Thrust vectoring, also known as thrust vector control (TVC), is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the...
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Gimbaled thrust is the system of thrust vectoring used in most rockets, including the Space Shuttle, the Saturn V lunar rockets, and the Falcon 9. In a...
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engine. Rotary wing aircraft use rotors and thrust vectoring V/STOL aircraft use propellers or engine thrust to support the weight of the aircraft and to...
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Supermaneuverability (section Thrust vectoring)
increasingly used in recent years to advance maneuverability via the use of thrust vectoring engine nozzles. Russian emphasis on close-range slow-speed supermaneuverability...
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Fourth-generation fighter (section Thrust vectoring)
Sukhoi Su-27, the first aircraft to publicly display thrust vectoring in pitch. Combined with a thrust-to-weight ratio above unity, this enabled it to maintain...
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were produced and used for tests and demonstrations; one example had thrust-vectoring engines and was in turn redesignated the Su-37. A sole Su-35UB two-seat...
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Shenyang WS-10 (section Thrust vectoring)
improved thrust of 142 kilonewtons (32,000 lbf). WS-10G – thrust vectoring variant generating 152–155 kilonewtons (34,000–35,000 lbf) of thrust during testing;...
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Saturn AL-31 (section Thrust vectoring)
The vectoring nozzle is used primarily in the pitch plane, but unlike the AL-37FU, the canting of the vectoring axes allow differential vectoring to produce...
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to Mach 1.8. The F119's nozzles incorporate thrust vectoring that enable them to direct the engine thrust ±20° in the pitch axis to give the F-22 enhanced...
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Sukhoi Su-37 (category Three dimension thrust vectoring aircraft)
the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association before having thrust-vectoring nozzles installed. It also had updated flight- and weapons-control...
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