notice how at the end he had nothing good to say about the F-35….. :diablo:

Its pretty clear from this that one on one the Flanker will kill the F-15 more often than not.

Why not talk about the Su-35 if we are talking about the F-22? Both are the future of their respective countries until 2020.

the thing supposedly has some sort of new ROV and other electronic goodies. The boat itself is a glorified piece of slow poorly put together (the skin looks like it was put on with hammers) junk, but its the little goodies on board that account for all the delay. Considering the kit out of older soviet minesweepers the Zakharin is a generational leap.

there is a new UGST-M variant out there with a new powerplant and some quieting improvements, but thats about it.

I personally question the assumption the newer Russian long range air to air missiles are really only meant for AWACS killing. The K-172 shown in 1993 was based on the Buk SAM which certainly has proven in Georgia that it can down fighters like the Su-24 and 25 just fine. The new redesigned missile is believed to be superior to the old Buk based missile. The real benefit of such a missile is the size of the seeker. Again LO targets every millimeter of seeker surface area is crucial. A smarter, more powerful, seeker is more important than the ability to turn an extra half g or an extra mach in speed.

I came here to discuss those exact two pics. This forum never disappoints, a real treasure. Thank you SOC for confirming what I though. 😀

su-35 can supercruise. In tests it supercruised in clean config at mach 1.1 and the pilot in his interview said it could have gone faster but since they are still in the early part of test flights we was not allowed to accelerate to full speed.

http://pilot.strizhi.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/img_6113_sm.jpg

is this the rear facing radar or what? Pilot.strizhi has new pics! 🙂