Russian Fighter Plane video

[Mr. Sandman]

A colleague sent me this, you fighter plane geeks out there may be interested in viewing it….


"This is a video of an in-flight demonstration flown by the Russian SU-30MK fighter aircraft. You'll not believe what you are about to see.
The fighter can stall from high speed, stopping in less than a second. Then it demonstrates an ability to descend tail first without causing a compressor stall. It can also recover from a flat spin in less than a minute." Take a look at the video with the sound up:
http://www.crazyaviation.com/movies/CA_SU-30.wmv

[chris L]

awesome video . its amzing the things that jet can do with out breaking up or crashing .

thanks for sharing

[saltfly]

ka-ooool ! I think they call that type of vertical stall "A CRAZY IVAN"

[striperman36]

that's gotta hurt.

[keeperreaper]

Very cool video. Does the US have any jets that can do comparable tricks?

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by keeperreaper

Very cool video. Does the US have any jets that can do comparable tricks?

No. The reason that jet can do all of that stuff is the small "canard" wings just aft of the cockpit but just ahead of the main wings. The U.S.A.F. and other flying services have shifted all of thier design decisions to incorporating stealth technolgy into a multi=role fighter meaning one plane in several variations like one being able to launch and land from a carrier and others as ground support or pure fighter. The US F-22 Raptor is now being deployed after it's debut in 2005.

In a standard dogfight the SU (Sukhoi)-60 would have air superiority. We rely on getting to them before they see us and pilot training. Obvioulsy that Russian jock is one of thier best. 90% of the others in the Russian AF don't get but a few hours every month if they are lucky. All our guys get hundreds more hours especially the Air Guard pilot's who fly commercially and get more air time training than most full time AF Jocks.

The Swedes make a jet like that with canard wings but like the SU-60 they are not stealth designed so they show on radar as what they are 50 foot long jets.

[justplugit]

good stuff SM and Flap. Thanks.