Deino, lol give it a break and do what everyone else does and put him on your ignore list :p

Yes, but sometimes I have that irresistible feeling, a certain need to .. :dev2:

it seems you have no understanding of clean sheet. Su-35S is complete clean sheet design. every thing from materials to flight controls to engines are designed from ground up. its not upgrade of existing airframe. Its flight qualities give it decisive advantage. do you thing they integrate every thing new without designing the airframe and stress testing?

But even if it is a newly redeveloped version using all the stuff You mention, a F-16E will never be a fifth generation fighter like the F-35, a Su-35 will never be a fifth generation type like the F-22 or T-50 and also a Il-476 will never be a more modern transport like the Y-20; period.

external lines does not tell the material and manufacturing technology and lifespan/weight of aircraft. not to mentiona glass cockpit and fligh controls. try put F-16E engines and loads into F-16A airframe.

wider fuselage on medium size aircraft has proven to be failure. they simply don’t have the range. that’s why you see Volga Denpr and An-124 in various low intensity conflicts.
IL-476 is proven success as it is basis of A-100 and IL-478. In high intensity conflict in desert you need to directly transport water and fuel to makeshift aircrafields. where choppers are operating round the clock.

You simply can’t or do not want to argue !??

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IL-476 is not modernization but completely new plane. . It is digitally created in new factory with airframe life far exceeds the previous generations. In order for aircraft to be multifunctional you cant make it too wide/ slow or overweight.

Hmmm …. that might be in the way it is manufactured, but the external lines, its technology the airfoil of its wings and everything else is still the same and as such limited …

By the way, an aircraft with a wider fuselage has not necessarily to be more draggy and as such has “practically zero operational value”; just look at the C-17.

The engine issue is surely a major weak point, but as explained only an interim issue.

… and now also no. 11052 !

… a slightly different one !

First images of Y-20 delivered ..