Date Posted: 2007-11-15 21:17:50.
Subject: F/A-22A vs Su-47
Name: echo419
Message: I just want to settle this thing here and now. Im going to give you three situations that the f-22 and su-47 could get in.

DOG FIGHT
In a dog fight a Su-47 would be dubbed the winner. Yes the F-22 has great manuverability but the forward swept wings of a Su-47 are designed to make it have tight turning and operations at sub sonic speeds, speeds in which dog fighting takes place. Yes, the F-22 is equiped with side winder missiles but the Su-47 has a new one the the Russians have designed. Once the pilot locks on to a target and fires a missle, that missile will go were ever the pilot looks. So even if the F-22 gets behind the Su-47, its new missile tech will trash the F-22. Not to mention that for the longest time Russia has been all about the dog fights. When American came with our F-4's(planes that only had missiles) and they came with Migs Fishbeds (planes with guns) the Mig would win most of the time.

BVRC(Beyond Visual Range Combat)
In this situation an F-22 would win. Everyone says that when an F-22 opens it's bomb bay doors it's stealth vanishes. True, but they only open for a fraction of a second and they dont plan to use only one F-22 durng combat. What im saying is they have 2 F-22's flying at once to shot down targets. What they have is a lead F-22 that is using passive radar systems to find targets. It will never shot a missile and will never be seen on radar. Now there is a trailing F-22 thats far away out of enemey radar. The lead F-22 transmits data to the trailing one and the trailing one fires a missile. The trailing one will never be seen because it is out of visual and radar range. Not to mention that the F-22 and Apache are the only aircraft that can engage multple enemeys at once. that means once one missile is fired they can move on to the next target. Fire and Forget....

GENERAL
If the F-22 and Su-47 were in battle F-22 wins. Its tactic is to shoot you down way before you even get close. They did a real test. 1 F-22 vs 4 F-16's. Before the F-16's finished getting to crusing altittude they had been shot down. American has always been about getting the technical advantage. The USAF wants its forces to have a 1-10 ratio. For ever 10 planes theres and F-22 waiting for them. The Su-47 is also way to expensive to put into production. The Russias only have it for export not import. No they wont let America have one so dont ask. Overall here are my findings:

F-22 is a better plane
Su-47 looks way cooler.