The latest Su-30SM two-seat fighters ordered for the Russian air force are fitted with vectoring nozzles, and can be used for training as well as combat. (UAC photo)
The latest Su-30SM two-seat fighters ordered for the Russian air force are fitted with vectoring nozzles, and can be used for training as well as combat. (UAC photo)
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The Flanker may well be the best, and most versatile, fighter design ever to come out of the former Soviet Union/Russia. Fast, agile, well-armed, and sophisticated. Not Raptor sophisticated, but definitely impressive, especially with western or Israeli electronics and avionics. IIRC, they’ve even used the Flanker as the basis for the replacement of the SU-24 Fighter/Bomber.
It boasts a so-called “open architecture”, making it relatively easy to add new systems in the basic electronic equipment and to use advanced guided weapons (supplied by different manufacturers).
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Maybe that means ...
1) a new motherboard/CPU/RAM and the internal systems run faster
2) it runs Linux with Pre-Emptive threading
3) I can compile new apps with gcc
Is United Aircraft Corporation related in any way to the United Technologies Corporation. UAC “has a location” in East Hartford, CT, and UTC’s HQ is in Hartford, CT. If they are connected, what is a major American defense contractor (which owns, inter alia, Sikorsky Helicopter and Pratt & Whitney) doing making fighter planes for the Russians who regularly supply our enemies? Even if not connected on the corporate level, why do we tolerate a Russian military contractor on our soil?