Once again the Russians come up with a winner.
YouTube - Su-30 Vectored Thrust

 

That is pretty amazing. Makes me wonder what our boys out at Dreamland got in the works.

 

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...n-fighter.html

 

Makes our versions of vectored thrust -- the Harrier and the Osprey -- look kind'a silly.

 

I see major problems with it. First it appears to be leaking red stuff from the wings, lots of it, probably nitro methane.
Second the damn thing can't fly in a straight line
and last who the hell wants a jet that goes backwards and seems to slow down and speed up in mid air. Must have a bad crankshaft position sensor and while I'm at it I like our wing better!

just kidding of course.

 

To my knowledge the Chinese are completing a licensed copy which they will improve and deploy. Memories of the Mig 21. Gary

 

Pink smoke? How gay is that?

"not that there's anything wrong with that"

 

new russian fighter - 08-08-2008 , 07:41 PM
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SU-30MK On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:34:09 -0800, MGEN Hank Stelling USAF Ret wrote: "This is for those of you who will understand how remarkable this really is. Any way you slice it, pretty impressive. Great camera work. This remarkable aircraft and its pilot demonstrate what I thought impossible for a high speed jet fighter. In the SU-30MK, Russian aviation has surpassed that of the US and its NATO allies. This truly impressive fighter can stall from high speed flight to stop in less than a second. It can fall back on its tail, without compressor stall, and go into a flat spin and recover in less than a minute. There is no aircraft in any country's inventory that could stand up to it in a dog fight." http://www.crazyaviation.com/movies/CA_SU-30.wmv videoI get sick watching it

John P

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FTroopChief

 

Holy **** that is incredible!

 

Orignial video pulled due to a copyright claim by Konstantin Khmelik

 

This jet's competition is the F-22 Raptor, the US's multi-role strike aircraft.

IIRC the F-22 has pitch-axis thrust vectoring, while the SU-30 has thrust vectoring of both pitch and yaw.

Unfortunately, most of the maneuverability being shown pales in comparison to the importance of EW, Stealth, and BVR weaponry.

 

We can use this word on here... most of forums wont let me use it.....oh well cool

ps why does this thread's title make me think of Sputnik???