Sukhoi T-50: F-22 copy with 3 axis vectoring?

[Tom_H]

This looks amazingly like the F-22, but with smaller control surfaces. The vectoring nozzles move in any direction and look like those on the Su-37, which could actually move backwards several feet while in a tight loop. (The F-22 vectors only in the pitch axis, but exhaust is shielded. The Su T-50 looks like it would give off some infrared signature at the nozzles.) The $100 Billion questions are, of course, can it integrate systems and fly invisible like the F-22? If so, we could be in trouble.

http://www.flightglobal.com/article...ussian-sukhoi-t-50-fighter-images-emerge.html

 

[riptides]

Now why would be be in trouble? I say buy a few of them and put them to the paces. Heck, the russians have always been good at sheer power in their a/c designs.

Might just be good for us taxpayers.

-Mike Z.

 

[N80]

I don't think we would be in trouble at all. A fighter is only as good as the system it is integrated into. I have my doubts that the Russians can field an air dominance system anywhere near as robust as ours.

 

[dmccarty]

For another viewpoint on the F22ski....

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20070423.aspx

Later,
Dan