Posted on 09/03/2006 7:51:28 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Convenient, even if on the incoming run they would be more detectable.
I got to see their first public showing in Chicago last year; just got lucky on the timing. Beautiful planes.
The new SU's are every bit as good as the F-15, which is after all a late 1960s design. Even the F-16 and F-18 are early '70s designs. I remember the flyoff between the YF-16 and YF-17 (predecessor to the F-18). The threat evolves, your systems must do so as well.
Wasn't the F-15 C/D line closed a long while ago???F-15Es are still being built for export orders,none for the USAF.
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