Russian SU-37 Super Flanker fighter jet mpeg

[b0red]

Pretty neat!


<< As the plane moves down the runway, the video shows its unique &quot;thrust vectoring&quot; engines pivoting up and down. This feature allows the plane to use the engines, along with conventional control surfaces, to maneuver the aircraft. That allows the kind of acrobatics seen in the rest of the video: end-over-end tumbles, rapid reversals of direction, and turns tighter than any existing figher jet can manage. >>


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[StageLeft]

I bet it has fantastic crashes when the pilot loses control of this setup. Can't be easy to fly!

 

[gittyup]

I think the Harrier (not sure of spelling) Jump Jet uses the same kind of pivoting thrusters.

 

[iamwiz82]

harrier had engines on its sides, so it could lift off straight up from the ground.

 

[AndrewR]

I think the newest Eurofighter was going to have these type of jet nozzles (can't recall the name -- consortium design among Britain, France and Germany; may have been scrapped though). The only US jet that will have this capability in the near term is the F-22 and possibly, though I don't know for sure, the JSF as well.

We need to steal some of those aircraft designers...

 

[Falcon011]

The pivoting thruster technology is relatively old. I've seen planes with this years ago..

It is a badass aircraft though

 

[Finality]

Your thinking of the Eurofighter.

As far as I know the Russians are the only planes that have this kind of thrust vectoring.

 

[Crashedout]

The su-37 in the video is using vectored thrust, with a full 360 degreee arangement. GE pioneered this tech over a decade ago. The F-22 has vectored thrust but the last time I checked it was only vertical, up/down. The harrier uses a ducted arrangement, which is really old and not very efficient(it also melts a lot of runways). The new JTF fighters will probably use something similar to the su-37 but who knows, one team has allready started over on their design. The Eurofighter 2000, the SAAB plane and Mig 2000 may use similar technology as well. Migs were good, low-cost planes.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

The thrust vectoring on the F-22 cannot, it seems, possibly be as effective as that on the SU-37 because the jet exhaust tubes are so much shorter and are completely faired-in on the F-22 to improve its stealth. From what I can tell the designers of the F-22 and JTF are not even aspiring to have the dynamic capabilities of an SU-37 - the idea is that they would never engage a target up-close, but instead use their stealth to sneak up on targets.

The Sukhoi people claim the SU-37 is actually really easy to fly, though it must take a hell of a G-suit and a very fit pilot to execute those kinds of maneuvers without losing consciousness.