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Newly captured photo shows Russia's new badass shark stealth fighter
A new photo captured by Artyom Anikeev shows Russia's new Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter—America's F-22 Raptor's nemesis. According to The Aviationist, its new camouflage—inspired by a typical white tip Red Sea's shark—will make it look "as a rhomboidal shaped aircraft, smaller than the actual airplane" from a distance. (sploid.gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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You obviously haven't met any or seen them fly, I have, they're good, damned good in their own equipment.
Never underestimate your opponent.
Never underestimate your opponent.
What makes you say that? What is it about being born in Russia that makes one less likely to be able to fly an airplane competently?
And saying that an airplane's design doesn't matter is foolish. Oh, wait. Who am I talking to?
And saying that an airplane's design doesn't matter is foolish. Oh, wait. Who am I talking to?
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heck we can barely afford to train like US pilots...lol
The Russians build designs to suit THEIR needs and do it at less cost (with fewer bells & whistles) than we do then sell slightly "dumbed down" versions to offset the cost and increase the numbers of the "home design" they buy for themselves.
The PAK_FA design is being developed as an Air Superiority Fighter with secondary multi mission capabilities similar to the F-22, the F-35 is a multi role design that can handle itself in the air to air role but it is not now and never was intended to be an Air Superiority fighter.
One thing you can be sure of, whatever version of the PAK-FA design is chosen and goes into production, it will be a potent fighter and you can bet they'll build a lot more than 188 of them unlike the F-22.
And you can say what you like about unmanned aircraft, but manned aircraft are going to be around for a long long time to come.
The (risk averse) US has a fascination with UAVs, but most of the rest of the world still believes in 2 eyes looking out of a cockpit.
BTW, the Russians use a 3D (round) type of Trust Vectoring nozzle instead of the rectangular one used on the F-22, the F-35 does not have T.V. per se, the F-35B uses a downward deflecting nozzle for STO/VTOL operations.