Another Russian piece of trash who’s performance will not come close to matching the Russian hype. Typical, just standard fare.
“Another Russian piece of trash who’s performance will not come close to matching the Russian hype. Typical, just standard fare.”
Everything you make, everything, is made up of tradeoffs and compromises. The plane needs to be a tradeoff of speed, endurance, operational altitude, stealth, carrying capacity...the list goes on. On top of that, the pilot has to be practiced...meaning lots of flight time and exercises. That costs money. Every decision you make costs money. And, if you build lots of planes you have to give up some tanks or ships. That’s just the way it works. Russia does not have the economy to mass produce any expensive weapons system unless it gives up something else. This weapon is likely to be optimized for Russian use and would require modifications if used by countries with different needs. This is one reason why American built hardware gets so heavily modified when sent to, say, Israel. Different country, different conditions, different needs.
The fact that they’ve invested in a stealthy robotic nuclear submarine with a bomb big enough to kill millions on the American coasts tells us what condition their economy is in. You don’t build civilization ending doomsday weapons if you can afford to build conventional weapons.
They’re looking for a partner to share the costs to build this thing. But there are very few countries that would invest what would be required when it won’t benefit their economies in any way. Practically any country you could name who might ordinarily be a partner is on the verge of collapse. And, if they did buy it, likely it would need more expensive modifications to suit the needs of the buyer. This is yet another Russian supper weapon that will not get built.
...”Oleg Panteleyev, head of the Russian Aviaport analytical agency, said the fighter jet could be a rival to the U.S. F-35 stealth fighter.”
from what I have been reading lately about the F-35, and its many many design flaws, the fact that it is not now nor will it probably ever live up to the expectations of it, and how billions of American tax dollars keep being poured into this flawed aircraft, I don’t see how the F-35 could be considered a rival to this new Russian fighter... jus’ sayin’ .....