Threat Brief: SU-30 

Gonky is the most Humble Pilot i've seen and he has fought some crazy airplanes. From Raptors to Sukhois and Migs. What a badass!

You can’t lie through she’s a beautiful bird

People who only watch the full Monday night show are missing out. The extra footage edited in really makes it worth an extra watch. This one is particularly cool!

I lost it with the breakdown of the conversation about trust vectoring. That went downhill real quick.

Gonky's openion is always unbiased!! love the hear him always

i identify as metric unit and calling me commie unit is offensive

Interestring chat about the SU-30. With regards to the 130 rounds for the 30mm canon I read that the pilot uses the IRST seeker for aiming the aerial target & it only needs 3-5 rounds to destroy the target.

I believe the nozzles are typically angled outwards at 5° along the 0° plane, but are capable of swiveling 360° with a max deflection of 15°

The gesture gonky made about thrust vectoring is very popular in Greece lol. Basicly means " I don't give a f&#@k" . Great show guys, always enjoy watching. Su-30 is a cool plane, rear visibility looks horrible from the back seat, should have had a bubble canopy. Russian helmets look very goofy.

The tvc nozzles are canted like a V shape, they are 2D, not 3D, they can move 15 degs and canted at 30-32 ish degs as remember, so it has a bit of yaw control at high AoA, but because it is canted, the effective pitch control is around 10degs, compared to the F22 20 degs which gives the raptor better pitch control (i guess :v) but no yaw control, the yaw control is for the stabilators with some black magic Fly-by-wire.

"The Su-30MKI's AL-31FP powerplant built on the earlier AL-31FU, adding two-plane thrust vectoring nozzles are mounted 32 degrees outward to longitudinal engine axis (i.e. in the horizontal plane) and can be deflected ±15 degrees in one plane. The canting allows the aircraft to produce both roll and yaw by vectoring each engine nozzle differently; this allows the aircraft to create thrust vectoring moments about all three rotational axes, pitch, yaw and roll. Engine thrust is adjusted via a conventional engine throttle lever as opposed to a strain-gauge engine control stick. The aircraft is controlled by a standard control stick. The pilot can activate a switch for performing difficult maneuvers; while this is enabled, the computer automatically determines the deflection angles of the swiveling nozzles and aerodynamic surfaces."

It’s a heavy fighter/multirole shouldn’t it be compared to a F-15 ?

U guys are awesome 🇺🇸

Gonky auditioning for a Referee job with @NFL with that thrust vectoring hand demo🙌🏾 It’ssssss Gooooood from 35 yards🤣

Poor guy... he really had it hard, trying not to hurt them😂

Su-30MKI/ MKM/ MKA/ SM (Russian Version) got the Bars Radar which is a PESA. Russian Navy recently received the Su-30SM2 variant with radar and engine from Su-35. (To reduce production and maintenance cost and improve performance).

Know what's interesting, this is just something I read from a UK article a couple years back. According to this article, the Typhoon actually tested out thrust vectoring nozzles on the Typhoon and they actually built a number of the nozzles in case in a future conflict if needed they can get them rolling out asap. P.S. Idk If I believe it, but hey, the internet never lies....

The Su 30 is still a worthy opponent.

Thrust vectoring hand signals were hilarious!! 🤣🤣

also cannon is single barrel not minigun style so ammo does last a bit longer compared to minigun style 6 barrel 20mm f16, just in rate of fire

The vectoring can do elevator, roll and rudder by the nozzles moving in an x and y axis

Great intel on the jet but brother, did that convo go downhill quick when it started about thrust vectoring. De-generation-X anybody?😆 That was funny. This was great to watch. Thank you.

It’s V shape thrust vectoring.. meaning it can pitch up and down and also yaw .. when it wants to pitch up both nozzles point to the upper part of the v shape ( left engine points up and to the left, right engine up and to the right).. pitch down ( left engine nozzle points down and to the right, right engine down and to the left) when it wants to yaw to the right ( left engine nozzle points down and to the right and right engine points up and to the right) …V shape .. pretty cool Flcs

It's weird how they put so much emphasis on dogfighting, but gave it so little roof for ammo. I guess it's equally bad on all the Flankers?

Great intel..

Su30mk2v vietnam and venezuela , su30mkm malaysia , su30mk -mk2 china , su30mki india. The vietnam-vene-china mk2 are more air to ground ( for vietnam one more air to sea ) , indian and malaysia su-30 are more gucci variant and focus on air to air

I think Gonky must have "stepped in it" when it came to talking about the thrust vectoring 🤣🤣🤣

J-10 and J-20 threat briefs when?

Regardless of capabilities, the Su-27 family to me is the most badass looking modern fighter jet.

Gonky should share his experience of going up against the SU-30 when he was with RMAF.

He says "only 150 rounds" while not realizing that 150 rounds at a rate of fire of 1800 rounds per minute lasts exactly as long as 500 rounds at 6000 rounds per minute with the Vulcan.

Mover how does the viper nozzle go? We need to know.

My fav combat ace jet..next to the super hornet when I play

None of the Su-30s actually have an AESA radar. India is now developing their own homegrown SuperSukhoi upgrade which will include an Indian made AESA radar including a bunch of other stuff to maybe bring it on par with an F-15EX. But fun fact is, no Russian 4th gen fighter today has an AESA radar except for the Mig-35. And the Mig-35 is strictly for export and isn't even used by the Russians

Why is there no info in the description box about how to buy Gonky's books, besides Mover's and WOMBAT's? Gonky isn't going to sell any if he doesn't promote them, or let Mover and WOMBAT tell us about them if he doesn't want to.

Idc if Flanker's are good or not, they are so sexy

SU 30 MKI is a beast.

gonk don't take that crap. LOL

all jokes aside that flanker's thrust vectoring system is only in pitch right?

No AESA on Su-30’s.

😂 😂 😂 😂 hilarious you guys are funny asf

My parents said they'd get me a type rating for Christmas.

You giving threat briefs now????

Baby Face Gonky: The only adult in the room

Su-57 next??

Gonky has good technique.

Su30MKi is a russian fighter with french, Israeli and russian accessories and missile and what makes it stand out is with that brahmos missile.

Doing comparison -30 and -35. Does transition from multi-role to air superiority indicate a trend? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l7u88Ze9F6A.html p.s. Was just spidering Rafale F4. *_Solid!_*

Did he get DEI on us with “2 men I dont like that?”

I think Su-30 nozzles are both north-south and east-west (vertical and horizontal), where the F-22 is just north-south. The Su-35 and Su-57 are full circumference rotation (360 degrees). Russians also have the 360 nozzles available for latest MiG-29, possibly for the MiG-35 (export version of latest 29). See also the MiG-29 OVT demos for performance.

IRBIS radar will be handed down to Russian SU 30s. But only after SU 35 gets it's AESA. Which will be SU 57's radar.

little OT... any inside info on today's shootdown of a Turkish drone? Was it fat Amy or a Viper?

I'll be very interested in your analysis of the F16's performance in the Ukraine after a few weeks in when the old airframes outdated passed useful life lawn dart everywhere. How can the F16s even operate from West to East Ukraine without tankers and those will never stay in the air longer than 5 mins if they don't rise above 1,000 ft? I don't understand even the exercise of giving the Ukrainians the aged out airframes except to field test the AI that has never lost a combat sortie against a human pilot at least in the sims. That would be interesting and the only purpose a non-aviator can think of...

Generaly, its true for pretty much all USSR originated military equipment. The hard stats are usualy quite good, the soft stats are usually a lot worse. Thrust is good, payload is good, thrust to wight is decent, top speed is good, range is... well decent But looking at the softer parameters, empty weight 18 tons, that is not great, size, well its enormous, fuel burn is also very high, and it have a large maintenance trail. While its not that much worse than a F14, F14 is 22 years older. It was actually closer to retiering than entering service when Su 30 come around. While Su 30 kinematic is great.. there is a issue. High kinematics aircraft was push to the front during Vietnam war becasue that beyond line of sight missiles didn´t work as well as expected, so US airforce was pulled into kinematic fights where planes like F104 was out turned. This really resulted in 2 things. Better kinematics, but also better beyond line of sight weaponry. And this is not only the missiles, but the whole combat system with awacs, radar and everything, and lots and lots of red vs blue training. This turned out to work. There been very few engagement in anger in real life where kinematics was the actually important factor. Its may not be unimportant, but its not the main importance. Russia is still in the sort of late Vietnam war mindset. They have had a lot of problem with long range missiles engaging there own aircraft's. The issue that Russia do is that they are really not doing much of red vs blue training. And well that is mostly true for China as well. China did some red vs blue training with some of there Asian neighbors back a few years and the result was catastrophic and they needed to redesign most of J20. This might be an actuall issue for the west, becasue this push J20 from being sort of a propaganda aircraft to something that might actually be half decent.

Has Gonky been raving?

I keep thinking wombat is AJ Hawk

The Malaysian MKM uses PESA

Such a sexy aircraft.

Jajaa gonky 😂

the new su-30m2 the russians are building themselves has that same huge PESA Ibris that they put on the su-35 - not as good as the AN/APG-83 going on the new vipers but functionally good enough against other 4/4.5 gen fighters. I think they have the same effective range as the 83 AESA. It's not clear they have the r37-m strapped on as of yet. they were delivered a batch this past December apparently.

Don’t make fun of Gonky he’s trying his best!

Перевод в студию 😂

Imagine Russia was allowed to join NATO, a Flanker with top notch western AESA and Meteors!!!

"Commi units of range". OK, maybe I lack sence of humour, but this gets me on. Most of the world, including parts of former British empire, uses metric units and there is nothing communist about it! And only Russians are wierd enought to use it in aviation.

Watching these guys try to explain thrust vectoring, reminds me of all the 'hEs A fIgHtEr PiLoT' qualifiers UFO nuts throw out as validation. Like they engineered the planes they fly, or something. FM, guys. Thrust vectoring is FM.

The problem with american planes is they were late to the game with IRST

All they keep doing is modifying the SU-27 and calling it a "new" aircraft...

I like hearing about other fighters. I forget that other countries also have fighters. I guess I’m so American that I think we are the only ones that have bad ass fighters.

Real unbias 😂

His hand motion explained it perfectly they're just boomers

For God sake, how hard is it to say the SU 30 3D vectoring nozzles, unlike the F-22 which only vectors up and down. I wasn’t hard was it for supposably qualified people with brains, not hard and the SU 30 is a very comparable aircraft. I don’t know why they always take the piss out of the pilots that would be flying these aircraft. I am all for supporting your own country but don’t completely disrespect others in a real dogfight. The majority of pilots will have a bloody hard time up close with one of these aircraft and it probably would not end well for an F-15 or F 18, or possibly even an F-16

IRBIS radar will be handed down to Russian SU 30s. But only after SU 35 gets it's AESA. Which will be SU 57's radar.