I’m not a pilot, and the Air Force is probably happy about that, but isn’t the opening on the engine on the left wider than the engine on the right? Will that make it spin in circles to the right?
There is also some sort of thingy on the nosegear.
The nozzles expand and contract based on the thrust settings...
It will make it spin to the left. It is, after all, a Soviet era aircraft.
If I remember correctly, the right side jet exhaust reaches mach1 at the throat. If the throat is fixated, any increase in pressure - due to increase in power driving the compressor - would cause the compressor to stall because air cannot technicaly go faster than itself (ie. the speed of sound). So what you do is perform a sort of “swallowing extra compression” out. The throat is basicaly moved forward and an outward exhaust cone is formed after it. The air then moves supersonic in that zone, as it is pushed out by the side walls of the exhaust cone, much like when a gun transforms the reserve or extra pressure into kinetic energy. The air loses its compression and decompression wave like behavior, it becomes completely kinetic and the air particles become more like individual bullets.