81DaytonaPaceCar Well-Known Member Mar 12, 2008 #2 Intriguing video. Couple of random thoughts... 1. A relatively small plane...not much weaponry can be carried. 1a. Let's see a vid of it fully loaded. 2. Congratulations...it can hover...Harriers have been doing that for 30 years, except they can land vertically as well. 2a. You've just decreased the cruising and intercept range by 500 miles. 3. What is the principle purpose of this aircraft? To threaten helicopters? 4. Will they be built with the same legendary post-Cold War Russian quality? 5. Hmmm...a slow/hovering fighter aircraft at full throttle...has to be a pretty big heat signature... Which leads me to #6... 6. The F-22 Raptor...master of all it surveys and most things it cannot.
Intriguing video. Couple of random thoughts... 1. A relatively small plane...not much weaponry can be carried. 1a. Let's see a vid of it fully loaded. 2. Congratulations...it can hover...Harriers have been doing that for 30 years, except they can land vertically as well. 2a. You've just decreased the cruising and intercept range by 500 miles. 3. What is the principle purpose of this aircraft? To threaten helicopters? 4. Will they be built with the same legendary post-Cold War Russian quality? 5. Hmmm...a slow/hovering fighter aircraft at full throttle...has to be a pretty big heat signature... Which leads me to #6... 6. The F-22 Raptor...master of all it surveys and most things it cannot.
ttanewyork Well-Known Member Mar 12, 2008 #3 As a army vet. Anything that could threaten our air superiority would scare me.:guns:
WS6 Stay thirsty my friends Mar 12, 2008 #4 My first reaction to just reading the thread was "Big whoop...I wondered what they reversed engineerd it from" Sure enough it looks like a Tomcat with some canards on it.... BIG surprise.....*yawn*
My first reaction to just reading the thread was "Big whoop...I wondered what they reversed engineerd it from" Sure enough it looks like a Tomcat with some canards on it.... BIG surprise.....*yawn*
Q Quiky One Silver Member Mar 12, 2008 #6 It might be good in a dog fight but those aren't common anymore..