A thought & an oft repeated joke: A F-22 does not fight alone. What you need is An AWAC, A refueller, 2-4 F-22's to defend these two, and 4-8 F-22's to really fight.Again, all F-22 "rest" for 20-30 hrs after 1 hr flight A pair of Su-30 go for the awac or the refueller, they have nowhere to run. For Su 30 there is no such inhibition - they have much better fuel load, range & are independent The joke : US & Russia defense bosses met, where US boss started taunting the Russian with the F-22. Russian replied : F-22 - made by lowest bidder seeking maximum profit. Su-30 - made by Scientist & Engineers under threat of their lives Which is better?
Jeez, all this jingo-patriotic nonsense about a piece of art that has an American plane being defeated! The artist is allowed to represent what he wants (and nice work, BTW...) and the scenario is completely plausible - in a dogfight the Sukhoi's chances are excellent.
Of course, as of this date, the only way an SU-30 could attack and destroy an F-22 is to hit it on the ground, as the whole fleet is grounded indefinitely since May 6, 2011...
but even though the SU-30 is more maneuverable F-22 the F-22 with long range radar would wipe the SU-30 out the sky. and even if a dogfight happens than the f-22 with it's new gun site and new AMI-9x Missiles would take it out before SU-30 could have a chance to maneuver in the engagement. and if the SU-30 somehow doses Maneuver to engage pilots flying f-22s have been trained to not to fight the SU-30 head on but to exploit the fact that the SU-30 is not as fast as the f-22 and to uses range on there side. In short the only why the SU-30 would win if it's not seen coming and well it's not sheath. In the dogfight F-22 vs. SU-30 F-22 wins [link]
Cool drawing. But I do doubt that the Flanker's would pwn the Raptor so easily. After all the F-22 was made to fight off dozens of Flankers and Fulcrums at the same time.
Now.... if we were talking about a production model derivate from the T-50 PAK FA prototype, That can get very interesting.
A F-22 does not fight alone. What you need is An AWAC, A refueller, 2-4 F-22's to defend these two, and 4-8 F-22's to really fight.Again, all F-22 "rest" for 20-30 hrs after 1 hr flight A pair of Su-30 go for the awac or the refueller, they have nowhere to run. For Su 30 there is no such inhibition - they have much better fuel load, range & are independent
The joke : US & Russia defense bosses met, where US boss started taunting the Russian with the F-22. Russian replied : F-22 - made by lowest bidder seeking maximum profit.
Su-30 - made by Scientist & Engineers under threat of their lives
Which is better?
Of course, as of this date, the only way an SU-30 could attack and destroy an F-22 is to hit it on the ground, as the whole fleet is grounded indefinitely since May 6, 2011...
Keep up the good work, redguard!
but even though the SU-30 is more maneuverable F-22 the F-22 with long range radar would wipe the SU-30 out the sky. and even if a dogfight happens than the f-22 with it's new gun site and new AMI-9x Missiles would take it out before SU-30 could have a chance to maneuver in the engagement. and if the SU-30 somehow doses Maneuver to engage pilots flying f-22s have been trained to not to fight the SU-30 head on but to exploit the fact that the SU-30 is not as fast as the f-22 and to uses range on there side. In short the only why the SU-30 would win if it's not seen coming and well it's not sheath. In the dogfight F-22 vs. SU-30 F-22 wins [link]
The image itself is amazing
(F22 would win imo) lol..
Now.... if we were talking about a production model derivate from the T-50 PAK FA prototype, That can get very interesting.