Ukrainian Pilots About The Soviet Su-27 Fighter Jet

While poking around on the internet to learn more about the American F-4S Phantom, I somehow ended up reading an article about the Su-27’s use in Ukraine, by both Russia and Ukraine. If you don’t know yet, the Su-27 is a Soviet supersonic fighter aircraft. It was designed as a competitor to the American F-14 Tomcat and McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The article I read was from the Smithsonian magazine, a magazine, which focuses mainly on research and education on science and nature. Now, the reason I mention this is because there are some very interesting interviews with Ukrainian pilots who operated the Su-27, and they have a lot of interesting things to say about it. What they said was more surprising for me actually, considering the current… SITUATION between Russia and Ukraine at the moment.
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[@horpet389]

All of them saying that Su27 is more maneurable here and there, but in the game you suffer in dogfights on this plane

[@bobiwt]

Yeah that's true. But they have to balance out the Su-27 because it has some of the best missiles in the game. They're very maneuverable and fast. So it would be seen as unfair to also make the Su-27 good in dogfights.

[@timbecker4037]

@@bobiwt yeah and keep in mind those missiles are trash in the real world as seen in the iraq iran war.

[@elkrumb9159]

@@timbecker4037 Iran And Iraq didn’t have R-27ERs or ETs, Also if you wanna talk about trash missiles irl the Sparrow was very bad at least early versions, it’s almost as if having impromptu missile failures is a bad game feature

[@salieri_sg9413]

@@timbecker4037 They also had little to no fuel, and?

[@rav3727]

​@@bobiwt No, now they don't anymore...

[@TheDumpDucker]

I’m glad you do both aircraft and tanks!

[@KevinFinchum]

SU27 is just a platform for delivery of weapons and usage of sensors and communications. All other air superiority aircraft, including the F-15, are essentially the same thing in the eyes of commanders. We're talking about an air frame here, which is why it frustrates me when I see caveman ooga boogas think that it's the only variable that matters. Your F-15 or SU-27 are both crap if they are not well equipped, upgraded with avanced sensors and avionics, limited to short range or non-radar weapons, without command and communications (AWACS or Air TACOM), proper maintainince and production lines, political support for economic funding, integration of platform with other units in space, air, land and sea, professionaly trained pilots, etc. etc.

[@treeweasel77]

Hey, you're doing great work. I'm enjoying your videos quite a bit. Thanks for being my kind of nerd.

[@bobiwt]

Haha thank you! I appreciate it :)

[@fluppet2350]

Firing the gun breaks the plane so much that you are only left with 10 minutes of flight due to the batteries at maximum? Well that’s a flaw if I’ve ever seen one.

[@samdavidson6483]

Cool info.

[@rs5974]

Love your vids!

[@bobiwt]

Thank you!

[@Heheheheb-d5o]

600th subber yippe!!

[@JaZoN_XD]

Can you cite which magazine it was? Seems like an interesting read.

[@bobiwt]

@@JaZoN_XD Smithsonian Magazine

[@mochidog1515]

Do you mind me asking what your nationality is, love the vids

[@bobiwt]

Thanks! I was born and raised in Switzerland and still live here, but I have roots from Pakistan.

[@mochidog1515]

@@bobiwt Thats cool, thank u from japan! would you ever cover swiss or pakistani stuff? Swiss airforce content would be awesome

[@bobiwt]

@@mochidog1515 I‘ll see what I can do. Probably gonna talk about the Swiss Leopard 2 soon. I could also talk about the Hunter aircraft which is pretty OG here. About the Pakistani stuff I could talk about the Al Khalid or the A-5C. But these are plans for the future yet.

[@RooRguy27]

F-15 never been shot down 🦅

[@yuyangwang5605]

❤

[@joshuarooney8614]

Ukraine barley has any pilots..those are the last people you want to listen to..

[@rblba346]

And you are expert in Ukrainian aviation? No? Then how do you know how many pilots they have, from social media?

[@sosaboi1352]

Yea only the good ones are still alive and theyre the only men on Earth that are fighting air to air with modern technology. Even the best US Airforce and other countries dont have pilots that have faced the most modern Russian jets in combat. Im pretty sure these are the ONLY guys to listen to about air combat

[@joshuarooney8614]

@sosaboi1352 these pilots only survived by being put in the rear ..they don't do combat air patrol they bomb targets or drop storm shadow missiles , on the other hand you had countless planes shot down by mig 31 miles away from ukraine . You need more information before making comments like this

[@sosaboi1352]

@@joshuarooney8614 I have real information and have seen the footage from both sides of air to air combat in the first months of the war dont assume you know what im informed about

[@sosaboi1352]

@@joshuarooney8614 MiG-29s and Su-27 have been able to shoot down russian Su-30,Su-35 and Su-25 the MiG-31 footage is what the Russians mainly post because its the cleanest they have, the planes speed and range makes it impossible to hit for now but other planes when they close distance have been taken down

[@unclenels7742]

каво:D