F-2 Multirole Fighter (Infographics)

Speaking of design, Russia just made it’s own copy of that design, Su-57, just 20 years later.

Not a copy. 20 years later, 20 years more advanced tech… They got the better deal. They deliberately waited till the tech got mature enough. Learned from the mistskes the U.S. made and avoided them.

So not a copy because they waited 20 years the US tech to get mature enough so they can learn… sounds like a copy with extra steps to me.

Wrong. They only avoided the mistskes and added their own design. U.S. did the same in the late 60s early 70s when they designed the F-15, they made their own long range interceptor similar to the Mig-25 in configuration, but they went for a multirole edge while the Mig-25 was a pure interceptor for speed and less for maneuverability.

Not a copy – has different design priorities – the commonality is simply from the broader developments in aviation engineering dynamic flows – developed from advanced computational simulations.

It looks almost the same, but not so neat, probably designers were in a hurry to it to India as PAK-FA and now they have to keep it since nobody replaced the Indian offer.

Have you noticed that most mid-range vehicles essentially look the same now, with image differentials primarily in their detailing and badges – why, because the basic understandings of aerodynamics and reduced drag co-efficiencies are now well understood from last two decades of computational dynamic flow simulators, creating a baseline that every manufacturer can access and uses – resulting in more or less the same flow based body shapes. Other fields of transport based engineering have followed similar patterns of development, based around knowledge developed in computational simulators, relative to design-brief priorities.

Indeed West was always in front of the East at vehicles design.

Not really. First man in space… First ICBM… First soace station…. First Mach 3 fighter… First 3D vector thrust jet… First titanium double hull sub… First coax rotor helo… List goes on…

It can go on and on but they are still small comparing to the other ones, making them exceptions.

According to whom? You? Dont make me laugh please… U.S. is still buying rocket tech from Russia. RD-180 is powering the Atlas V The RD-181 is powering the Antares. ESA also used the Russian Rokot at French Guyana, now they have switched to the Soyuz 2. Russia is helping build the new ITER fusion reactor in South France, its based on the Russian TOKAMAK design. Russia is building 80 nuclear reactors world wide. Russia built the core of the ISS based on the Mir 2 design, Russian segment controls life support, navigation, propulsion for the entire station. Russia brought up all the U.S. astronauts for the past 9 years… I can go on if you want….

It doesn’t look like you are one step away from laughing but rather ceying. Those very few things are called ‘cherry picking’, little girl.

Whats ceying:)? You are getting passive agressive again… Try to lower your cocaine ration ;)

Is quite clear you know nothing about advanced level engineering and how it develops in a competitive environment – you are merely all about pointless, and cheap, partisan rhetoric.

Yeah, that’s why the West copy the East and not the oposite.

They often do indeed.

Both the Nazi Tiger tank, and Panther tank, were a direct response to the Soviet T-34 tank, with Panther’s sloped frontal glacis plate a direct copy of the T-34. Dolt.

Sure thing buddy, Russia didn’t copy anything from Germans.

Thats why Kamaz trucks won 17times the most difficult rally on the planet, the Dakar…

Sure, just 20 years behind. Like almost everything.