Posted on 02/23/2018 6:57:15 AM PST by C19fan
Late in the evening on Feb. 21, 2018, a photograph appeared on social media purportedly showing two Russian Sukhoi T-50 prototype stealth fighters — also known as PAK-FAs or Su-57s — in the sky over Hmemmem air base in western Syria.
While the photograph was rather blurry and could not be precisely geo-located, by the morning of Feb. 22 two videos appeared on the same social media depicting almost the same scene. A pair of T-50s escorted by an Su-35 interceptor. The authenticity of the photo and videos is still in question.
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In reportedly deploying T-50s, the Kremlin is outright gambling with precious prototypes and their pilots’ lives. It has sent into an active combat zone two supposedly “stealth” fighters that are anything but stealthy, that possess inadequate and incomplete sensors, incomplete fire-control systems and self-protection suites, no operational integrated avionics and are powered by unreliable engines.
/src on/I am shocked The Kremlin not giving a damn about Ivan using untested and potentially dangerous to user weapons system. Just ask the crew of the K-19./src off/
The USAF has deployed the F-22 so Russia is getting caught up in a game of #MeToo.
If you look at it as an evolution of the Su-27 (Su-27>Su-30mki>Su-35>Su-47(Berkut)>Su-50), it might be at least as capable as the Su-35.
I’m waiting for Israel to send up F-35s to us the T-50 for target practice.
Don’t bother writing about F-35 shortcomings, they’ll defeat the T-50.
I came here thinking I’d see a picture of the russian stealth fighter. Duh...
Apparently the thing REALLY is hard to see.
Gee, looks American in design. Wonder where they got that from?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I'd start by checking with the Clinton Foundation.
Parts supplied by the Obama and Clinton administrations. 500k for a “speech” my A$$...
Probably from the ChiComs, who got it from us.
I am pretty sure I wouldn’t want to be the pilot of the SU-35. Rather than protection, he might be sent along just to present a better radar signature to the anti-aircraft missiles on the ground. Thus, I guess in a way the SU-35 IS protecting the T-50’s.
Life is hard in Russia.
They say the F-35 has similar problems, prototypes out there with flaws and defects being used by the US and Israeli air forces.
DEBKAfile this morning portrays the deployment as a threat to Israel and tries to get us all scared about it.
Not an evolution but a complete redesign, such as it is, and is a PROTOTYPE, not an actual production plane.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RUColonel/status/904380364394725376/video/1
From November, I think. The CY-57/SU-57 is agile in this clip.
Reading that two more SU-57/CY-57s arrived todayin Khmemeim.
Here’s a vid of the SU-57/CY-57
https://mobile.twitter.com/RUColonel/status/904380364394725376/video/1
"MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Two Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jets have successfully completed a two-day program of tests in Syria, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told reporters on Thursday.
"Indeed, they were there for a while. Two days. During that time, they completed a program of trials, including combat ones," Shoigu said. "I can say that the trials were success and the planes returned home a week ago."
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