Whatever the purpose might be. They seems to have their intended result. Plus cool image+proof that Kh-59MK is indeed not a vaporware and seem to work as it intended + Su-57 will definitely carry it.

I wonder why we need to waste our breath on rather irrelevant signature secrecy. Why nobody ever point out US have same vulnerability by flying Raptor in Syria without luneburg lenses. and if Su-57 flying there untreated as it looks like then any attempt on radar signature measurement would be rather futile and at best giving untreated signature of Su-57.

Then you have your answer. The raptor itself did not use Luneburg lens during deployment to Syria.

https://twitter.com/m3t4_tr0n/status/841384541658980352

and this

https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/25/f-22-at-night-formation-lights/

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What it means for Su-57 ? It means that it does going on a full combat mission. It is a test but it’s real.

Any discontent regarding why Russian should keep signature etc is irrelevant, as you see US doesn’t give a shit either and go with “full stealth” for their raptors.

Unfortunately the show didn’t really delve further into avionics suites like radars. I just noticed that the cheek array and main array have different polarization. The main array is horizontal while cheek array is vertical. Seems the cheek array is more optimized for strike/reconnaissance role and situational awareness as typical missile may have higher RCS in vertical polarization, and strike as vertical polarization is less affected by vegetation AFAIK. The module style is yes, like APG-77 “stick” array where the module “bricks” are arranged linearly then stacked to form the full array.

Another thing is of course the stealth treatment, the show seems to concentrate more on canopy treatment and generic shaping. But none on RAM or RAS. But i guess not much can be revealed in public for that respect.

Another interesting footage is the Su-57 internal fuel tank arrangement, but hard to make anything out of it yet as estimating the tank volume would be difficult.

The engine footage is great except they didn’t really fire that Izd-30 on test bench, and use 117 footage instead X3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zF5PGytV3E

So we could expect TVC in J-11 variants too i guess. Like this Russian prototype.

Well, not a good news 😡

https://ria.ru/defense_safety/20181005/1530022992.html

I suggest using Google Translate or our Russian natives can kindly provide better interpretation. The news related to that Indonesian Su-35 deal which threaten by delay due to fact that having business with Russia will subject us to CAATSA. This would means US companies might stop doing business with ours which basically a pain given no real substitute for something like google and yahoo. Despite Gen Matthis’s insistence that we be exempt from it. My take however is perhaps lost in information where the reporter interview source which having outdated information.

Should that proven to be true it would be a world of hurt as we doesn’t really have exit plan and whatever Western offers seems to not taking account that we might face Chinese AEW, stealth fighters and hordes of cruise missiles.

At least no shooting game.

and no..the weaknesses of IRST is that it is not able to measure range directly and not really “all weather” sensor solution.