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Russia’s Legendary Su-27 Fighter Jet Still Second to None in Close Air Combat
Back in August 1992, a group of Russian Air Force Su-27s made a friendly visit to the USAF air base Langley. During that visit a proposition was made to the American side to have a demonstration dogfight between Su-27 and F-15.The flight involved one Su-27UB, one F-15D and one F-15C.
The Su-27 rose to the challenge and triumphed.
The F-15D was not able to shake the Su-27 from its tail: using only minimum afterburners and maximum non-afterburning thrust the Russian fighter without much effort managed to stay behind the F-15D, whose engines were set to full afterburning thrust.
During this chase, the Su-27’s AOA never exceed 18 degrees. At the same time Su-27 faced with the same task easily lost the F-15C and was soon on its tail and not long after that the F-15D became another target.
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