A buddy on my squad forum posted this amazing picture of a pair of close-formation Su-33's I thought I might show you all.

http://www.alldesktop.ru/im/files/298_ext.jpg

Nice find. That's my new background.

I rate it a 7.23 on my cool scale

Is that from LOMAC?

THose aren't 33's. 33's don't carry the R-77.

CGI.

Two questions:
1)If it is not an Su-33 what would it be?
2)How the hell can you tell it has R-77 under its wings?

I love the paint job on those aircraft. Anyone know if that paint scheme has been done by anyone?

It's definately a Su-33. The only other single-pilot aircraft with forward canard surfaces is the Su-35. But the 35 has a noticable extended rear boom.

You can see the R-77s on the second outmost pylons, the ones with the mesh fins. I don't know whether this is an upgraded Su-33 that can carry the R-77 or whether they were just mounted for this photo-shoot and can't be fired.

Its not a real picture, its a composite. Look at the vapour, bad paint up job, and the sky dont look to real either.

The planes do look nice tho.

Good enough to be my new background on my computer.

This is defintely not a real picture, and thus not a photo-shoot. That's why I asked if it was from LOMAC (and it doesn't look like it is).

I have no idea if it is in fact a photograph or a rendering but either way it looks pretty darn cool to me and thought I would share it.

Why not post your own screenshots so we can see real LOMAC stuff?

Well, if I were to post pictures of me they would mostly be scenes of smoking holes where I have made like a lawn dart into the side of a hill....

But I was not intending to post a real-life photograph nor was I aiming to post an in game screen shot. Just a neat picture I saw.

But once I upgrade to an AMD Athalon64 3500 XP on a Asus A8V Deluxe (with possibly an upgrade from my current ATI 9800 Pro....) I will feel inspired to do some ingame photo snapping

Those are not 33s or 35s, it's the Su-37 duplicated to make as if two were flying together.

The Su-37 had TVC and crashed a few years ago.