blow to all those, to highlight the official below 9 G stress limit of the early F-15s, not knowing that the Flanker has similar limitations

ohhh, man im sure that if the su27 would only have max operative 8gs, that would be very,very, very public, those are pilots recomendations for secutity and to maintain more service-hours to the airframes

phantom,which were the causes of such problems???

well, open in the post reply page search for a bos of “additional options”, then click the button “manage atachment”, will appear other window, you must know wheres the image, then clik upload, and post

ahhhh…butterfly tails…. well the problem of such controls is that arent very effective, horizontal tail (HT) is very,very important in the stability at maneuvres, replacing HT with movable tails could induce some problems at high AoA or turn, but that also depends on other factors, i prefer an more conventional stealh flanker, but we are just speculating…

If one considers the F/A 22 to be a stealthed F15 (consider the general configuration with fuselage canted to form a diamond and intakes canted) in concept, why wouldn’t Sukhoi build a stealthed Flanker, ie something akin to the YF 23?

thats an very good and sense point, think that the probability to reach to such configuration (stealth flanker) will be very influenced with costs and market price, the main design problem could be the internal bay

butterfly tails???, maybe i know about that with other name, please can you explain me??

the problem here is ,theres LF airborne radars in development???, i think that with nowdays electronics and algoritms theres a capacity to put in service an LF radar with fire control, for aproximate position, with active MF missiles radar skeeker that works better in shot distances (an iterative process), but the reality is that the stealth features of the f22 are very over-rated.

bistatic concepts that are used in passive tactics with Sa6 and Sa10, makes truly stealth aircraft vulnerable