Here's some info A buddy of mine sent:
Just in case anybody wonders why we continue to spend gazillions of dollars to develop better weapons, this is why. You can bet China has something they are hiding and working on too.
video SU-30MK Russian Fighter
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. Anyway 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
Here is one response received to this:
Obviously computer technology enables many of the advances in aviation capabilities today, but this aircraft is the only one with fully articulated canards forward of the main wing. They have also incorporated an ability to generate by-pass airflow in the wings when they are presented with reverse aerodynamic forces. It is the presence of these features that enable the computer to create the dissimilar airflow over the main wings and inside each engine to perform many of these maneuvers.
Recall of comments by Putin and others in the Russian defense forces lead me to believe that they have, not only a next generation stealth air fleet, but radar systems to CONTROL them which means ability to DETECT others.
Just in case anybody wonders why we continue to spend gazillions of dollars to develop better weapons, this is why. You can bet China has something they are hiding and working on too.
video SU-30MK Russian Fighter
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. Anyway 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
Here is one response received to this:
Obviously computer technology enables many of the advances in aviation capabilities today, but this aircraft is the only one with fully articulated canards forward of the main wing. They have also incorporated an ability to generate by-pass airflow in the wings when they are presented with reverse aerodynamic forces. It is the presence of these features that enable the computer to create the dissimilar airflow over the main wings and inside each engine to perform many of these maneuvers.
Recall of comments by Putin and others in the Russian defense forces lead me to believe that they have, not only a next generation stealth air fleet, but radar systems to CONTROL them which means ability to DETECT others.
