Are we really in advance with vectored thrust?

[DaveW]

Amazing display of vectored thrust. Display starts a couple of minutes into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Cgxy7N-V0

[DaveW]

Is anybody starting to think it may be a fake? There is no dust thrown up either from the runway and movement from jet blast on the bushes when they pass over them and it would take some downward thrust to hold a jet up vertically. Also if you notice the quick views of the people in the videos they have not moved from beginning to end of the video. Also it would be a bit risky getting that low to the runway since the pilots cannot see behind them unless there was a camera in the tail since they are facing up towards the sky? They do have shadows crossing the runway though. My friend suggested it is models, but that seems a bit simplistic?

This one shows two different makes of Russian planes at the same location.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRqootdssa0

However the US are doing similar again in this video with no dust being kicked up and no signs of jet blast?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJqACghaCs

[autodikaktos]

I was very impressed by the video, but yes, it is indeed "fake." It appears to be a demo of an RC simulator program. I'm blown away that computer graphics like this are available now, to be quite honest.

[DaveW]

I found this one describing vectored thrust as used by the US and Russia too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3LHN3-2uNU

[greenknight]

Yes, certainly it's fake. If you expand the caption, it says so quite clearly: "Filmed action from the Aerofly RC 8 flight simulator."