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Behold!!, the Sukhoi's new toy and second of its kind ( fifth generation fighter), the Sukhoi-"Checkmate", now to the question as to whom they are trying to checkmate with this new fighter is still quite unanswered, the USA has two sharpest fifth generation arrows in its quiver, and Russia is trying to get on the fifth gen. capable fighter train for quite some time, fist they tried with the SU-57 "Felon" and now with "Checkmate", maybe it's going to work out for them this time but only time will… See More
tell, by the way i wanted to hear more from 'MIkoyan' but they've been pretty silent about this whole next gen. fighter talk, maybe one day not too far ahead we'll be seeing a new fighter design from the old manufacturers of some amazing jets and aircrafts.
The biggest problem the Russians have right now is money. They can't afford to even field one of these planes let alone any meaningful numbers of them. They might do well with selling them to other countries but they won't really be doing much of anything with this themselves. The other thing to remember is this hasn't even been flown yet. These are just design mock ups, not actual fighters. The US is kicking their a$$ on the fighter front as it's rumoured they've already flown prototype sixth… See More
gen fighters and are working on getting them into production. I really think the only worry the Americans have on the combat arms side of things are the Chinese, and that's only if you believe half of what they say they have...
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The IAFs SU-30 MKIs, i can't think of any country in the world that has put on such heavily modified version of any fighter jet into their air force, IAFs Sukhoi jets could fire super cruise nuclear capable 'Brahmos' missiles, they could carry out ground strikes, they could partake in recon & surveillance, apart from being able to take off or land on a carrier i think there isn't any role which IAF hasn't modified its SU-30 jets for. The second image shows SU-30 MKI carrying Brahmos under its… See More
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MIG-29 K of the Indian Navy, (Copyright info on the image)
I agree with Jordan, though if it's not going to be a daily thing, maybe change the name of the page. o.O
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Whatever works for you. Real life happens and takes priority. No need to apologize.
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