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Comments by "Thetequilashooter1" (@Thetequilashooter1) on "Fighter Pilots React to SU-57 Felon Engines and Cockpit" video.

@ First off, it’s not called paint. It’s radar absorbent material, RAM. The US has been building stealth fighters for over 40 years, has produced many varieties, and it has a significant lead in the field. Russia is not known for making high tech equipment, even for domestic goods. It’s well known that Russia is not in the business of making high tech products on mass scale efficiently. It’s why Russia buys US made microchips on the black market. The downed S-70 itself had over 30 western made microchips in it. Weapons are being produced to be able to fit inside the F-35. India rejected the Su-57 because they weren’t impressed at all with it, and yet Russia to this day is still trying to convince them to buy it making the deal sweeter each time. The most stealthy Russian aircraft is the S-70 Okhotnik. What’s comical is what was found at its wreckage. See below. Initial assessments of the wreckage cast doubt on Russian claims about the drone’s advanced capabilities. Contrary to Russian propaganda, the S-70 does not appear to feature the stealth polymers or advanced artificial intelligence systems that were advertised. “This is no advanced combat drone,” a Ukrainian defense expert said. “It’s more like a glider equipped with basic flight capabilities and radio controls.” Additionally, the use of the Su-57 manned fighter as a command relay for the drone was seen as inefficient and highlighted the limitations of Russian networking capabilities. The S-70 lacks the robust stealth technologies that Russia has claimed to possess, and it does not feature the kind of network-centric systems comparable to NATO’s Link-16. Instead, the drone relies on a basic radio link for guidance, limiting its operational flexibility.. The Russian Ministry of Defense has long promoted the S-70 as a “loyal wingman” to the Su-57, capable of engaging in coordinated missions and using a wide range of airborne weaponry. However, the incident casts doubt on the drone’s ability to execute sophisticated combat maneuvers, including the use of air-to-air missiles or precision-guided weaponry. I’m just as confused about the F-47 having canards, too. They’re well known to increase an aircraft’s RCS. Maybe the plan isn’t to use them except when dogfighting. I don’t know.
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@ It doesn’t take a genius to know a fighter has poor stealth features. Here are some details released: A jet’s fan face produces a massive radar signature. Modern high-performance stealthy aircraft designs use ‘S’ shaped ducts to hide their engines from most or all line of sight aspects, with radar return scrambling baffles being built under the duct surface scrambling returns even more. Some aircraft, like the Super Hornet, use a slotted baffle that covers the fan faces of their engine, which are hidden only partially by the aircraft’s duct shape. This measure reduces the aircraft’s frontal radar signature, but it is less effective than an s shaped duct and may impact certain aspects of engine performance. Many other features on the T-50 also put a high level of low observability in doubt. The Su-57 is not doing what a stealth fighter is meant to do, which is to perform deep strike missions into Ukraine. It’s not like the Israeli and U.S. F-35s strikes into Syria, or Israel’s into Iran, or USAF F-22 strikes deep inside Syria.
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@vladislavovi44 The F-35 actually has one of the best safety records of all fighters. The only reason it has more crashes is that over a thousand have been built, and cumulatively they’ve flown over one million flight hours. Where are you getting your information from because you really don’t know what you’re talking about?
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@vladislavovi44 I know my facts. That was a quote from when India first rejected the Su-57. You should check yours. Russia itself has admitted that stealth isn’t its most underlying concern when making the Su-57. Its RCS is huge in comparison to both the F-22 and F-35. Stealth wasn’t their only concern. See below. But New Delhi pulled out of the co-development deal in April 2018. According to Indian air force officials, the Su-57 was too expensive, poorly engineered and powered by old and unreliable engines. The Indians’ complaints illustrated the yawning gulf between stealth-warplane design and the actual production of radar-evading jets. It’s one thing to sketch an advanced warplane on paper. It’s quite another to build one and get it to work. Indian air force and defense ministry officials listed at least four “shortfalls … in terms of performance and other technical features”. The AL-41F engines fitted to the Su-57 were unreliable. The radar was inadequate. The airframe was poorly built, with serious implications for the jet’s stealth profile. And in light of these defects, $6 billion was too much to pay up front. But the allegations of sloppy construction appeared to be particularly serious. Besides posing an accident risk, low-quality construction can result in gaps and mismatched angles that elevate a plane’s radar signature. As early as 2013 it was apparent Sukhoi was having problems with quality control on the Su-57. At least one of the prototypes needed patches on its wings to keep from falling apart during high-stress maneuvers.
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@vladislavovi44 Just to put things into perspective, not one Russian weapon system has lived up to the hype created by Russian propaganda. Russia’s SAMs have repeatedly failed to protect strategic targets. The T-14 is nowhere to be seen. Russia’s army has been so depleted that it’s using donkeys, bicycles, golf carts, scooters, etc., on the front. Russia’s Black Sea fleet has gone into hiding. And Russia’s air force has been incapable of achieving air superiority over Ukraine’s old and significantly outnumbered air force. Even in the early days of the war when Ukraine had little to no aid Russia’s air force couldn’t achieve air superiority. And when a few thousand Wagner group soldiers were heading towards Moscow, Russia had no way to stop them and Putin had to fly away in fear. Wake up. Russia is not the military power you think it is. Any every piece of Russian equipment has been overhyped by Russian propaganda. The S-70 example I gave earlier is another perfect example.
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@ If the F-16 has the RIM-174 it will have more range, and more often than not the F-16 will be supported by AWACS. The Su-57 hasn’t even shown the ability to shoot its guns in flight or air to air missiles from internal bays in flight. The Su-57 is questioned if it’s truly even a 5th gen fighter. Russia’s longtime military partner India backed out of the partnership to develop the Su-57 because of issues like its lack of stealth features, engines, avionics, etc.
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@ronniaj What did they say that’s biased exactly?
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@ Just because you don’t like what is being told doesn’t make it biased.
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@alecfoster4413 They don’t control any of the skies over Ukraine. If they did, they’d be able to fly their own aircraft practically uncontested over that portion, which is not the case.
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@amrinder-0764g Russia has also got a lot of help from Iran and North Korea. And much of the equipment given by the west to Ukraine is from old stockpiles. Furthermore, the US has been the main supplier of weapons to Ukraine, and yet it only represents less than four percent of the US annual defense budget, in other words pocket change.
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@Z12IT No American pilots have been shot down over Ukraine. 😂 Stop watching Russian propaganda.
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@mirandela777 There’s no proof of the air to air kill that you’re stating, and Russia is well known for not being honest about what really happens. The falling debris of intercepted drones stories that just happens to coincidentally hit the target are getting old.
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@timatinaj1418 Wow, just one F-117 was shot down over Serbia. Big deal. Thousands of sorties were flown and the war was won with air pollution alone and minimal loss of life. Russia’s SAMs in the meantime have repeatedly failed to protect strategic targets. The Ukrainians have very effectively shown that Russia’s so called superior air defense systems are really nothing special.
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@johngeiger3770 Is that why Russia’s Su-35s and Su-34s have been shot down? What is very revealing is that the downed Su-34s have shown to have for navigation tapped on GPS devices that I can buy at my local Walmart.
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@QualityPen Russia is flying many thousands of fewer sorties than the U.S. did over Nam, and unlike Russia the US flew aircraft all over Nam.
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@svensvensson2724 If Russia owned the skies you’d see Russian fighters flying all over Ukraine, but that’s not the case.
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@ Not from what I’ve seen. I’ve seen HIMARS destroying numerous Russian targets; Patriot missiles shooting down Russian aircraft missiles; US javelins destroying Russian tanks and armored vehicles; US mines decimating Russian armored vehicles; etc. it’s gotten so bad for Russia that Russia is using donkeys and bicycles on the front. Yeah, that’s really impressive for what Russia thought at one time was the world’s best army.
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@ What happened to Russia’s three day war?
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@johngeiger3770 Yep, and Russia must be high on drugs to think it could win in three days when over three years has gone by.
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@ Russian officer’s calls have been intercepted where they told others that the war would only lead three days. Captured prisoners from the earlier days of the war also said the same thing. Even the Russian media on several occasions said that Russia would win in three days.
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@ Ukraine uses many kinds of drones, and they’re definitely not all wooden.
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@ LOL, they don’t all get shot down. There are numerous videos showing various types of drones striking Russian targets. Even the TOR air defense system has been shown launching missiles and missing the drones. Russia’s air defense systems have shown to be very vulnerable, failing repeatedly to protect strategic targets.
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@ No, you just can’t accept reality. It’s not just officer calls being intercepted, but relatives of military personnel saying the same thing. It happened many times, not just once, with sometimes the Russian officer being identified. There are also interviews of Russian prisoners saying they were told at the beginning it would last at most a week. The real question is how can you be so brainwashed to believe the Russian media after it’s lied so much?
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@sashazxtt How gullible can you be to believe Russian propaganda after it’s lied so much? It’s not just officer calls intercepted, but their relatives and friends. There are also Russian prisoners who said they were told the same. The Russian media, which is an extension of the government also said the war would last at most three days. Do you remember the first days of the war when Russian soldiers had very few supplies and were looting Ukrainian grocery stores for food and water? They weren’t prepared at all for a sustained conflict. You really can’t be this ignorant.
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@sashazxtt The only one saying that the Su-57 got a kill at 400 km is Russia, and there’s no proof of any sort to back it up. You should know better by now than to automatically believe the Russian media. It’s more dishonest than it’s honest.
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@toddcrookham515 Is that why rookie F-22 pilots who had less than 100 hours behind the stick came out undefeated against pilots with thousands of hours? Go to The Ready Room Channel and you will hear from an F-18C pilot who has gone up and the F-22 in exercises why the F-22 is absolutely dominant.
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@Max_Da_G I haven’t seen the Russian Knights do anything impressive. They aren’t like the demonstration fighters to the slightest degree, and they don’t show the essential maneuvers used in combat, I.e. instant and sustained turn rates, or the ability to recover from high-g turns.
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Why don’t you take your own advice and actually compare the YF-22 to the T-50? You won’t find protruding rivets or large gaps in the seams or poor welds on the F-22. These are all features that the Chinese actually made fun of. To this very day you still haven’t seen the Su-57 shoot an air to air missile from an internal bay, or even shoot its guns in flight. There is a fake release of an air to air missile shot, but other than it nothing from an internal bay has been shown (at least to my knowledge, and I monitor several defense forum sites)I’d like to see the Su-57 shooting a missile from an internal bay flying inverted like the F-22 has shown. These are essential needs for dogfighting. Plus, the F-22 first flew in 1997, and in 2005 it was fully operational. The PAK-FA (T-50/Su-57) first flew in 2010 January, and it wasn’t fully operational until 2020 December. Even though the F-22 has been in service for 15 years longer, Russia to date still has not made an aircraft that matches the F-22’s power, stealth, radars, situational awareness, sensor fusion or stealth.
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@chippyjohn1 You’re kidding right? We’re not talking about producing just one weapon system. The US military is also significantly larger and it has many missions globally. Just an example is the F-35 numbers compared to the Su-57. Over 1,100 F-35s have been built, while only 32 Su-57s have been built. Plus, Russia is involved in a very expensive war right now. You’re trying to compare apples to oranges.
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@claeswelinder5580 😂It’s nothing but bs.
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@Holztransistor If Russia had a true stealth fighter they would be conducting deep strike missions into Ukraine. It would be like how the U.S. and Israel have both flown deep strikes into Syria, and Israel into Iran taking out its S-300s with its F-35s. Instead they aren’t flying anywhere near contested air space. If they were truly stealth aircraft they would have more air to air kills, they’d control the skies, they would be taking out F-16s at airbases, HIMARS launchers, Patriot batteries, etc. You see just one video of a Su-57 shooting down its own drone and you presume Russia has them flying all over Ukraine. Did you think it’s because Ukraine has a very limited number of SAMs and not enough to monitor their entire air space? You’ve seen Zelensky begging for more air defense systems. Facts are the Su-57 has a huge RCS. It’s one of the main reasons why India backed out of the partnership to develop them with Russia.
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@grahamdeakin-howarth3090 Wow, you’re actually bragging about a few old model U.S. weapons on display in Moscow, all the while Ukraine has decimated Russia’s military and Russia’s troops are now using donkeys on the front. Those US weapons are what has helped drag this war out from what Russia thought would only last three days to now over three years. The US HIMARS, Patriot missiles, javelins, etc., have helped Ukraine defend its territory. The US provided less than 4% of its annual defense budget to Ukraine, and even with such a smaller amount Russia has suffered huge losses. Russia’s military’s is now mocked as being the second best not only in Ukraine and but in Russia.
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@tunisiandom9318 The U.S. has a huge lead with AESA radars as its fielded them in thousands of aircraft and for over two decades, while Russia is still fielding its first in the Su-57. Do some research and you’ll understand why L-band is not the optimal radar. See below. - L-band radar, while effective for long-range surveillance, has disadvantages including lower angular accuracy, and potential for interference from other radio services. - L-band frequencies are more susceptible to clutter from rain and other environmental factors. - L-band have historically had poor angular accuracy, which can make it difficult to precisely track targets. L-band is not as effective at detecting small or LO targets as well as higher frequency radar. - L-band frequencies are used by various radio services, including satellite communications and mobile phones, which can lead to interference with radar signals. Strong out-of-band signals can cause interference problems in the front end of a receiver, especially with software-defined radios.
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@marcusaureliusss Haha Russia is decades behind the US. Just look at stealth as an example. The F-117 flew around 40 years ago and it still has a smaller RCS than the Su-57. The F-22 first flew in 1997, and Russia to date still hasn’t built a fighter that can match its stealth, power, AESA radar, situational awareness, sensor fusion, etc. Russia still has not put a stealth bomber into service, while the B-2 has been flying since 1989. Russia’s so called superior SAMs have been decimated in Ukraine, and have failed repeatedly to protect strategic targets. Russia’s T-14 is a no show. Russia’s tanks and armored vehicles are getting outclassed by old Bradley models. Russia’s navy has gone into hiding in the Black Sea against a country without a navy. Russia’s Air Force has been incapable of achieving air superiority over Ukraine’s old and significantly outnumbered fleet of aircraft. Russia’s army is literally using donkeys, bicycles, scooters, etc. on the front. Russia’s so called hypersonic missiles that according to Putin were unstoppable, have been stopped numerous times by Patriots. Russia’s sales of military equipment have drastically gone down for two reasons: 1. Russia needs them for the war. 2. Countries aren’t impressed with Russia’s equipment as shown in the war.
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@Max_Da_G Is that why India left the program to develop the Su-57? They stated they had numerous issues, especially its lack of stealth features and its engines. Russia is decades behind in AESA. The US fielded it around 25 years ago, its now 4th generation AESA, and its in thousands of aircraft. It’s well known that the U.S. is the leader in this field. One of Russia’s biggest problems is building high tech equipment on mass scale efficiently, and AESA is an example. Russia has nothing to take out the F-22 or F-35 at BVR. You’re not even using common sense. If very powerful SAM sites have had difficulty even detecting them, a missile’s very small and less powerful seeker head isn’t going to be able to detect, track and lock onto either aircraft. In exercises against the F-22 pilots have even had difficulty getting a lock in visual range.
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Russia’s longtime ally India left the partnership to develop the Su-57 for several reasons, but one of the biggest reasons is because of the Su-57’s lack of stealth features. India pretty much said that Russia needed to start all over to try to rectify the situation. There’s a reason why Russia isn’t using the Su-57 to perform deep strike missions in Ukraine, and it’s because it knows it will get shot down, and if that happens then there goes the possibility of making any future sales.
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@vladislavovi44 The US did not need NATO to go inside Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia never could have achieved what the U.S. did logically. Russia has struggled logically fighting Ukraine that is on its own border. Involving foreign nations was only to demonstrate that it was an international backed operation. Furthermore, the F-35 does not have a kill switch.
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@ Sure they would. Russia has a long history of selling its weapons to China while the US doesn’t.
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@vladislavovi44 😂 You’re joking right? You didn’t even know what RAM was. My comments are entirely accurate. In fact, you won’t find one credible source that agrees with you. Russia is decades behind the US. The Su-57 is a perfect example. It’s less powerful, its radar signature is much larger, its radar pales in comparison, and its situational awareness and sensor fusion come nowhere near the F-22. Another example is the Russian Su-34. Downed Su-34s have shown to carry taped-on GPS devices that I can buy from Walmart. It shows two things. That Russian navigation systems stink, and that they can’t rely on Russia’s Glonass. Just a few samples of what the F-35 can do. It pretty much does the flying so that the pilot can strategize. The F-35 automatically detects targets, determines a probability of kill for each one, shares this information with other assets in the field, and determines the best firing solution to defeat the foe. The F-35 has in tests linked with a HIMARS and destroyed a naval target with a GLMRS rocket, and it’s also linked with a SAM to intercept a cruise missile. Russia is not a technological leader, and it’s shown it in the war in Ukraine.
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@ LOL, it doesn’t matter if it can’t detect the target, like a F-22. Russia just started using AESA for the first time in its Su-57 while the US has been using AESA for decades and has it in thousands of aircraft. You think that Russia is going to surpass the US when the US has had a huge lead in this field for nearly three decades? What I see is that you still have no common sense. And L-band radars have very poor target acquisition capabilities, among other things. The F-22’s AN/APG-77 AESA radar system can detect aircraft from over 320 mi (515 km) away. The F-22’s AN/ALR -94 system is passive, and yet it detects and tracks targets over 250 nm away. There’s a reason why in exercises that the F-22 uses a radar reflector against the adversaries. It’s too easy for the F-22 to win when the opponent can’t ever see them.
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@ Russia just started using AESA radar in its fighters. It tried it with the Mig-35 in the MMRCA tender, but India was disappointed with its detection range. In the meantime the US used it in the F-15C decades ago and now fields it in thousands of aircraft. 😂 Wow, one F-117 was shot down after flying many thousands of sorties and over a period of 30 years. It performed the most deep strike missions out of any fighter. It was shot down due to human error of flying a predictable flight path. It flew the same flight path four nights straight and at the same time at night. US commanders even admitted messing up. Russia to date still won’t chance flying deep strike missions with its Su-57 because it knows it will get shot down.
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@vladislavovi44 Just do a search and you’ll find “While Russia is developing AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radars, particularly for the Su-57 and MiG-35, it lags behind the West in AESA technology, with the US and other countries having more advanced and widespread integration of AESA technology in their fighter jets. Building state-of-the-art digital radars requires specialized capabilities in miniaturizing T/R (transmit/receive) modules, which Russia lacks. Some speculate that Russia may not see the cost-benefit of AESA technology for all its fighter jets, while other manufacturers seem to prioritize it. Some argue that Russia's industrial decline after 1991 has contributed to the gap in AESA technology development. The US and other Western countries have a head start in AESA technology, with AESA radars becoming standard on major fighter jets. Algeria, for example, requested AESA radar integration on a high-performance air superiority aircraft, highlighting Russia's lagging industry.”
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@ Most definitely lack of power. I’ve seen its take offs and they’re nothing impressive. Why else would Russia have been saying since its beginning that they plan in replacing its engines? One of India’s biggest complaints about the Su-57 is its engine.
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@ The only one who says it has a 400km kill is Russia, and we know how honest Russia is. NOT VERY. From the beginning there’s been doubt about Russia’s claims. You need to have deep strike capabilities to control what’s going on below. If Russia had control over the skies everything below would be vulnerable. Ukraine would struggle moving supplies, using its HiMARS, Patriot missiles, etc., and command and control centers would be more subject to attack. We know they’re not happening because there have been no fighters dropping bombs or shooting missiles from the skies above places like Kyiv. You’ve got to be kidding me.
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@ I trust Ukrainian sources much more than Russian ones. How often are Russian sources going to say that it was just debris from an intercepted missile that just coincidentally hit the target? The Russian media is laughable.
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@sashazxtt They’re more credible than the Russian media. The shooting down of a Ukrainian fighter at 400 km has been disputed by the Ukrainians from when the story was first reported, and there’s been no evidence that supports it. There’s no way people are just going to believe Russia after it’s been so dishonest in the past. Tell me you’re kidding about not needing deep-strike capability and how would a person know what.
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@ LOL, no it doesn’t. The one thing you will never hear from a pilot who has flown the F-22 or flown against it is that it’s underpowered. Pilots who have gone up against it rave about its power saying its power allows the F-22 pilot to be able to make a mistake and be able to safely recover from it while in other aircraft it would mean a death sentence. The simplest fact that India openly stated that one of the main reasons why they left the partnership to develop the Su-57 is because of its engines, and the fact that Russia’s been saying its been working on a replacement engine for over a decade speaks volumes. Accept it, the Su-57 isn’t anything impressive. Its stealth, avionics, etc., are all questionable if they meet the definition of a 5th gen fighter.
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@sashazxtt LOL, the Su-57 is the joke in n the defense community. Why do you think Russia has struggled for so long to get even a single sale? It’s supposed to be a great dogfighter, and yet you can’t find any legitimate video of it shooting its guns or air to air missiles from internal bays in flight. I can tell you right now that it doesn’t have the ability to launch an air to air missile from an internal bay while inverted. Experts even question if it’s truly a 5th gen fighter, or if it’s in name only.
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@ Just do a Google search and see for yourself.
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@ Algeria buys from Russia because nobody else will sell them anything. It’s historically bought Russian fighters. Even Russia’s longtime military partner India left the partnership to develop the Su-57. India cited numerous problems, especially with its lack of stealth features and its engines. India never would have left the partnership if it felt that the Su-57 had any kind of future. The fact that the Su-57 is Russia’s first fighter to have AESA, which is considered essential for a stealth fighter’s radar, while the US has had it in fighters for around 25 years and has it in thousands of aircraft is just another example of how far Russia is behind. The fact that the U.S. has had in service stealth aircraft for around 40 years and has built numerous stealth aircraft, while Russia just put into service its first also demonstrates how far Russia is behind. The fact that Russia is afraid to use the Su-57 to conduct deep strike missions into Ukraine speaks volumes that Russia itself isn’t confident that it’s truly a 5th gen fighter. If Russia had a true stealth aircraft, the Ukrainian air force would be under constant alert, and Patriot and HIMARS would be exposed to attack, and so would Ukrainian supply lines. Russia has shown no ability to control the skies as more and more Ukrainian fighters are dropping bombs on Russian targets.
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@sashazxtt The F-35 actually has one of the safest flying records for fighter aircraft. Unlike the Su-57 that has just a small number produced, over 1,100 F-35s have been made, and over one million flight hours have been flown. Is that why nearly every day I am seeing Russian targets getting bombed by Ukrainian fighters? Russia can’t achieve air superiority over a country with an old and significantly outnumbered air force, and you think it has a chance against a country with a modern air force? “Indian officials voiced concerns about the Su-57's cost, poor engineering, and unreliable engines, leading to India's withdrawal from the FGFA (Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft) project in 2018, citing the aircraft's failure to meet their requirements.” Cope harder.
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@vladislavovi44 I see you’re coping hard again.
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@vladislavovi44 I guess you should go tell all the countries that have lined up to buy it that they have all made a huge mistake, and that you know better than them. So many countries wouldn’t be lining up to buy the F-35 is it was faulty. Israel has used it deep inside Syria to strike Hezbollah, and inside Iran to strike its S-300s. Israel likes it enough to buy even more of them. The US has also used it deep inside Syria and Yemen. Russia is afraid to use its Su-57 deep inside Ukraine. 5th generation my 4ss.
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@sashazxtt Have you heard of the JDAM-ER, GBU-39B, the French Hammer? Ukraine used them all this week.
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@sashazxtt You’re out of touch and obviously have not been watching wartime footage from as recent as this last week.
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@ I guess you think that shooting down a Mig 29 is a big deal. SAMs 70 years ago could do the same thing. And regardless, Russia still hasn’t stopped the Ukrainian Air Force from striking targets. Russia’s air defenses have been a joke. Its fighters have been unable to achieve air superiority over Ukraine’s old and significantly outnumbered fighters, and Russia’s SAMs have repeatedly failed to protect strategic targets. Only one F-16 has been confirmed to have been shot down, with speculation that it was by friendly fire. Russia has claimed more, but Russia is rarely honest, and there have been no visual confirmations of any Russian kills, just typical Russian propaganda. You’re just so brainwashed that you’ll believe whatever the Russian media says.
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@ Just the fact that this war has gone on for over three years and Russia isn’t able to take control of the skies against a very small air force and outdated aircraft is telling by itself. In fact, the number of increased airstrikes by Ukraine is steadily going up. I’ve seen more bombs dropped from Ukrainian fighters this last week than ever before. Russia claims a lot of things that aren’t true. I’m still seeing HIMARS strikes routinely on Russian targets. Long range drone strikes are still very common. No joke, around a year ago I saw a Storm Shadow flying over the heads of a Russian S-400 battery as the soldiers laughed as it was heading towards a Russian airbase in Crimea. I’ve seen 30 year old ATACMS take out S-400s while the SAMs just seconds before launched missiles trying to intercept them. You name it, Russia’s SAMs have routinely failed to protect ammo dumps, airbases, training grounds, naval bases, headquarters, bridges, etc. I’ve seen it in videos, unlike you who only spouts Russian propaganda.
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@ As you know it’s a cat and mouse game when it comes to jamming. “HIMARS systems are being upgraded with anti-jamming technology to mitigate the impact of electronic warfare, particularly in response to Russian jamming tactics in Ukraine. This includes updates to the GPS system, inertial navigation, and software on both the targeting system and rockets. The U.S. military is also implementing software updates to the HIMARS targeting system and the rockets themselves to make them more resilient to jamming.” It’s why we’re still seeing HIMARS taking out Russian targets to this day. Facts are Russia’s SAMs haven’t effectively protected its strategic targets. If Russia had a true 5th generation fighter it would rule the skies, and everything below would be subject to attack. Aircraft carry much heavier bomb loads, they can have an immediate effect in a battle, and they can effectively shut down an offensive push on the spot. If Russia had control, it would also be more effective in getting troops behind enemy lines, it would be able to thwart Ukraine’s air force, it would silence air defenses, and it would have a severe impact on Ukraine’s command and control systems, including its communications. Instead Russia is losing more men in just one week than what the US lost in twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan. I see the video results. They’re showing S-400s getting destroyed. They’re showing Storm Shadows hitting Russian airbases and command centers. They’ve shown ATACMs striking numerous Russian targets. How do you think that Russia has lost so many commanding officers? Russia is only taking ground because Ukraine isn’t being properly supplied, and because Putin doesn’t care about how many Russian troops lives are lost. The US has been the main supplier of weapons, and yet it’s just a small percentage of what’s in the U.S. arsenal. Furthermore, the United States has only provided less than 5% of its annual DOD budget to help Ukraine, with much of the aid from old stockpiles. With Trump in office it will only get worse for Ukraine. He’s not interested in providing billions in weapons when he believes that the European countries should be doing more. Remember when Wagner was heading towards Moscow with just a few thousand troops and Russia couldn’t stop them? Putin had to flee in fear. Remember when Ukraine took a large chunk of Kursk? If Russia had air superiority that never would have happened. And Ukraine didn’t start receiving the more sophisticated air defense systems until way after the war started.
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@vladislavovi44 You’re just mad because I proved you wrong every time.
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@ Nah, it’s because your comments aren’t even logical. BTW, have you contacted all the countries that have lined up to buy the F-35 letting them know that they have all made a huge mistake and that you’re more knowledgeable than their experts?
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@vladislavovi44 Keep coping.
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@ You have not proven me wrong on anything. You have no common sense and deny reality. The only one who has a reading comprehension problem is you.
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