The Soviet Fighter Built to Dominate the Skies | SU-27 Flanker
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2025
- Discover the story behind the Su-27, the Soviet Union's iconic air superiority fighter. Designed to overcome the MiG-25's flaws and counter the West's top jets, the Su-27 became a symbol of Soviet engineering excellence, combining speed, agility, and advanced technology to dominate the skies.
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the plane is similar to the f 14, even the air intake placements and the angling of those air intakes are similar, but with some differences (of course beside the difference in geometric wings in the f14), in favor of the Sukhoi, especially in improving the aerodynamic performance to enhance the maneuverability, the agility and the flying characteristics of the plane compared with the f14...
the plane generally is not a bad with reasonable market share especially at super and regional powers air forces Russian VVS, the PLAAF, VPA AF,...etc although the extended family of the flankers had suffered heavily during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine in away that effected its reputation in the international market, in my opinion the problems in :
1-the outdated avionics, especially the PESA radar, despite being very capable and potent during the closing stages of the cold war, but still considered obsolete for modern era combat requirements, while the (ols) systems with limited range and capabilities compared to its competitors, 2- the strength of the structure, there is always a trade-off or equation between weight, agility, and maintaining the ability to maneuver, Increasing the weight means increasing the rigidity of the structure, while the consistency of the various parts of the plane depends on the standards of manufacturing and used materials for contacting the pieces and parts of the plane to ensure the durability and the survivability of
worth noting some Su-34 tactical bomber planes were shot down in Ukrainian theaters of operations by man portable air defense systems (MANPADS), In the 21st century, a tactical bomber which supposed to have better armor than other variants like the multi roles or the air superiority fighter aircraft's, in addition to well thought and carefully designed engines, and critical compounds to enhance the survivability of the plane when hits by enemy fire, this huge war birds were not able to survive the warheads of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, weighing 3kg, and both pilots had to eject from the burning plane...
3- the lacking of missiles approach warning receiver (mawr) this will limiting the tactical situation awareness of the pilot against wide spectrum of air2air missiles like the new generation air2air missiles with autonomous guidance systems like air2air missiles with active guided seekers equipped with AESA radar antenna, the passive homing air2air missiles, and the latest the older infrared guided air2air missiles...
again the plane is superior plane especially the latest variants like the SU-35/SU-30 mk2, but it needs heavy and comprehensive modernizing, from redesigning the structure, reducing the radar signature by wide utilization of composite materials, equipping it with new avionics especially new AESA radar, where they need to make good use of the nose size to accommodate radar system with large antenna dish, in addition to make use of the large structure (which gives the plane large radar signature) to enhance the combat capabilities of the plane and thus improve the survivability by equipping the large plane with modern combat and combat support devices and compounds, like modern fire control computer, management computer, full sets of ECM/ ECCM/ ESM, data link beside reduce the burden on the pilots through the utilization of AI...
thanks for the briefing! ❤
ah yes totally not russian propaganda
wdym? its pro westren frfr
It's ironic people in the west talk about Russian propaganda...when you people have banned Russia completely from the rest of the world. World media is entirely western. Academia is entirely western. Geopolitically the west dominates the world.
But some how you think that Russians are the one who's are spreading the propoganda.
Ahhhh yes the Su-27 Wanker...1968 American technology, produced by Russia in 1988 and they still think it is relevant in 2025....and their newest fighter...the Su-57 Melon...can't even compete with the 30 year old Raptor! How pathetic!
Have you ever noticed the Wanker looks kinda like a twin engined F-16...it's really funny...back in 1968, General Dynamics designed a twin engined, twin tailed F-16 and submitted it for the F-15 Project....then like 18-20 years later...this comes out....hmm.? It looked better when GD designed it originally, because it didn't look like the front end had Erectile Dysfunction in flight.
f-22 is always in middle east against 100yr old f-5 and f-4 phantoms mostly! which wont make f-22 superior. its like 5th gen vs 2nd gen jets. go fight the real enemy then we see who is better and who is not. 😂😂