"SU-35," as I understand it, is a bit of a recycled designation.
#Mig 35 vs su 35 mod
The Russian MOD might keep MiG on life support with a pity order, but everyone else will want Sukhois, just like the past twenty years. It's aerodynamically stable fergawdsake! Flankers at least have giant gas bags and twelve weapons stations.īottom line, if MiG wants export orders, they're going to have to do better than this. The underlying Fulcrum airframe is mediocre. But now everyone has HOBS missiles that are better than R-73, and the modernization has eaten into the thrust to weight quite a bit. Its biggest advantage, back in the late 1980s, was good WVR performance thanks to the unparalleled R-73/HMS combination and a high thrust to weight ratio. MiG-29 was one of the weakest of the 4th generation fighters. But if American stuff isn't on the table, why would you ever pick MiG's current offering? Obviously, if you have a choice between American stuff and Russian stuff there's no contest. However, given the choice of Russian fighter aircraft, PAK-FA is definitely more attractive than SU-35, and SU-35 (with modest modernization) is more attractive than MiG-35. Worse still, PAK-FA is what, maybe a decade off for export customers at this point, at the most? I'm certainly not arguing that anyone would pick PAK-FA over F-35 if given the choice. If someone wants Russian fighters and they have cash to flash, they're not going to get a MiG-35 with whizzbang toys much faster than they could get an SU-35 with whizzbang toys, it will be much more capable, and long-term its cost is similar. The main issue is that nobody is throwing money at it right now. AESA and a targeting pod for the SU-35 is not far off and have been shown off at air shows. It's more like "4-"īut it's not like the assembly lines for MiG-35 are belching smoke and making noise. Why? Because it has a targeting pod and an AESA radar which offers technology found on just about every other 4th gen plane from 10 years ago. I just love how Russia just adds another + at the end of any generation whenever they make a new upgrade.
#Mig 35 vs su 35 upgrade
Of course Sukhoi can remedy that, but given that it took them 10 years to get a MiG-29 upgrade in the guise of the MiG-35, and only 20 years to get the Su-35.chances of upgrading quickly enough to be relevant may be slim. It has no real multi-role capability, it has a radar that is 20 years out of date etc. Collimatrix wrote:Why would they want MiG-35 over SU-35?īecause Su-35 is way behind technologically.
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