PLEASE COMMENT, RATE AND SUBSCRIBE. The Sukhoi Su 37 Terminator made its debut at the Farnborough International Airshow in 1996. It stole the show with its amazing super manoeuvrability culminating in the 360° cobra or "Kulbit".
I was there in 1996 , saw this and I've looked for video proof since then. Nobody at work would believe when I told what I saw an Su37 do. I didn't believe it myself. In combat this might not be a great idea. But look at that plane fly. Is she awesome or what? WOW. Yes, Russia makes some awesome flying machines
These kind of techniques actually do have a useful place in the Russian air combat doctrine (Which, as opposed to the Western doctrine, places heavy emphasis on aggression, initiative, and close quarters, fast paced battle.). One such use would be, when an opposing fighter is attempting to get into a tactical position over the Sukhoi, to then perform any one of the Cobra/Kulbit-esque stalls to bleed airspeed rapidly, causing the opposing fighter's course to overtake the Sukhoi's, giving the Sukhoi a chance at taking the dominant position at their tail. Real air combat is very rarely just a fighter perfectly behind its opponent at their 6 o'clock, thus making stall maneuvers far more viable than one might think.
TheKommissarGaming That's pretty much what the AI uses this maneuver for in Ace Combat: follow the Terminator too closely and it does a Cobra or Kulbit to decelerate and get behind you. On the other hand, it only works if the pursuer is close enough; if not, all this achieves is giving the pursuer a big, practically motionless target for an easy gun kill. It's useful, yes - but as with all combat maneuvers, timing it right is more important than looking flashy, even if the opponent craps his g-suit when he finds himself on the receiving end.
"Hey officer, I am reporting a Su - 37 doing some real aggressive and unsafe movements around me!" "Like how aggressive?" "Uhm...Cobra... and Kulbit..?" "Forget it, we can't catch him!"
@@NaturalzFilmzProductionZ nah, nothing beats how nice Sukhois look. I don't care if america has better tech. there's no way in hell it's winning the beauty pageant against Europe and Asian aircraft.
No, because if Yellow 13 did that, the world (both the real world and the Ace Combat world) would explode due to all the unnatural skill being performed at the same time.
@@haikalhadzik7744 RU-vid probably didn't have replies as a possible thing 7 years ago, he was probably responding to another comment. Video probably had far less views back then as well.
maybe i one of many fortune indonesian people who watched flanker use cobra manuver at Dirgantara Expo 1986. The pilot and the plane is unbeliveble amazing. I see the plane vertically fall out from 10.000 feet with the noose directing to the earth then stopped at 200 feet above our head with the noose directing to the sky, after that the plane rounding airport vertically. I almost had heart attack, i thought that the they have trouble in it machine but i realize i ve been manipulated, lol
No NATO aircraft could have done that in the last Afghan war and the Su-37 wasn't deployed in the Soviet Afghan war as it was just a technology demonstrator
The F-22 actually can't, but, it has no real need to. This move isn't actually that useful in combat unless you're in a super rare 1v1 cannon duel and you have to get a guy off your arse, but, once you do that you have to make sure you bring down the target quick, because you've just burnt off all your energy pulling that stunt.
Thewaltham If I'm not mistaken back in the time of the bid for the US new fighter, YF-23 was stealthier, faster and more advanced in many areas compared to the X-22, yet the X-22 was chosen only because it was more (Maneuverable).
I think you're overlooking the fact that with the next generation of fighters being stealth designs, they may not even know the other is there until they're in visual range of each other. There is a reason why these designs still have cannons.
@@04miron80 Not all F-35 variants have an internal cannon as far as I know only the F-35A has it. The J-20 also doesn't have an internal cannon. The F-22 and Su-57 are thoroughbred air superiority fighters compared to the F-35 and J-20 which are strike fighters. But the 10 year old statement of OP is kind of right. 5th generation engagements will take place in much closer proximity than 4th Gen vs 4th Gen or 4th Gen vs 5th Gen. Mostly because of the inability to get or maintain a lock reliably with long range air-to-air missiles. You can, rather easily, detect and track a stealth aircraft, depending on the capabilities of your radar (ground based SAM radar and AWACS are known to be able to do that, because they operate other a big range of wavelengths). But getting a lock is still extremely difficult. So AWACS and SAM could guide you so you can vector in against the bandit. But you'd have to rely on your medium range Fox-2 missiles, which track via infrared seekers. That's by the way a reason why many aircraft like the Eurofighter, Rafale, Su-35, Su-57, KF-21 and a couple others opted for capable, nose mounted IRST modules, so they can assist them in that scenario. So while gun-on-gun action is still only a last resort, close engagements will be more prominent in the post stealth era.
no the su 37 isnt a production jet, it was a technology demonstrator/testbed but features of it have been incorporated into production aircraft such as the thrust vectoring.
The aircraft most probably did stall, but it used the forward momentum it had, combined with it's vectored nozzles to maintain a controlled attitude for a few seconds. Thus giving the impression it was still flying, when in reality it was more in the initial stages of an impressively well controlled stall. And it then used it's vectored nozzles again to get out of the stall and resume normal flying....
"You're quite the entertainer, but the show's over with this next shot." -Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas A. Shilage (gasping)
Such super maneuverability is designed to get the best angle of attack on another aircraft . Not to fake out a modern AtA missile (EG Aim-9X/AA-11 Archer) Counter measures are there for that purpose.
Imagine there is an enemy fighter 3 to 400 feet behind you and you pull this shit and rock his world with an a couple rounds from your auto cannon. Shit would be wild.
@Finalshot92 this manoeuvre shows that other combat manoeuvres can be achieved tighter than comparable aircraft. watch my heavily armed su 35 cobra video.
The secret of this is weight balance. Notice nose and the back end thing behind the engines where the braking chute is installed inside. Wings are centered so when the pilot pulls yoke the aircraft needs to be driven just a bit. The rest is made of a balance ratio of the nose to rear sections.
@@JudahMusicArchive Nope lol. Various health issues mean that being a fighter pilot isn't going to happen for me sadly. Even commercial flying is out of the question.
@@JudahMusicArchive Cheers man, doing fine generally speaking, just stuff like glasses and a ridiculous number of food allergies lol. Crossing fingers I'll be able to get my private license at some point, but that's insanely expensive, and that's without looking into owning, or part owning an aircraft.
That's the point. The immense drag from the aircraft turning perpendicular to the airstream causing the plane to slow dramatically. If there's a hostile slotted in on your tail and you performed this maneuver rather than a typical break turn, you'd have a firing solution on the agressor.
Clearly you have no idea how a pitched aerial battle would go IRL. Not to mention that a cobra at the right time, let alone something like a kulbit could very easily cause a missile to compeletely overshoot if it wasn't already directly behind the craft in question. There are a ridiculously large number of techniques that can be used to dodge a missile in modern aircraft, especially one that you have the potential advanced warning of in the case of a BVR missile.
An AIM-260 missile fired from beyond visual range from a stealth interceptor with the radar cross section of a gnat doesn’t care about fancy maneuvers.
The F-22 is designed to dominate at both BVR and in dogfights at the same time. The F-22 doesn't do just one thing. Modern fighters cost to much to be limited to a single task. That's the philosophy 4th generation fighters were designed to follow until we suddenly needed them to do more. These are the lessons learned that led to the developement of the Raptor and F-35.
помимо отклонения вектора тяги большую роль играет аэродинамика фюзеляжа и развесовка.. Более того, ты прав - на многих истребителях сегодня стоит отклоняемый вектор.. но посмотри внимательно, в каких пределах отклоняются сопла того же раптора и сушек.. Во всех видео, где раптор выполняет акробатику,обрати внимание,что он это делает только в двоичной системе (по направлению движения). То,что выполняет 30ки-35-37ки в трех координатах, раптору не по силам..
Yes, this was Eveny Frolov with Su37 (Su27M-711) at their best. Of course this was prototype aircraft for the SU company way back in the 90s. Sure, it had TVC already, but my quiestion is, how come modern days figthters like F22, SU35S, SU30xxx and even technological demonstrator mIG29OVT are not able to do this. At least not on youtube.
+eulereix this is pretty simple: maneuvers like this are useless in an aerial confrontation. There is no point in wasting time, resources and accepting drawbacks to project a plane able to do this. Modern Era planes are based on speed, low radar profile and as much avionic as possible to increase missile hit rate.
Amazing! The Russians can put out many variants of great aircraft in a short time, while the US just plods along with cost overruns, aircraft which don't work, etc.
Wrong. The U.S plods along with aircraft that DO work, but end up costing so much that we can't even buy a single one (coughRAH-66Comanchecough). Russia can make planes that DO work, too, except that they don't cost as much as a whole planet's supply of gold.
Funny, I thought it was Russia that was 20 years late on their fifth-generation plane that they still don't have functioning engines for...Why? You are a fucking idiot if you believe that the Russians don't struggle with those same things. The ONLY difference is that they have government controlled media and therefore their struggles are more private. Pull your head out of your ass you are simply wrong.
It's defenitely impressive. I believe the idea is not to fake out a missile but rather to get angle on the enemy aircraft to fire its own missiles. Most pilots would probably shit their pants witnessing this maneuver. Unless they fly F22's or Su37's that is lol.
