This would be fun.

[John Baker]

This was sent to me. I am not the author.

John



Very cool!



Take a look at the video with the sound up..


The red smoke coming from the wingtips is only there to demonstrate to spectators on the ground the direction the plane is actually moving through the air. Normally the smoke wouldn't be there. Obviously, when the smoke is streaming behind, the airplane is moving fast forward and when the airplane is engulfed in smoke, it means the airplane is almost stopped in mid-air.


The maneuverability of this plane is incredible. This plane would be nearly impossible to defeat in a dogfight.


Russia may now have the #1 fighter plane in the world... SU-301- Vectored Thrust with Canards...


As you watch this airplane, look at the canards moving along side of, and just below the canopy rail. The "canards" are the small wings forward of the main wings.


This video is of an in-flight demonstration flown by the Russian's-30MK fighter aircraft. The fighter can stall from high speed, stopping forward motion in seconds. (full stall).


Then it demonstrates an ability to descend tail first without causing a compressor stall. It can also recover from a flat spin in less than a minute. These maneuver capabilities don't exist in any other aircraft in the world today..


Friends worked with advanced aircraft flight control systems and concepts for many years as an extension of stability control and means of control. Canards and vectored thrust were among many concepts examined to extend our fighter aircraft performance.


Neither our current or next generation aircraft now poised for funding & production can in any way match the performance of this Russian aircraft. This aircraft is of concern to U.S and NATO planners. We don't know which nations will soon be flying the SU-30MK, hopefully China isn't one of them.


Somehow the bankrupt Russian aircraft industry has out-produced our complex politically tainted aerospace industry with this technological marvel. Scratch any ideas of close-in air-to-air combat with this aircraft in the future.
An great domonstration of maneurability which also says much regarding engine design (managing the gyroscopic stresses,... within the rotating parts (compressor. turbines,...) and of course the airframe.
The way things are going, maybe the U.S. can borrow money from the Chinese so as to purchase some of the SU-301s from Russia - but then the interest might be very high...

RCL
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[PilotAlan]

OK. While the Sukhoi flight is doing backflips, the F22 that they don't know is there will be rippling AMRAAMs into them.

And after seeing the F22 slow speed and high-alpha demos, I'd take the F22 against the Sukhoi any day.

 

[Jack Spectre]

OK. While the Sukhoi flight is doing backflips, the F22 that they don't know is there will be rippling AMRAAMs into them.

And after seeing the F22 slow speed and high-alpha demos, I'd take the F22 against the Sukhoi any day.

Amen to that. I saw the F22 at St. Cloud, Minnesota last year and that pilot did things with that airplane that I didn't know were possible. Add that to the fact that we have 30 years of stealth technology that has been battle tested...while Russia has had none to send into battle.

There's a reason that the Russian order of battle relies heavily on nuclear rocket forces. There's no way they could achieve and maintain conventional air superiority over US air power in any theater.