Your Nation's Air Force [MKI]

[Inutoland]

...I wish I could see what the hell they are talking about...

Ok, I saved the photos and resized them:

The one I assumed was being compared to the F6F is this one:

The Hellcat never had a bubble canopy (to my knowledge). The nose looks more like an FW-190, the tailplane has me thinking P-40, and the wings are all kinds of wrong for a Hellcat. The F6F's wings (and stabilizers, now that I think about it) were very square, and much larger in proportion to the rest of the aircraft.

In fact, give me a minute. I still have the model F6F I built as a kid. *grabs the camera*

Ok, ok, my knowledge of US WW2-era fighters is rather less than my knowledge of others. My knowledge base is roughly British>German>US=Japanese>Russian>All the rest.

The front end with the radial engine always puts me in mind of the Hellcat (and a lot of those US naval planes - Corsair, most of them...) I'll have to study up my US WW2 warplanes. You're right, though, it does have a Fw-190 look to it, though without the underslung intake of the Fw-190, the general impression is still more Hellcat/Corsair. To me, at least.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

Japanese and US Navy fighters strongly favoured radial engines, most other forces used a mix of radial and V designs.The CISR prefers air-cooled radials, but we do have a few designs based around that inverted V12.

[New Quesit]

Prange Kg-14

[Dinosaurana]

(Image)

Prange Kg-14

Is that an Su-27, or...?

[New Quesit]

sure

[Transnapastain]

(Image)

Prange Kg-14

Is that an Su-27, or...?

Su-27



Not a Su-27. The file name on the picture says its a PAK-FA

[The UEG-Space Command]

Short sword

[Dinosaurana]

Is that an Su-27, or...?

Su-27



Not a Su-27. The file name on the picture says its a PAK-FA

Oh, sorry. That @#!*% camo pattern threw me off, since I ALWAYS see SU-27s with that, and PAK-FAs with more of a Greyish-Greenish hue.

[Cartavesqa]

Is that an Su-27, or...?

Su-27



Not a Su-27. The file name on the picture says its a PAK-FA

Heh all russian aircraft look the same

[Transnapastain]

Heh all russian aircraft look the same

This is almost universally true. Sukhoi craft do look a lot alike, because most of them are built on the Su-27 frame

Of all of those, minor differences can be detected. Only one of them is immediately noticeably different. Obviously differences would be easier to detect in actual photos of the aircraft, but I wanted to present some uniformity to the posted pictures.

I added in the Su-25, which obviously predates the Su-27 in model, for comparison.

You point is hereby proven, good sir

Oh, sorry. That @#!*% camo pattern threw me off, since I ALWAYS see SU-27s with that, and PAK-FAs with more of a Greyish-Greenish hue.

No big deal. We ask, thats how we learn. Haha, You had it down to the right country, that counts, and, thats a picture of the PAK-FA I've not seem.

[No endorse]

Japanese and US Navy fighters strongly favoured radial engines, most other forces used a mix of radial and V designs.The CISR prefers air-cooled radials, but we do have a few designs based around that inverted V12.

Radials have good power:weight ratios and can be air-cooled rather than necessarily requiring water cooling. Even multi-row. So there's part of the reason we liked 'em.

They have their drawbacks (drag, don't scale well, etc), but we weren't butting too hard into those at the time.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

Su-27



Not a Su-27. The file name on the picture says its a PAK-FA

Heh all russian aircraft look the same

u mad?

They look about as similar as an F-22 and an F-14.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

Japanese and US Navy fighters strongly favoured radial engines, most other forces used a mix of radial and V designs.The CISR prefers air-cooled radials, but we do have a few designs based around that inverted V12.

Radials have good power:weight ratios and can be air-cooled rather than necessarily requiring water cooling. Even multi-row.* So there's part of the reason we liked 'em.

They have their drawbacks (drag, don't scale well, etc), but we weren't butting too hard into those at the time.

Yes, I was aware of that* when I made the decision.

They also have lower maintenance requirements and much higher reliability and don't die when your coolant leaks out through the bullet hole in your radiator. Considering that we tend towards trying to engineer simple solutions where possible, radials would have clearly made our decision makers fap.

[Cartavesqa]

Look at the MiG-35 and The Pak, they look the same on the exterior. Generally russian aircraft from the same era look the same, even though MiG-35 and PAK are not from the same era.

[Licana]

Look at the MiG-35 and The Pak, they look the same on the exterior. Generally russian aircraft from the same era look the same, even though MiG-35 and PAK are not from the same era.

MiG-35 is a MiG-29 with TVC...and it looks nothing like the T-50

[Cartavesqa]

Look at the MiG-35 and The Pak, they look the same on the exterior. Generally russian aircraft from the same era look the same, even though MiG-35 and PAK are not from the same era.

MiG-35 is a MiG-29 with TVC...and it looks nothing like the T-50

It kinda does, the bottom is almost a replica

[Cartavesqa]

Heh all russian aircraft look the same

This is almost universally true. Sukhoi craft do look a lot alike, because most of them are built on the Su-27 frame

Of all of those, minor differences can be detected. Only one of them is immediately noticeably different. Obviously differences would be easier to detect in actual photos of the aircraft, but I wanted to present some uniformity to the posted pictures.

I added in the Su-25, which obviously predates the Su-27 in model, for comparison.

You point is hereby proven, good sir

Oh, sorry. That @#!*% camo pattern threw me off, since I ALWAYS see SU-27s with that, and PAK-FAs with more of a Greyish-Greenish hue.

No big deal. We ask, thats how we learn. Haha, You had it down to the right country, that counts, and, thats a picture of the PAK-FA I've not seem.

This is what i meant

[Cartavesqa]

Heh all russian aircraft look the same

This is almost universally true. Sukhoi craft do look a lot alike, because most of them are built on the Su-27 frame

Of all of those, minor differences can be detected. Only one of them is immediately noticeably different. Obviously differences would be easier to detect in actual photos of the aircraft, but I wanted to present some uniformity to the posted pictures.

I added in the Su-25, which obviously predates the Su-27 in model, for comparison.

You point is hereby proven, good sir

Oh, sorry. That @#!*% camo pattern threw me off, since I ALWAYS see SU-27s with that, and PAK-FAs with more of a Greyish-Greenish hue.

No big deal. We ask, thats how we learn. Haha, You had it down to the right country, that counts, and, thats a picture of the PAK-FA I've not seem.

This is what i meant

[Licana]

MiG-35 is a MiG-29 with TVC...and it looks nothing like the T-50

It kinda does, the bottom is almost a replica

Looks more like an Su-27 to me, but it doesn't really seem to resemble either more strongly than the other.
T-50

Su-27

MiG-35

[The Kievan People]

Look at the MiG-35 and The Pak, they look the same on the exterior. Generally russian aircraft from the same era look the same, even though MiG-35 and PAK are not from the same era.

Wot.






Unless we're going by the fact they both have two engines and two wings.

[Arkinesia]

WWII—Su-2


WWII—MiG-3


WWII—Yak-9

WWII Russki planes were fuckin' sisters. iL-2 was no different:

[Minnysota]

Yak-9 really only beat the P-51D in maneuverability. A captured Yak-9 during the Cold War was tested and they came to that result.

[Xin Ming]

Bi-Planes in Space. Wrap your mind around that one comrades.

[The Corparation]

Bi-Planes in Space. Wrap your mind around that one comrades.

Killed by micrometeroites as most old-time biplanes have fabric wings. And internal combustian engines don't work in space. And Spit-fires in space has already been done and has won the category of old-time fighter in space.

[Xin Ming]

Bi-Planes in Space. Wrap your mind around that one comrades.

Killed by micrometeroites as most old-time biplanes have fabric wings. And internal combustian engines don't work in space. And Spit-fires in space has already been done and has won the category of old-time fighter in space.

I didn't say the same technology, I just said Space-Biplanes. Being that Space-Fighters are entirely academic to begin with and deployed because in FT we don't care about the things that MT cares about? But yeah, Bi-Planes in Space, or maybe the single-plane Junker, haven't decided yet.