MAKS 2017 - Russian Knights, Su-30SM Aerobatic Team - HD 50fps

Another superb flight display by the Russian Knights, one of the world's best aerobatic demonstration teams, now featuring the newly introduced Su-30SM fighter jet as their flagship!

This flight was performed at Zhukovskiy (Moscow, Russia) on July 22nd 2017 for the MAKS 2017 airshow.

Background music; the well-renowned Saturn-Lyulka symphonic roarchestra composed by 12x Saturn AL-31FP (АЛ-31ФП) turbofans, a few thousand happy spectators and a russian guy on the mic.

If you haven't seen this yet, here are my best videos of the team:

The team performed an amazing show this past year at MAKS 2017, combining their usual team formation flights with duo, solo and thrust vectoring demonstrations to complement the flight performance, making it one of the most varied and complete demonstrations in the entire world!

The Russian Knights (Русские Витязи, Russkiye Vityazi, in russian) is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. Originally formed on April 5, 1991 at the Kubinka Air Base as a team of six Sukhoi Su-27s, the team was the first to perform outside the Soviet Union in September 1991 when they toured the United Kingdom. The SU-27s were replaced with six Su-30M2s later on, and recently the whole team migrated again to the SU-30SM multirole fighter featuring canards, thrust vectoring and dual cockpits.

In this sense they became the second aerobatic team in the world to use thrust vectoring jets (first were the Russian Falcons that performed with the same aircraft as soon as 2015 and later replaced them by SU-35S). It is noteworthy as well that apart from traditional formation flight exhibition, the team is starting to introduce post-stall maneuvers that take advantage of the thrust vectoring nozzles into the solo display section of their show.

The team operates from the Kubinka air force base, west of moscow, in conjunction with the 'Strizhi' (Swifts) aerobatic team that still use MiG-29 fighter aircraft. From time to time it is possible to see both teams performing together.

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[erfanurrahmanbhuiyan]

Airguardian amazing camera work as always. Looking forward to the Bangladesh Air Force Sukhoi Su-30/Su-35 once it gets delivered, then i will also be able to enjoy it in reality, as there is a day and night difference between videos and reality isn’t it, buddy? :)

[pashapasovski]

People don't understand how big those bad boys are! They are almost 30% more massive than MIG29s, yet they are so graceful that it's hard to separate its real purpose, from something that is made for art! I guess, deadly beautiful, is just about the best description for these masterpieces!

[ТатьянаКазакова-гъ]

БРАВО !!! Высший пилотаж, красота полета, наши пилоты- супер ассы воздушного океана !!! Спасибо за красивое видео !!! Успехов и удачи !

[Antilagburst]

Beautiful Cobra! That’s what I wanted to see
Nice camera work!!

[keithallver]

Amazing flying! And the Su-30SM has always been my favorite variant of the venerable SU-27. Another excellent video Brother. Thanks!

[КритикКритикович-ыч]

Красавцы просто супер пилотаж, крутые маневренные характеристики .
Спасибо за видео, это впечатляет . 😎

[ryanmoeller]

Great video good sir!! I'm an American but I LOVE Russian aircraft. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to seeing more from ya. 👍👍👍

[КритикКритикович-ыч]

Виртуозы, мастера своего дело это просто чудо воздухе .
Прекрасные кадры всё эффектно получилось . 😎

[SuperSlikman]

Группой летали почти все время не используя форсаж. Невероятно

[Владимир.З-кп]

Отличное видео! Надеюсь с МАКС 2019 мы тоже увидим? ) удачи, спасибо!

[delaynomore]

Love Russian Knight most！Hope they can come to Airshow China 2020 at Zhuhai ！