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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