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No, it’s not useless nor is it overhyped. China recently developed 3d thrust vectoring after decades of trying and put it on a J-10B, I don’t know if it’s even in mass production. Then they put it on some J-20s after probably studying and copying SU-35 engines. The point is Russia and China both...

what is that specifically that I said? Give specific quotes of this spinning and backing out before making false accusations. Indians here first mentioned the SU-57 gap in the weapons bay then started complaining about Indian test pilots not being able to fly the SU-57. I calmly explained away...

You must have a reading impairment or are really slow in general. I said no one had the experience of Bogdan and that stands true...you have yet to name a single Indian test pilot with his experience. You or some other Indians objected to an Indian pilot not being allowed to fly the SU-57, my...

This is a moronic statement, yes SU-57 crashed just like YF-22 and many other prototypes crashed from the same problems. It had a malfunction in the flight control systems, which ironically killed Indian Mirage pilots in the past as well as caused an F-22 to crash and caused several Chinese...

He flew 55 different aircraft, some were variants of the same aircraft but are nevertheless different aircraft when flight testing is concerned. I’m obviously not going to list 55 aircraft, his biography mentions some of those aircraft including SU-57, SU-35, SU-25TM, Mig-29S, SU-24M2...

In other words no Indian pilot has flown 55 aircraft.... No it’s a fact, your arguments are jokes. It was an experimental aircraft just like X-47. It was meant for studying forward swept wings, weapons bays, composites, avionics and aerodynamic. It helped in the design of other aircraft...

I’m not arguing that Indian pilots are not experienced or talented. Most people regard India as having excellent combat pilots. We specifically are talking about India have a test pilot with Bogdan’s experience. There is a reason Bogdan was chosen to fly the SU-57 and help in its developed, its...

Some Russian pilots have also flown some Western aircraft too, so what? you still have not answered my question, name one Indian pilot that has flown 55 different aircraft including rare experimental aircraft and has 36 years experience. You forgot Bogdan helped in the development of the Pak-fa...

What Did France do to “tune” Rafale? Engines work more efficient in cooler conditions where air is dense. As for the “-30 engine” Russia is working on the engine without foreign help. It’s light years ahead of any other engine besides maybe the F-135. Look at the Kavari engine, India is getting...

Why don’t you bother reading the thread to get your answer instead of asking what has been answered? Once the aircraft is started and it’s hydraulic systems start working those weapons bays become plush, Levons and everything else that is controlled by hydraulic pressure go into neutral...

They have designed a sort of radar blocker for the inlet, moreover, there is still faceting and heavy composite as well as intake ramps that covers part of the intake. Even if there was no radar blocker, faceting or extensive composite material to help absorb EM energy it would still not “cancel...

Like I said before Russia builds aircraft in batches. You have no way of knowing if they will order more batches. Several things played a role, firstly there were extensive T-90 and T-80 upgrade packages that rendered the T-14 as not urgently needed; secondly Russian government officials...

What? 78 aircraft is not serial production? Tell us what it is then? How can they start serial production but then it’s no serial production? Just so you are aware. Russia orders aircraft in batches, the SU-34 and SU-35 numbers were also low at one point until more batches were ordered. The...

Why don’t you except you know nothing? Did my explanations go over your head? I have very easily explained away those “gaps” by proving they were caused from the aircraft being stationary and having low hydraulic pressure (example Levcons and nozzles sagging and drooping when aircraft is parked)...

Besides the IRST the SU-57 the SU-57 has nothing that the Rafale has. some of the electro optic sensors have been removed from certain prototypes as has most of the antennas, more importantly it doesn’t have pylons or weapons dangling around like the Rafale. You can complain about a poor seam on...

First off, I’m not Indian but my girlfriends father was a high ranking Indian officer that received India’s highest honors and he also was in battle. I know quite a bit of how the armed forces of India operate and their mind set. When he was an office in the army he spoke about corruption and...

This is wrong, the early prototypes were rough in nature because they were prototypes. They had more loser tolerances and more rivets then the newer prototypes. No machining was set up for the prototypes and large composite skin was still not ready. Early prototype (pay attention to the gap...