RE: interesting take10 Aug 2022 14:22
Blue, comparing a civil airliner like the A320 with a Certified 2.5g limit to a eurofighter typhoon with 9g is chalk and cheese.
Military aircraft have to operate on poor or unprepared landing strips as well as carriers, many modern military aircraft have fly by wire controls but the earliest soviet/Russian was the SU27. Not sure about the frog foot. Many systems have LRUs so depending on what’s damaged it’s an easy swap, similar for external panels where speed tape isn’t enough.
There will certainly be an element of parts robbing from airframes with more substantial damage but that’s the nature of wartime make do and mend.
Oh and I don’t design aircraft, but I do work in the industry.