Jamie

These fekkers keep flying over my house how cool is that

YouTube - Eurofighter Typhoon

alpha charlie

Mine too matey
AC

Ringpeas

They are based near me at Coningsby.

I would not want to live there though. The novelty soon wears off after the 50th aircraft roars overhead.

Nido

Whilst in reality the Eurofighter is probably £ for lb the best fighter in the skies today, until they fit thrust vectoring to it on Tranche 4 (if they do) then this baby will hold the king of bling in the aircraft world!

YouTube - EGC SU-37

Ringpeas

That needs more chrome.

And the paint job is so 90's

Nice bit of flying mind

alcazar

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Is that the "Flanker"?

If so, that's the aircraft the Americans were scared of: their computer simulations couldn't find an aircraft to beat it

Alcazar

Nido

Pretty much, the "Flanker-F" is the technical designation. The original Flanker was the SU-27, the 37 is the daddy with the thrust vectoring though

Boro

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Had these flyin over Cornwall recently, from Newquay way.

MikeCardiff

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Have had a few of these taking off from the airport near me - awesome seeing them take off completely vertical and dissapear in a few seconds, and doing some very low runs over the channel. Very loud though, so dont think I'd want to listen to it every day !

PeteBrant

There's a bit of me in that 'plane

Jamie

What part btw tonight two eurofighters will be messing about on the northeast coast for a few hours

davegtt

Love living in Lincolnshire. So many RAF bases and so many fighters doing low level flying near my gaff, love it

PeteBrant

Missile Approach Warning.

alcazar

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I thought the Su27 had that too? I saw it at one of the last Finningley open days, and it did a movement called a "Cobra", where it flew horizontally, then virtually stopped dead and reared nose up, before dropping back to horizontal and taking off like a bat out of hell., (No, not that fat git, a real bat )

Alcazar

Prasius

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If anyone can dig up a picture of a SU-27/37 next to a similar generation western fighter aircraft you will see the Flankers major problem. They are HUGE.

They can do all the fancy things they want with their tailpipes.. a Eurofighter/Rafael/etc will have the advantage when close, and at a distance - it doesn't really matter how maneuverable you are; missiles are smaller and faster

alcazar

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Not what the yanks found from their computer simulations when the Su27 hit the skies.

They were sh*t scared of actually coming up against one

Alcazar

Luminous

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I'm no aircraft buff, but I used to like playing flight sims on my Amiga (yes, yes I am that old). Su27 did not have thrust vectoring, but could do the Cobra, and was the first plane to show that maneuver to the West. The Su37 (the one with thrust vectoring) could do a complete 360 degree loop thing while it did the cobra.

Now we just need a flight buff to replace "loop thing" with the correct term

Luminous

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I thought that the Cobra maneuver was meant to give them a massive advantage in a dogfight. As when a Western aircraft was lining you up for a shot (at close range), they could do this making the attacking aircraft overshoot and become the hunted. Much like Tom Cruise did on Top Gun

Luminous

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Oh, and while I am posting endless drivel (otherwise known as the thoughts that spring into my mind), how do Missile Warning Detection things work?

I have a basic understanding of how an aircraft can detect that someone has locked onto you (radar switches for scanning to a follow mode). I can also get how you could detect an active homing device on a missile (although I don't know how you would differentiate that from just a radar lock). I have no idea how you would detect an incoming Infra Red homing missile as that is entirely passive.

Is it the flame shooting out the end of the missile you detect with this sort of system? If that is the case, how come older Western aircraft could detect incoming missiles, but not incoming fighter jets that were behind them.

Hmmm,should I ask more questions do you think?

andythejock01wrx

LOL Luminous, I had a ZX Spectrum. I had it "upgraded" from 16k to 48k though.

Jamie

The Commodore&dragon32&zx is where i started Loomy ask flightman or leslie about the missile infra red radar stuff they might know

Luminous

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Yeah, I was hoping they would notice the thread. Rather then me PM a whole list of questions they just don't want to type out answers too

rob878

Start with RHWR then move to Mode 4 for starts on your Googling. I'm a rigger so don't fully understand the technology (if at all). The fairies however are very secretive about there gucci kit, so the chances of knowing fully how it works unless you ply them with with lots of beer are slim.

Midlife......

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I worked on the Eurofighter Fibre optic systems

rob878

Is it wise too admit to that??? you had bloody long enough

Only joking. honest

Petem95

Are a bit big aren't they!

Twice the size of an F16!

http://www.thaifighterclub.org/image...f16_su37-1.jpg

J4CKO

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Its funny how people moan about seeing and hearing them ?

Ringpeas

It's all about stealth now. That thing will stick out like a very sore thumb.

Jamie

Image properties says thai is it a ladyboys web site petem95