Su-57 Stealth Fighter: News #8

So su57 will fly low and attempt to mask itself from E3 AWACS coverage

No. Flying low puts you in range of most air defence systems like Gepards and Blowpipes etc etc.

Flying at altitude means you can fly faster and further and your self defence sensors have more chance of detecting approaching missiles or shells.

Su-57 will be masked from E3 coverage by being relatively stealthy and not getting within 600km of the AWACS platforms.

Which mig31 and future PAKDP fire longer range missiles, the su57 will penetrate that airspace and take down everything, from the AWACS to its escorts

The speed and altitude the MiG-31 can operate at gives it a range advantage with any AAM it might use and would be ideal for hitting AWACS and JSTARS and HALE and MALE drones and also inflight refuelling aircraft.

In a way it is useful to know the other side are just so wrong on so many things... certainly explains why this war was necessary, but also explains why Russia is winning and will win. When you can't be honest you tie yourself up in your own lies and makes you vulnerable and stupid.

We had to destroy the whole village and kill all the people to save it...

But hitting only military targets and their defensive missile launches causing civilian casualties is genocide and you need to be tried in our courts to prove it.

Israel wont even fly F-35s over Syria, and the US wont fly F-22s over Syria without agreement over that with Russia, and the west talks about the F-16 like it should be the F-35... most western politicians think the F-16 can do what the F-35 was supposed to be designed to do... ie operate over Russian air defence systems and drop bombs on them because they could not possibly detect its presence over them.

You have to ask where these politicians are getting their information from... they think sending F-16s to Ukraine will eradicate Russian air dominance and somehow destroy Russian ground forces. They are sending F-16s in groups of maybe 32 at best...

But why would their advisors be telling them the F-16 in any version let alone the clapped out old models they will actually send to them will be capable of achieving this?

I would guess the F-16 started out as a threat... they thought the Orc offensive would surprise the Russians and force them to the negotiating table with the threat of F-16s as pressure to get a good deal.

But why not threaten with the F-35s? Because this is an exercise in dumping junk and disposing of it so the western MIC can make trillions over the next decades replacing it with new stuff and if they sent F-35s and they failed then they will have to spend trillions fixing it and current sales will dry up once it is revealed to be a white elephant.

Right now the best western aircraft are probably the Rafale and probably the F-15E, but they will never enter Ukrainian airspace.

The Su-57 is literally a whole generation ahead of them.

The F-22 and F-35 are designed to dominate in airspace filled with 4th gen fighters and that is 4th gen fighters... not 4+ gen like the Su-35 and MiG-35.

If any aircraft need upgrades and improved specs it would be the F-22 and F-35 but the former is more likely to be retired early to save on costs, and the latter doesn't even have most of its problems fixed let alone new capabilities added.

Of course upgrades for the Su-57 will be ongoing which continues to raise the bar the entire west has failed to jump... only China seems to be competing... and good for them. They are not psychotic like the west is.

Flat nozzle test bed was back on T-10 (Su-27). Over the years there has been more tests with it and one of potential for Su-57 I believe in the form of patents. But hasn't been seen as far as I'm aware.

The engines being used are Turbofans, which is a turbojet engine with a big fan on the front sucking in cold dense air that does not go through the turbojet... it goes around it, so at the exhaust you have hot air that has had fuel burned in it that went through the turbojet core, but you also have airflow around that that is bypass air that is cold and oxygen rich because no fuel has been burned in it... it just gets sucked through because of the fan blades on the front.

A square exhaust means those two airflows mix more rapidly reducing the temperature of the airflow... but also reducing thrust...

The F-22 has 2D flat engine nozzles because they didn't have the technology to make them round and 2D.

The engines on the Su-35 flanker are 2D as well but are round.

The engines on the MiG-29OVT are round and offer full 3 D deflections.

This adds weight and maintenance, but also gives better manouver performance authority...

The S-70 might get the flat nozzle, but I am not sure the benefits would be worth the negatives for the Su-57 to use it.

Modern FLIR is so sensitive it can pick up the surface temps of a fuselage and differentiate between the surfaces and then feed a computer to produce an IR image..

This is true but what it actually sees is an IR pattern of temperatures all moving together... a group of flares all fired at once in a clump can fool such a seeker... as was shown with an AIM-9X not shooting down an Su-22.