Please explain, because I still don’t understand, what elements of this mythical feature are absent in Su-35 or Su-57. To talk about this to Russians, who used the “network-centric warfare” (TM) with the MiG-31 like 30 years before knowing that it would make for such a good propaganda in Western hands, is a little absurd. By the way, the pilot of the F-35 can have a superb knowledge of their surroundings and still get his ass handed to him by a SAM shot (in full HD of course) since it cannot accelerate fast enough, fly fast enough or attack far enough to out-run it. To see this, take a look at how the Iraqi MiG-25s in the Gulf War engaged and disengaged almost at will with US air power only because they were freakin’ fast. BVR missiles and all, engagement windows do depend very strongly on the relative dynamic capabilities of the target and the missile. So how fast and high a plane can fly does matter, much. And while avionics can be updated, the aerodynamic limitations can not, by far, be improved in the same way.
IIRC, the old Russian TVC nozzles move as you depict. The newer on Su-35 and T-50 move independently in X and Z axis. Nevertheless, the ones you show can produce torque in both axis as well, though not so optimally or with so many degrees of freedom.
As far as I understand, the supercruise limitation of the Su-35 to low supersonic speed comes rather from the dry power of its engines, clearly below that of a F-22, rather than from aerodynamics.
Regarding the pressing need of 5G fighters for Russia… it simply does not exist in reality beyond industrial and prestige reasons. US has no basing capabilities to mount a reasonably dangerous conventional attack to Russian territory. And even then, the Russian IAD is simply way too powerful to be easily defeated due to advantages in radar coverage and interception means. Only to avoid radar detection through the integrated radar network and destruction by means of MiG-31 / R-37 would be already an achievement. So no big surprise, that they take their time deploying the Su-57.
Why bring up MiG-25 or MiG-31? Those planes are purely for speed and go Mach 2.8 which is completely not applicable and irrelevant to F-22 and Su-57. What source even says Su-35 supercruise limitation is due to engines instead of aerodynamics? You eyeball that Su-35 has less supersonic drag than F-22 somehow??
That’s great until you realize that the YF-23 has the same offset intake, non true S duct setup either, and has a little engine showing. Same deal with the Boeing X-32. There was some real doozies like the unpainted engine coweling. That was a serious critique until they got painted.
KGB, the more you push Su-57 = F-23 the more retarded you look. Besides, YF-23 is prototype without all the stealth features. The actual EMD F-23 has a DSI and no splitter plate.
@ActionJackson Dude stop using that picture of the F-35’s edge, it’s a result of anti-aliasing, not some magical pattern for VLO. Look at any other high quality picture or video of F-35 and the edge is straight.
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