whaddya know – the 601st squadron operates the P-3C Orion:
http://www.emfa.pt/www/esquadra-43

So it all adds up. A Portuguese P-3C Orion was in the Baltics at the time, and the exact Flanker individual shown in the video was there at the time as well…

So, since it’s dead easy to rule out that the footage comes from “DCS” or any comparable simulator, and it’s easy to see that all peripheral, even highly obscure details about the involved parties add up completely we can quite readily conclude that it’s totally real.

The so called arguments for it being “fake” are highly contrived and frankly rather cringeworthy, and why do some people continue to stubbornly insist on it? I’m struggling to understand the point of this weird exercise.

The only unanswered question is who decided to leak this particular piece of footage and why, since it wasn’t officially published/endorsed by the Portuguese Air Force. But stranger things have happened for sure.

“Lavina” looks good, reminds me a bit of the Dokdo class with that tapered deck etc.

…But it’s a Krylov model. When was the last time any of their military designs actually made it to construction? I’m not overly initiated, but it seems to me like Severnoe is behind pretty much everything new that winds up in the navy these days whereas Krylov never seems to get anywhere with their fancy looking models. As sad as that is, since they do tend to look neat.

Hi,
I have a very simple question :
What is the difference between red radome 9M317 missile and white radome 9M317?

There are no red radome 9M317s.

A month later and still no follow-up that would’ve let me clarify with some wit? I’m disappointed. :p

The red things one sees on some missiles are protective caps with a conspicuous handle on top.

Hi,
I have a very simple question :
What is the difference between red radome 9M317 missile and white radome 9M317?

There are no red radome 9M317s.

It’s a shame we don’t see many more large Russian airliners, they’ve always had an imposing presence with elegant lines.

No market for them these days. The superior reputation and aftersale support of A+B means they rule the skies where they can, in Russia itself too these days. So what’s left, Cuba? And sure enough their needs are covered by a few Il-96, and that little speck of a customer hardly constitutes an incentive enough to develop and produce new biggies.

The (possibly) upcoming joint Sino-Russian long hauler might change that, as both are huge markets. But regardless it would still need to be fairly competitive even internationally because pure politics only get you that far (unless the respective governments decide to chip in and subsidize any economical disadvantages, or massive embargoes are imposed on both of them), and that’s hard to imagine to be honest.

But yeah, it is a bit of a shame because diversity is nice and they tend to look real good. But business is business.