#Su-35S Flanker

[blueiscoool]

A Russian Su-35 ‘Headbutting’ American F-16 At Very Close Range Off Alaska.

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has posted a video of an 18th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (18th FIS) F-16C executing an intercept on a pair of Russian Tu-95MS Bear-Hs and their fighter escorts off Alaska. The video in question shows a Su-35S Flanker executing a very close-range ‘headbutting’ maneuver, cutting in front of and across the Viper’s path.

[nocternalrandomness]

Raptor vs Flanker

[usafphantom2]

It seems this is the moment when a #Russian #Su35 launched a #R37M very long range AAM on a #Ukrainian #mig29 at a distance of 217 klms as the informations on the HUD of Su35 shows !

@kmldial70 via X

[responsivethoughts]

The Sukhoi SU-35 Flanker is a multirole, twin-engine fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in the Russian Federation. It can supercruise to supersonic speeds without afterburners and the engines employ a 3D thrust vectoring tech for uncanny manoeuvering capability. This would be a though adversary in a dogfight.

[padparadzha]

[believeintrigger]

Two Su-35s supposedly to be of the mythical Razgriz Squadron, 23rd September 2010.

[saturniandragon]

𝔽 𝕃 𝔸 ℕ 𝕂 𝔼 ℝ

Done and dusted! Ace Combat 7 phonk edit featuring Adra's personal Su-35S.

DVRKMANE & 6SIXSIX - MACABRE

Big thanks to @novicethelizard for providing Flanker gun run sound effect.

[su-35bm-flanker-e]

I think Ace Combat 7 broke me in such a bizarre way that I feel a growing, potentially unhealthy, obsession with the F-104 Starfighter.

Look at this thing. It's a pencil with wings. It's killed a lot of pilots in its service time. It's a missile with a man in it. And yet...

something about it is graceful.

The aero is shit. The wings are too stubby to be maneuverable in any reliable manner, even back when this thing was new. The T-tail is problematic in high AoA. You probably have a better survivability falling off a building than flying in this thing.

Why am I finding beauty in you??

The twin seat F-104B looks even better than the single seater.

I don't get it. I like it, but I don't get it.

But maybe you don't have to understand something in order to love it.

I thought the Su-35BM/Su-35S Flanker-E was my one true jet fighter love. And then this thing came along.

[strictlyfavorites]

A-7 CORSAIR II

Eyes to the skies between 6 15-6 35 this evening for a buzz down Palafox then Pensacola Beach! Weather permitting

Komatsu based 306 Hikotai ‘Golden Eagles’ have a new eye catching 40th anniversary Schemed F-15J 2

F A-18 Super Hornet 6

AV-8B

Mitsubishi F-15J Japan Air Force

McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle2

Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker Ukrainian Air Force

B2 spirit 

A Beast Mode four-ship of F-35As

Grumman F-14 Tomcat4

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

As requested by @thediam0ndt, the list of Frogblast's headcanon Ace Combat AU major characters (in order by game release date). Genderswaps abound:

Phoenix: cis/female/aro-ace

Nemo: Genderfluid-genderqueer-enby/pan

Mobius 1: cis/female/bi (additional notes: married to Yellow 4 post-war)

Cipher: cis/male/gay (additional notes: furry)

Pixy: cis/male/pan (additional notes: married post war, had a son, who became Osean fighter pilot 'Tabloid')

Blaze: enby/pan (additional notes: married to Nagase post-war)

Nagase: cis/female/pan (additional notes: aeromorph fetish enjoyer (she was really into the Arkbird after all...; married to Blaze post-war)

Bartlet: cis/male/bi

Chopper: cis/male/bi

Grimm: cis/male/pan

Snow: cis/male/straight

Talisman: cis/female/bi

Trigger: cis/female/lesbian (additional notes: full name and titles: Countess Anamaria von Hartmann; country of origin: Belka; DoB: 06/06/1995; place of birth: Stier Castle (family estate); confirmed furry; involved with Rosa Cosette d'Elise by several years after the Lighthouse War)

Count: cis/male/graph straight (additional notes: dating Huxian post-war)

Huxian: cis/female/straight (additional notes: dating Count post-war)

Jager: cis/male/straight (additional notes: married, with one child)

Mihaly: cis/male/gay

Hugin: Genderfluid-genderqueer-enby/omni

Munin: Genderfluid-genderqueer-enby/omni

Monarch: transfemme/enby/pan

Prez: cis/female/poly

Diplomat: cis/male/pan (additional notes: married to Comic)

Comic: cis/female/bi (additional notes: married to Diplomat)

Crimson 1: cis/male/gay

K-9A Driver: cis/male/straight

K-9A Eye-Tee: cis/female/straight

K-9B Bookie: cis/male/pan

K-9C Cobb: enby/straight

K-9D Brick: cis/male/gay

Additional notes on this AU below the cut:

* Some of the aircraft flown by certain squadrons got upgraded from earlier models to the newest and best versions available, assuming the nation is either the originator of said variant, or IMO able to afford it monetarily and diplomatically

* includes fanon names for many characters not given full names

* McKinsey's first name is Dick (in canon we know it starts with a D), and I cannot be convinced otherwise

* a new LRSSG squadron has been made (Gorgon) to fit the reassigned Spares (Alexander "Tabloid" Foulke is squadron lead, members include Avril, Full Band, High Roller, and other former Spares

* all squadrons are now properly 12 aircraft, though most of the members do get the "generic Spare" treatment bc I cannot be bothered to fill up 36 spaces on a TO&E, even for the LRSSG). Rage and Scream, old friends of Trigger's, had their contract bought out by Trigger herself and now fly with the group.

* many cool fanon skins have been turned into full squadrons

* Brownie lives and becomes squadron leader after Knocker bites it being dumb and trying to fight Mihaly (who properly ignored two retreating aircraft openly broadcasting that they were doing so)

* Razgriz is here! It consists of Blaze (proper name I made up for him: Daemon Nacht), Bartlett (now married to his Yuke spy waifu), Chopper (who landed in the river, and still listens to Blurry) and Grimm (who remains as extremely competent as ever). They now fly F-14

* OMC and OANG squadrons get some love!

* Labarthe lives, and unites a lot of the Erusean Conservatives into a functional faction that properly allies with the Oseans. Shilage's independence claim is respected, and so Mihaly doesn't get shot down and gets to fight alongside Trigger

* Some of the named Aces show up (pulled from an excellent mod on Nexus that created actual assault records for the enemy aces from 7; the Su-47 from Cape Rainy, an EASA test pilot; the F/A-18 from Faceless Soldier; now an EASA field coordinator for a whole Hornet/Flanker drone squadron, has a Copro unit as a backseater like Mihaly, named "Copine"; the MiG-21 ace from the first mission returns to head a squadron that all use Su-35s, except for him: Silber vibes); the Mirage ace from Stonehenge shows up as the leader of Erusea's demonstration team that got swept up into actual combat; the Su-35 ace from the night Anchorhead mission is retconned into a Conservative ex-noble who stays alive.

* Many named squadrons survive/get reconstituted as they would in actual wartime.

* Yellow Squadron is here! Yellow 4 didn't act dumb and stayed behind after getting guerilla-bombed in AC04, so she leads the Yellows now. She and Mobius got along so well after the war that they got married. Her name is Algerian-based and her callsign is the French word for "catgirl" bc some Yellow 13 concept art had a catgirl on his flight jacket.

* Rosa gets Royal Guards now, some flying F-15EX and some flying X-02S. They are very competent, despite their ceremonial functions and fancy white-and-orange Erusean rose paintjobs.

* An Erusean intelligence/internal security squadron called "Polonium" works with the LRSSG in taking out the Alicorn

* The Alicorn has an anti-mutiny occur during the events of SP03, and doesn't get sunk, goes on to form a naval dream with the Marigold and the Eminent Domain. Torres gets to rant about "crisp white sheets" in a jail cell.

* The Erusean cowboy F-4 pilots from SP01 get to stick around since they weren't TGTs in that mission, and they were fun as hell

* The one poor MiG-31 with all the "mechanical issues" from SP01 and SP02 ends up leading the squadron by virtue of being the only one still alive, which may or may not be one of the squadrons that did the Erusean side of the satellite oopsie via ASAT missiles (like the MiG-31 can carry IRL)

* Nuclear ordnance is considered as a backup to Stonehenge in taking out the Arsenal Birds. Luckily Railgun Mommy McOnie gets Stonehenge working as in canon (and without randomly using civilians as surveyors)

* Lots of countries represented in an actual multinational IUN set up! Yukes! Belkans! Ustio! Emmeria! Estovakia! Cascadia! The Federation!

[eyestothe-skies]

Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E, Russian Air Force

[emo-56]

Your bio says to ask about military planes, so which one is your favorite and why?

i will write a list

Avro vulcan

Hawker siddley harrier/ BAE harrier II/BAE Sea harrier

Dehavilland vampire

Panavia Tornado F.3/ADV (i think the longer nose makes it look a bit better than the strike variant)

mcdonnell douglas F-15

mitsubishi F-2

supermarine spitfire/seafire

mitsubishi Type 0

eurofighter typhoon

North American P-51

mcdonnell douglas F-4

the flanker family

SAAB JAS 39

Hawker hurricane

ilyushin IL-2

Hawker typhoon

dassault mirage 2000

Lockheed Martin F-35

Lockheed Martin F-22

gloster javelin

English electric lighting

the other V-bombers

KAI KF-21

Avro Lancaster

Boeing B-29/Tupolev TU-4

Tupolev TU-160

Tupolev TU-95

Vought F4-U

Grumman F-14

SAAB J35

SAAB J37

Mikoyan-gurevich MiG 21

Sukhoi SU-57

English electric canberra

Messerschmitt BF109

North American rockwell OV-10

sepecat jaguar

SAAB 105

Dehavilland venom (yes i know its basically a vampire)

Hawker hunter

Fairey swordfish

IAF Kfir

mitsubishi T-2

mitsubishi F-1

Sukhoi SU-25

i do have some more in mind but the max limit on numbered lists is 45, the list isnt in any order. and yes, i have mild autism (im saying that as if it isnt painfully obvious from the 45 aircraft i just listed as my "favourite")

my reasoning, simply put, is their cool

[nocternalrandomness]

Russian Su-35 - Lipetsk Airbase

[usafphantom2]

Ukraine Just Captured One Of Russia’s Most Capable Aerial Electronic Warfare Pods

Russia’s lost Khibiny-U electronic warfare pod that flies on its advanced Flanker fighters will be a prize for foreign intelligence agencies.

Joseph Trevithick Posted on Sep 12, 2022 7:27 PM EDT

A Russian Su-30SM fighter jet with at least one wingtip pod associated with the Khibiny-U electronic warfare suite, as well as a centerline electronic warfare pod. KNIRTI / via Twitter

Ukrainian forces have been capturing significant amounts of Russian materiel of various kinds as they keep pushing eastward and southward as part of their ongoing counteroffensives. These spoils of war now reportedly include a relatively intact example of an RTU 518-PSM self-protection jamming pod. This pod is associated with the latest version of the larger Khibiny-U electronic warfare suite used on the Su-30SM Flanker-H, and its capture holds potentially great intelligence value.

Pictures of the front end of the pod in question began circulating on social media earlier today. It was reportedly discovered among the wreckage of a Russian Su-30SM, with the serial number RF-81773 and bort number Red 62, that was shot down earlier in the conflict near the city of Izium (Izyum) in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. It would appear that Russian forces had made no serious attempt to locate what was left of the aircraft, and remove or destroy it to prevent their capture before the area was recently liberated.

As the Russian Army couldn't be bothered to remove the wreckage of Su-30SM 'RF-81773' that came down in a formerly Russian-controlled part of Kharkiv Oblast, Western intelligence agencies are now the proud owner of a slightly dented SAP-518SM 'Regata' jamming pod. pic.twitter.com/9BN5dPNQvi

— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) September 12, 2022

As installed on Russia’s Su-30SMs, the RTU 518-PSM is part of a larger suite referred to as Khibiny-U. The entire “complex,” as it is referred to in Russian, consists of the SAP 518-SM, made of up one RTU 518-PSM pod on the right wingtip and an RTU 518-LSM1 on the left wingtip, as well as the internal KS REP system, according to a 2021 paper from the Kaluga Scientific-Research Institute for Radio Engineering. Better known by the Russian acronym KNIRTI, this is the manufacturer of all of the versions of the Khibiny family of electronic warfare complexes.

As already noted, the RTU 518-PSM is understood to contain an active jamming system, while the companion RTU 518-LSM1 is believed to be a passive receiver that detects threatening electromagnetic spectrum emissions, such as those from hostile radars. In its primary role as a self-protection system against enemy air defenses, the complete SAP 518-SM subsystem, also referred to as Regata, reportedly has the ability to spot and then jam and otherwise confuse an opponent’s radars – including seekers on incoming radar-guided missiles – in various ways. This may include the ability to generate false emissions to try to help mask the actual aircraft using Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) technology, which you can read more about here.

There are also indications that the SAP 518-SM subsystem is focused on protecting against mid-band threats, while the internal KS REP subsystem is optimized against high-band ones, giving the overall complex a broader range of capabilities. This is based on what is known about the function of slightly different pods as part of the older Khibiny-10M system for the Su-35S. Another earlier version of Khibiny, the Khibiny-10V, also includes distinct pods and is used on the Su-34.

The Su-30SM can carry an additional pod, known as the SAP-14, that can reportedly provide escort jamming capabilities for larger groups of aircraft, on the centerline. It’s not immediately clear if SAP-14 is a component of Khibiny-U or not, though it clearly can be used together with other elements of that system.

A Russian Su-30SM with at least one of the SAP 518-SM wingtip pods and what appears to be the SAP-134 centerline pod. KNIRTI

In addition, the U in Khibiny-U is believed to stand for unifitsirovannyi, or unified in Russian, suggesting it may reflect an effort to create a standardized version of the system that will work with multiple types of aircraft as an offshoot of developing an electronic warfare suite for the Su-30SM. The Russian Ministry of Defense first hired KNIRTI to develop the Su-30SM’s new electronic warfare complex in 2013, a year before the Khibiny-10V became the first version of that system to enter operational service on any platform.

Russian SU-30SMs were first seen with Khibiny-U in 2018. However, there is evidence that Russian Su-30SMs in Syria flew on at least some occasions as early as 2015 with the wingtip pods from the Su-34’s Khibiny-10V system.

The possibility of gleaning new details about what the jammer inside the RTU 518-PSM pod, as well as the rest of the Khibiny-U system, can and cannot do is exactly why its capture is significant. Elements of all three known versions of Khibiny have almost certainly been recovered in the country of the fighting already, including from the remains of an Su-35S that came down in the vicinity of Izium back in April before Russian forces initially captured the area. However, this newly captured example of the RTU 518-PSM pod appears to be in especially good condition.

The potential intelligence haul could be even greater depending on the condition of other components of the electronic warfare suite on the crashed jet, as well. If it is indeed from the wreckage of Su-30SM Red 62, that aircraft could also have been fitted with the L150 Pastel radar homing and warning system (RHAWS), which is used for self-defense and for helping with the targeting of Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles, as well as UV-30MKR chaff/flare dispensers.

There’s potentially more for Ukrainian intelligence personnel, and almost certainly their foreign partners, such as those in the United States, to pick over here than just the hardware, too. Any surviving data storage systems with any software used to run portions of the Khibiny-U could actually be more valuable, especially given the reported DRFM signal mimicking functionality.

The actual subcomponents, including computer chips and other electronics, used in the RTU 518-PSM and any other elements of the associated electronic warfare complex could provide valuable industrial intelligence, too. As The War Zone, among others, has reported in the past, the conflict in Ukraine has exposed just how reliant Russia’s defense industry is on foreign-sourced parts.

The apparent decision on the part of the Russian military to make no efforts to do anything about the remains of this aircraft, possibly due to the belief that their positions in this part of Ukraine were relatively secure, can only add insult to injury.

The war in Ukraine has already been a massive boon for foreign intelligence services, especially when it comes to Russia’s most advanced electronic warfare and air defense capabilities. Many captured systems may well have already been sent outside the country for further analysis and evalution. Even before the current conflict, Ukraine had been an important source of Soviet-designed hardware, including fighter jets and large radars, for the U.S. military’s so-called foreign materiel exploitation (FME) enterprise.

Whatever the case, an important component of an entire family of Russian aircraft electronic warfare suites, one of the most modern such systems that the country has and it uses on a number of its front-line combat jets, now looks to be firmly in the hands of its opponents.

Contact the author: joe@thedrive.com

[a-flying-fortress]

I am Once Again watching F-35 videos and I have a question: when the jet...... like turns or flips or rotates or does practically any maneuver, the way it moves is imo just so far into the uncanny valley that it almost weirds me out? as if it's not SUPPOSED to look like that? objectively it's so cool but like. what happen. why it do that. why plane move weird

>:)

to start, i'll give the opinion of someone i know that's afraid of planes: "they look too stiff and inorganic when in flight. very unlike the flap of a bird, bat, or insect. it's wrong."

without loading this with aerodynamics shit, what affects a combat aircraft's (read: fighter aircraft's) performance is its thrust-to-weight ratio and its wing loading. think of that second one as the aircraft's ability to generate lift - i'm generalizing here. a fighter jet's crazy maneuverability is allowed by its great lift and high thrust-to-weight (most modern fighters have a twr of 1:1 or greater). a fighter is built to generate a lot of lift with its rather stubby wings; sometimes even its entire airframe is made to facilitate the generation of more lift (see: su-57; flat and wide). its flight control surfaces such as flaps and horizontal stabilizers are also helpful here.

think of a civilian aircraft like your daily driver car; it can perform, but it is made more for utility unless modified or under the direction of a skilled driver. a fighter is like an f1 car or any sort of modified car, such as your neighborhood drift missile or a dragster, and is made for performance in whatever role it was built for. speed? air superiority? legitimate concerns.

another huge factor for some modern fighters is thrust vectoring. this is an aircraft or rocket's ability to direct the thrust coming from its engine(s). (the f-22 can move its thrust nozzles up and down by 20°.) this is how many achieve it. the f-35 does not make use of thrust vectoring, yet is still highly capable. she just has a lot of thrust. it's even an stovl (short take-off and vertical landing) aircraft. in fact, there is a variant that will perform the most excellent affront to god: vtol (vertical take-off and landing)! a great example of vtol is the harrier family of jets. helicopters are vtol aircraft.

as a last treat - and forgive my joke - but the ballerinas of the jet world tend to be the russian "flanker" family of jets, with the su-27 "flanker" being the primary example, but also including the su-30/su-35. the flankers are fucking MASSIVE and actually have somewhat low twr...but their wings are wide & enormous and their airframes are made for lift, which gives them their abilities. they are basically their own class: supermaneuverable jets. this ability is more for show than anything; modern jet combat is dominated by long-range missile engagement rather than guns and dogfights, so supermaneuverability is really only fun for an empty aircraft at an air show. it's bluster. supermaneuverability is greatly reduced by the presence of the combat loadout.

however, more and more jets are edging into these high-performance abilities. also, military jets often tend to be more capable than is publicly released.

[believeintrigger]

Su-35S Flanker-E.