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Originally posted by jonesey_dude
But computers are a major weakness...thats why I prefer the SU-27 to the F-22.
The MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, third-generation fighters, were fitted with the more advanced Argon Ts-101 family of computers. The Su-27’s TsVM-80 main fire-control computer was the first system in a Russian aircraft to combine infrared sight, laser, optical and multimode radar inputs to feed a head-up display (HUD). The Su-27 also includes Russia’s first operational helmet-mounted target designator, called the NSTs-27. It feeds the 36SH optical radar, which is produced by Geofizika NPO and incorporates one Ts-101 computer.
Both the Su-27 and MiG-29 were benchmark aircraft in terms of computer power. The two fighters also were initial platforms for the "Tester" on-board flight recorder, which records 256 parameters. Post flight analysis of Tester cassettes are conducted using the base Luch-74 laboratory monitoring system, built around the ES-1841 computer, an IBM PC copy that has been produced by Miniradioprom since 1987. A recent 1998 prototype of an upgraded MiG-29 SMT incorporates a more powerful MVK computer.
Originally posted by American Mad Man
If this is a flaw, it is a flaw of EVERY NEW FIGHTER NOT JUST THE RAPTOR.
The Raptor may have the best computers, but aircraft like the Typhoon and the soon to be T-50 MUST use computers for the fly by wire systems and avionics. So, every fighter would have this flaw.
Originally posted by jonesey_dude
But computers are a major weakness...thats why I prefer the SU-27 to the F-22.
Originally posted by American Mad Man
Are you joking?
Tell you what - you take your Su-27's, I'll take 1/3rd the number of aircraft, but I get Raptors. I'd bet the Raptors could take every single one of the 27's without a single lost aircraft.
Originally posted by Chris McGee
Whoever was writing the virus would also need access to the operating system wouldn't they?
(unless these things are running windows in which case they'll probably never take off anyway )
Originally posted by NWguy83
Fighter Master FIN, thats not actually what the Raptor's cockpit/display looks like. Believe it or not, it's classified.
Above: The F-22 cockpit in the most advanced of any US fighter. The three main displays are left to right, defence, situation and attack, while the lower centre one is stores management. Like the F-16, the Raptor has a sidestick controller. (Photo, LM).