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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    convertiplane. Others like the British Harrier jump jet use thrust vectoring or other direct thrust techniques. The first powered-lift ratings on a civilian...
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    aircraft has three variants: the initial production model J-20A, the thrust-vectoring J-20B, and twin-seat aircraft teaming capable J-20S. Descending from...
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    include a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such...
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    turbofan engines, 93.1 kN (20,900 lbf) thrust each engines with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional thrust-vectoring nozzles planned for testing. dry, 153 kN...
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    blade pitch change, thrust vectoring in the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation is rapid. Cyclorotors can produce lift and thrust at high advance...
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    Sukhoi Su-57 (category Three dimension thrust vectoring aircraft)
    system being the key difference. The aircraft employs thrust vector control (TVC) where the vectoring nozzles' rotational axes are each canted at an angle...
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    roll authority would be accomplished through thrust-vectoring, possibly by modifying the extant 2-D vectoring nozzles of the F-22. These changes would in...
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    available for AESA radar. The serial production aircraft does not have thrust vectoring control as previously planned. There were references in the late 1980s...
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    produce both roll and yaw by vectoring each engine nozzle differently; this allows the aircraft to create thrust vectoring moments about all three rotational...
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    ship using a vertical launching system (VLS). It has a booster with thrust vectoring capability. The missile launched from a submarine torpedo tube has...
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    Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (category Two dimension thrust vectoring aircraft)
    with enhanced thrust vectoring controls and no aerodynamic surface backup. The aircraft was to be solely controlled by thrust vectoring, without featuring...
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  • cars Vector M12 Vector W2 Vector W8 Vector WX-3 Vector SRV8 Thrust vectoring, directing aircraft jet thrust Vector (Battle Angel Alita) Vector (comics)...
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    afterburning thrust for speeds up to Mach 2 in level flight and 1,350 km/h speed at low altitude for non-canard variants. Canted thrust vectoring is used in...
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    Rockwell-MBB X-31 (category Three dimension thrust vectoring aircraft)
    X-31 is an experimental jet aircraft designed to test fighter thrust vectoring technology. It was designed and built by Rockwell and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm...
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  • B-1B. Nozzles for vectored thrust include fixed geometry Bristol Siddeley Pegasus and variable geometry F119 (F-22). The thrust reversers on some engines...
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    Laval nozzle, lightweight propellant tanks, small light turbopumps, thrust vectoring, the smoothly-throttled liquid fuel engine, regenerative cooling, and...
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    entered a bid, in competition with General Electric's F414, to supply a thrust vectoring variant of the EJ200 to power the Indian HAL Tejas Mk2 after both the...
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    For the XF9-1, the XVN3-1 three-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzle is available, which can deflect thrust up to 20 degrees in all circumference directions...
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    Taildog was highly manoeuvrable through the use of thrust vectoring for all flight control. Vectoring was accomplished by rotating small vanes into the...
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  • Martin F-35B Lightning II (Thrust Vectoring) Lockheed XFV-1 "Salmon" (tailsitter) Lockheed XV-4 Hummingbird (vectored thrust with entrained air) LTV XC-142...
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