True, to varying extents… but the 47 is well known and also just shocking similar in design elements and proportions to the Macross … not-a-gundam.
Grumman X-29:
Think it first flew in 84, definitely earlier than the su-47, but also, purely an experimental tech demonstrator, whereas the su-47 was at least ostensibly, potentially, going to be an actual combat aircraft.
I was always a fan of the YF-19
Isn’t that just the su 47, but anime?
Or … did … the Russians… make anime space jet plane thing… real?
This wing config it for high speed IIRC and has been tried loads of times, the russian (korbut?) wasn’t the first.
True, to varying extents… but the 47 is well known and also just shocking similar in design elements and proportions to the Macross … not-a-gundam.
Grumman X-29:
Think it first flew in 84, definitely earlier than the su-47, but also, purely an experimental tech demonstrator, whereas the su-47 was at least ostensibly, potentially, going to be an actual combat aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing
Apparently, quite a lot of people have been futzing about with concept, for a long time.
Grumman X-29 had forward swept wings in the 1980s.
Likely both the Anime and the su-47 got some inspiration from the X-29.
Which transformer is this? Need a model kit asap.