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Old 12th Jan 2015, 12:22
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melmothtw
 
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If you look you'll see that it has pistons on it so I guess that it is to aid raising the canopy.
It could be, I guess, but as the Su-27 doesn't feature this design feature you'd have to ask why the Chinese carbon-copy does. Curious.
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