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Published: 2012-09-01 23:11:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 1585; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 52
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No.1by Distant Starr
The F-22A Raptor is currently the No.1 among the 5th generarion fighters in the world and the only operational one. Hence the name of the image. Tell me what you think about this latest creation of mine.
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I'm curious as to why the flaps are deployed but the afterburners are lit? (not that this has any real bearing on the good quality of the image)
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Thank you for the comment Ophacs. It could be the reason why the nose of the plane is lifted upwards 
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that i think is your best,well i like it more than the others
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It could very well be my best through your eyes, that I can not argue about 
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I appreciate it my friend
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OMG this is soo beautiful
F-22 The first plane to defy physics succesfully.....Hey Have you ever heard of the F/A-37?
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thank you very much
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Im going to give ya a challenge
Do you choose to accept?
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what challenge? go ahead and say it anyway. I might say yes or no. It depends
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I challenge you to make a dog fight between the F-22,Pak-50,F/A-37,and SU-47
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I won't promise, but will think about it
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Ok just a suggestion
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hey i want to join your challenge with a cessna
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Even though a Eurofighter Typhoon can totally mop the floor with this aircraft in a dogfight, by the time they see an F-22 on radar, its already over their heads.
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I very much doubt that the Typhoon would beat the F-22. Vectored thrust means all the world in modern dogfights, and the Typhoon doesn't have it.
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Actually it doesn't. The Euro Fighter is light and nimble. It has canards pared with a delta wing design which gives it great maneuverability at both sub and supersonic speeds and very little drag. But makes it stand out like a sore thumb on radar.
By contrast the F-22 while agile, is actually very heavy for its size. It has a lower thrust to weight ratio compared to a Typhoon.
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Hmm. I would say that they might be equally agile. If it was a pure dogfight, I can almost assure you that vectored thrust would top canards any day. The canards would allow for a higher angle of attack and slower stall speeds, but vectored thrust allows for all of that on top of advanced maneuvers like Pugachev's Cobra.
I still don't know, though! It would be incredibly exciting to watch, although I can predict that the Typhoon and the Raptor will absolutely never be on opposing sides in a war.
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You don't need thrust vectoring to achieve a Pugachev's Cobra. They don't have thrust vectoring on a Typhoon because with or without it, it can still perform out side the range of human tolerance. And
the Typhoon was built specifically for dog fighting, the same way the Raptor was designed to sneak up undetected and always blow the first fatal punch.
Like I said earlier, A Typhoon would have to already be in the air and searching for an F-22 to correctly intercept it. Otherwise by the time radar picks up the Raptor, it's far too late.
An F-22 is to a PAK-FA the same way a Eurofighter is to an Su-37.
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