The American edition of The National Interest, almost every day writing about the Russian armed, It decided not to go out of the usual way of the reader. This time of publication, the authors decided to tell you about “very secret way”, whereby Russian Su-35 is able to knock down unobtrusive American F-22.
In his article on the subject, David Archibal notes, that the American fighter F-22 no IR search and tracking systems, that track enemy aircraft on the heat engine. Also on the plane there are no side-looking radar station, without which a fighter can not track the movement of enemy missiles, but to move in a straight line trajectory to the plane.
All these drawbacks author connects with the early stages of the development of the F-22, started back in 1981 year. AT 1989 year, when fighter prototypes have been developed, USAF limited value of all electronic systems, which can be equipped with the F-22, nine million dollars, which led to the abandonment of the search for IR systems and maintenance and some other systems, including side radars.
The author concludes, that the lack of it is the side radar and infrared systems on the F-22 will allow the Russian Su-35 shoot down these expensive aircraft.
Basically, perhaps the author and rights, referring to the American fighter vulnerability, but this issue should be better to ask experts. But there is just another – why only from the Russian Su-35? Or other modern aircraft of Russian and not only production, cause harm to the F-22 will not be able?
