Sukhoi has more than a half-century of experience building warplanes for the Soviet Union and Russia, with the Su-2 light bomber debuting in 1937. The aircraft can carry weapons externally on its wings and fuselage if stealth is not a concern.īy all accounts, the Su-57 is a decent fifth-generation fighter, but for one reason or another, the Russians haven’t been able to build many of them. They can also carry anti-radiation missiles for targeting ground-based radars, electro-optical guided bombs, and anti-ship missiles. The main bays are capable of carrying large air-to-air missiles, such as the medium-range K-77M radar-guided air-to-air missiles. The “Felon” is designed to engage adversaries in the air and on the ground while remaining stealthy, and like the F-22 Raptor, it stores armament in four internal weapons bays, including two large main bays and two small bays. The jet’s N036 Byelka radar uses the same active electronically scanned array radar technology as the F-22 and F-35). (Another report suggests production aircraft will stick with the AL-31F. In 2017, an Su-57 flew with the aircraft’s permanent engine-the brand new, higher-performance Izdeliye 30 (“Product 30”), which generates 24,250 pounds of thrust. The aircraft was initially fitted with two Saturn/Rybinsk AL-31F1 after-burning turbofan engines, each with a thrust rating of 19,842 pounds. The Su-57 is a flatter, more angular airframe than earlier jets, with a blended wing and body configuration to give it built-in stealth. The Su-57 prototype, showing canted tail wings and large air intakes behind and underneath the cockpit. The RuAF has suffered significant losses in just two short weeks, including 12 fighter and attack jets lost to Ukrainian fighters, as well as surface-to-air missiles. Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM and Su-35 fighters, Su-34 strike aircraft, and Su-25 close air support jets massed in airfields in Belarus and western Russia, and began carrying out missions in the skies over Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, launched in late February 2022, was accompanied by a major buildup of Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) aircraft. Today, the futuristic fighter bomber is still a long way from service with Russia’s Aerospace Forces. Unveiled in 2010, the Su-57 was originally meant to be Russia’s first fifth-generation fighter jet, an aircraft capable of both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions while remaining undetected by enemy air defenses. One of Russia’s new wonder weapons is AWOL from the invasion of Ukraine: the Sukhoi Su-57 fighter. Instead, the fighter is in development limbo, and thanks to Putin’s war on Ukraine, it won’t go into production anytime soon.It was supposed to be in the same category as America’s F-22 Raptor and China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon.The Su-57 fighter bomber is Russia’s first new fighter since the end of the Cold War.
0 kommentar(er)
