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GetterDragun wrote:

Rhask wrote:The F-35 is a gimped f-22. Both were bid on for the U.S military, and the F-22 is superior. The F-22 will be the best fighter plane EVER. The F-35 is basically F-22 tech that the U.S Militia is willing to sell.

F-22 2.2 mach supercruise (no afterburners, could be higher even not declassified completly).

Has thrust vectoring, and a version of it w/o tail fin and only thrust vectoring is being developed.

Holds fewer weapons than an F-15, or F/A-18, but MUCH more effective. The more weaponry it holds the less stealthy it is. A bare F-22 is only a few mm large on radar. It only holds about 500 rounds of 20cal munition, which will burn off in a few seconds.

Even in the rare occasion than an F-15 has been able to spot an F-22 in practice battles, it has been unable to lock on it.

The first plane to best an F-22 will probably be sub-orbital. This plane is the most sophisticated technology on earth.

Here's the F-22s potential competitor, they call it the Berkut, I call it Cyclonus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wXsygQTVA

I was talking about the SU-37/47 with someone else in another thread. They had concerns that the new Transformers: Animated Starscream couldn't fly with such a wing design. I reassured them that forward swept wing designs have been around since World War II when German aeronautics engineers developed the design. The FSW design was supposed to allow for better manuverability and to help prevent stall at high angle of attack.


The US looked into FSW designs. The Grumman X-29 was chosen over the General Dynamics F-16 FSW desigin in 1984, but after experimenting with it for a while, they opted not to put them into production afterall.

Probably because of materials cost. The forward swept wing design is so maneuvarable that there is enough force to snap the wings, that's why the SU-47 is only a technology demo, sinceit is possible that when pushed it could snap the wing (plus the cost to produce it would re real high due to the materials).