Actually Tu-4 was exact copy of B-29, bolt by bolt. Stalin job to Tupoljev. Even admitted by Soviets.

This is true. The only truly shameless copy, bolt for bolt, is Tupolev TU4

Jack Ma does not know economics. it benefit his firm but it does not mean US. DT will need crash course in economics from Putin otherwise
US already has world most expensive police force/teachers/healthcare/prison industry. reducing spending on weopons and wars will not make products competitve or decrease the need of foreign labor but create far more inflation.
on Other hand Russia can increase both domestic spending and on foreign wars and it will greatly benefit it.

DT should make Russia’s central bank chief an hostile offer to run the Fed. The Banker is a British banking magazine. It awarded Russia’s central bank head as central banker of the year in 2017. Somehow I doubt that the Russian economy is in as dire straights as the western media says when Russia’s central bank head is winning awards.

Ofcourse its a mixed bag. There will allways be similarity when we have many fighter that have two engines, two Verticals attached to an airframe. But sadly some People are incapable of understanding this, and even history timeline. And with a good mixed portion of natiolism nd ignorance, they scream; its a Russian copy!!1!1!

Yes. But its fun.

But don’t you think our friend here is reaching a bit with this Tomcat/su 27 comparo ?

Damn. That’s what you call footage. The detail is so good that you can see all the inputs on the control surfaces

The F 14 is in the same era as the veriable swept wing Flogger.

No comparison to the flankers or fulcrums. They were an answer to F 16,15

USSR shaped those intakes before the F14. So that’s a myth too

Considering the T-50 project isn’t even up to the complexity level of the F-22A program, small wonder its negligible difference in development time. But extrapolate out when the technology will be on par with the jet two decades older and you’re talking quite a bit extended amount of time. Meanwhile, they are surrounded by much smaller countries sporting next generation fighters beyond F-22A that may or may not be able to nullify T-50 without aid from the F-22A. Russia isn’t anywhere near the economy it was and it’s going to have to stop blowing its treasury on a war that is pointless and funding an insurgency that actually penalizes itself.

Considering the T-50 project isn’t even up to the complexity level of the F-22A program

Not true. What gave you that idea ? Pak Fa is faster with more range.. Radar in the wing edges..They are doing the same things in the Pak Fa that the YF 23 had but were the very reason that the US picked the Raptor in the 1st place. YF 23 employed too much new technology.

The only shortage of funds for PAKFA are those siphoned into operations. Russia lost its cash cow by using speculative trading to so overprice gas it made it affordable to by elsewhere. And then it turned out, there were deposits affordable to exploit at these new high prices. Then nature brought the price back down.

If Russia was less aggressive in the Ukraine – Crimea Peninsula aside – there would have been further soothing of Cold War hostility. It’s not cheap feeding steady supplies to rebels in eastern Ukraine, nor is it to bear down on a pointless civil war in Syria. PAKFA funding sure slowed down after all that other stuff heated up.

With the shootdown of the Su-24M over Turkey you also see much more push for funding of active missiles and electronic warfare pods. Syria is turning out like the impetus Beirut operations were for the U.S. If it keeps dragging out its going to be painful. And operations will only get more expensive and PAKFA further slowed.

Here we go with the Russian economy again. You are wrong. Entirely wrong about the state of the Russian economy but I will just get accused of chest beating if I post the hard data and I am sick of going through it all the time.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/putin-buys-dip-russias-gold-buying-october-largest-millenium
The Russian central bank gold purchase is the biggest monthly gold purchase of this millennium.

Geopolitically you are also wrong. Russia has not been aggressive in Ukraine. Just the opposite actually. It was the US who got aggressive in Ukraine and fermented war.

Russia pushing Gazprom to provide discount gas to Ukraine …
uk.businessinsider.com/russia-pushing-gazprom-to-provide-discount-gas…
Mar 31, 2015 – The Russian government is requesting that its state-owned gas giant Gazprom

And the development of the Pak Fa… It took the US from 1991 to 2005 to get the F 22 in service. That’s 14 years.
1991, Secretary of the USAF Donald Rice announced the YF-22 as the winner of the ATF competition. The jet would enter service in December of 2005

How does the Pak Fa compare ?

in 2002, Sukhoi was selected as the winner of the PAK FA competition

Development of the Pak fa is in its 14th year now in 2016/17 And it is expected to enter service in 2017. If we consider that the Raptor entered service in December of 05, we can see that the difference in development times is negligible.

So if You see any random image of the F-22-testbed B-757 posted You also conclude that the F-22’s radar is not operational ?

Everyone jumps the gun a bit on declaring operational. No big deal

Russia doesn’t seem to be jumping the gun with the Pak Fa tho