A “dogfight” is a worst case only. When the opponents involved made terrible mistakes. “Dogfights” are limited to exercises only to built up confidence in the own aircraft and to learn to overcome such worst conditions.
All the US units and some other doing such DACT training against GAF MiG-29s f.e. did just learn to avoid an infight under adverse conditions, when the outcome is unpredictable always. Just some manouver from a favorable position or with mutual support or to disengage at all.

You and your usual garbage

In a total war ,with both sides with ECM support your ‘worst condition’ is the most likely

Dogfighting just to build up confidence……nice gem

Unless the aircraft does have any real energy advantage, it could avoid dogfighting ruling the combat…but even the mythical F22 don’t have such superiority over 4thgen planes,the only one to have such advantage is the mig-25/31…

3,2,1 …for the raptor’s fanbase crying

F-16’s been doing that since the 70s.

Neither flaps or ailerons are ‘adaptive’ as far i recall

Adaptive wing is to configure all the wing controls to the best performance, and to make all of them to work together

And i doubt the 22 does have this capability, probably the F35, but then i have never heard about it.

Well the aft RF signature can vary with the RF band and can spike accordingly , it is quite obvious that the aft portion ,lower fuselage and nozzle is quite conventional like any Su-3x fighter , compare that to the careful LO shaping observed on forward fuselage wing ,engine intake S Duct,wings and upper fuselage.

No matter what Sukhoi claims laws of Physics works the same for every one , they just traded Aft stealth and in effect all aspect stealth to gain extreme agility using 3D TVC and Conventional control surfaces.

So its just the question of why Sukhoi thought or thinks Super Agility is functionally more important than all aspect stealth .

Considering that they did a great job with shaping for frontal LO , they could have done the same for aft and lower fuselage and could have trade super agility , well only time will tell us once we see the 3 new PAK-FA prototypes and what enhancement on all aspect LO that would turn out to be.

HINT: The F22 is a interceptor, a plane originally designed for air superiority, it was never meant to sneak in a SAM network, the one designed for strike missions is the F-35

Guess which one has rounded exhaust :rolleyes:

I may be wrong,but that hexagone in the nose is probably the IRST room??

Since i don’t see it, neither seems to be dissambled, i mean, the IRST room that flew in the first flight did have other location, i don’t see any kind of instalation on that place

New pictures at last, thanks

30th July 1970 clash did show an air-combat between first hand pilots with top-end equipment and similar numbers. One side had the tactical surprise, when the other fought within its CGI-net at home. 😉

Because these 60’s vintage radars already knew where the others were and all them had link16 to coordinate the fighting…heck not even with nowadays capabilities one can do it w/o,ground command.

Stop reading garbage

Sure you will reply with some crap like ‘claims aside tactics are everything blah blah blah” no seriously…you know nothing.

A little funny

I have not read any single complain from the Mig’s AESA

While were complains for the F18 Aesa

Either way, just pointing it out…no evidence for the supossed lack of performance for this ‘primitive’ radar…still people repeat it as it would be a fact..

sferrin,flex and martinez,can you please continue the 9-11 topic in the general board?

The T-50 does have more interesting secrets….

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Anyways, one can see that the rhomboid ‘hatch’ from the sides of the T50’s nose doesn’t have the same color of the rest of the airframe 🙂

This is a different material, most likely fiberglass 🙂 for the radar arrays,but the nosecone is just painted as the rest of the airframe 🙂

I’m clueless 🙂