… Because they don’t want Ukraine to bomb them all.
Why is this headline a question?
And also, they manufacture them there. That was a really dumb article
Name checks out?
Hehe this started out as a novelty account pretending to be the CIA….or is that what I want you to think?
No, that is what We want you to think.
Wait…. what’s happening here? Are you pay-ops’ing me? That’s not supposed to happen!
You’d think they’d be so confident in their super fighter they’d be deploying it instead of doing human wave attacks in Ladas
They couldn’t maintain a viable tire rotation program with all the grift and corruption. They definitely don’t have a viable stealth fighter her program.
I don’t doubt the validity of the aerospace engineering in the Su-57, it clearly has inherent performance advantages over a design such as the F-35 and maybe even in some ways the F-22, but yeah the idea that russia can actually regularly field a stealth aircraft enough for it to really matter is laughable given how much other well funded, more competent militaries seem to struggle with it. I doubt russia’s software and integration of the weapons systems with doctrine would remotely even be able to take full advantage of the airframe’s potential either.
As much as the F35 is bullshit, the focus on systems integration, software and datasharing in the design of the F35 is definitely not bullshit and russia has simply not done the hardwork to bang out the details and make everything actually work under wartime conditions in order to actually leverage the value of the fighter-bomber they built.
The true value of a multirole air dominance stealth fighter-bomber is to open the door and cover the entry of other more traditional fighting forces into a highly hostile defensive line. That utility is nearly useless if there isn’t tight coordination between the aircraft opening the door and the forces charging through it.
If an actually competent nation was producing and maintaining the Su-57 I think it would be a very different story, but this is not that story.
I imagine the most useful aspect of the Su-57 to the russian air force is that they are theoretically invisible to most of their own radar systems/air defenses so it reduces the risk they will be shot down in a friendly fire incident while on surprise combat missions that weren’t telegraphed to friendly air defense crews way ahead of time.
The competency factor is something that online commentors greatly undervalue. The US, for all it’s faults in many places, is extremely competent. It’s an institutional world history anomaly. No one comes close.
And that’s the source of the “Greatness” of America that the billionaire-bro class just doesn’t understand and is actively poisoning. They think they are going to own “American Greatness”, but they don’t understand, can’t understand, that they are actively poisoning the institutions that made them rich. They are turning America into Russia (that is literally their expressed goal), but when they do there went be another America left to keep the world order in place.
To circle back to the Su-57, I don’t believe any of it’s advertised capabilities are real. Which is why everyone that was going to order them (India) has greatly pulled back their orders.
And I promise you, the F-35 is definitely not bullshit. But if the programs and institutions that support it aren’t diligently maintained, then in 20 years every plane will be worthless.
Which is why everyone that was going to order them (India) has greatly pulled back their orders.
Well that and much of the world is pressuring India to move away from Russia.
And I promise you, the F-35 is definitely not bullshit.
I am not saying the F35 isn’t a capable aircraft physically, I consider it a failure at a program level.
I ultimately agree the Su-57 is a vaporwave plane, a glorified demonstrator, but that doesn’t mean the airframe itself isn’t highly capable, rather it makes that potential advantage categorically irrelevant.
When it comes to a F-22 vs Su-57 the idea that there would ever be a fair fight vastly misunderstands the competency mismatch of the militaries that possess them, the difference in performance specs on paper is irrelevant, the Su-57 loses end of story.
Which makes me wonder if their nukes even work. Heavy water has really high resale value.
I personally don’t believe Putin believes Russia has a single viable nuke remaining in it’s arsenal.
My primary evidence for this suspicion is that for all Putin’s consistent nuclear sabre rattling, he’s never done the one thing that would really rattle the sabre: conduct a nuclear weapons test. If he had a nuke to test he would have tested it just to scare off the West.
The text of the matter is that building a nuclear bomb really isn’t that difficult. A reasonably well funded university physics department anywhere in the world could probably build one. Having a nuclear weapons program is another matter. That’s orders of magnitude more difficult and more expensive. Honestly, I would be really surprised if the USA had half of the viable nuclear weapons it claims. Much less Russia.
Nothing stealth about those planes ,there are visible when it rains .
Careful, she’s very insecure and sensitive about her absolute dumptruck of a radar cross-section.
