![]() Each country has its own criteria that determine the generation of military aircraft. But what should be considered the criteria by which this or that fighter could be attributed to the fourth, fifth or even sixth generation? “Of course, such a division into generations is rather arbitrary,” says Mikhail Strelets, Deputy General Designer of the UAC for Military Aviation, Director of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, Chief Designer of the Su-57. Su-57 is traditionally called a new generation machine. They will become the basis for new developments. ![]() However, all these new technologies and solutions not only determined the appearance of the new machine, but also formed the criteria by which this or that device is now referred to as the fifth generation of military aircraft. The result is an aircraft that can adapt to the level of pilot training, has low visibility in the radio, infrared, optical and sound ranges, 70% of its surface area consists of composite materials, and the pilot's equipment anticipates and fends off overloads in advance. When creating the Su-57 fighter, the Sukhoi Design Bureau developed dozens and hundreds of advanced solutions. Highly intelligent, stealthy, supersonic - these are some of the main requirements for a fifth-generation fighter And although a number of very interesting new generation fighter aircraft programs are currently underway around the world, at that time the Su-57 will be a FULLY OPERATIONAL type with great modernization potential. Yes, it will be 20 years after the first flight of the prototype, after many difficulties, slowly starting mass production, but it will be. ![]() Not to mention the MUMT capability in connection with the miniature Molnya UAVs (also carried internally) or the huge S-70 Okhotnik. while maintaining the excellent kinetic characteristics of the sophisticated design in the full range of the flight envelope and reduced detectability. all this while being carried in INTERNAL weapon bays, i.e. 300M short-to-medium AA IIR missile to hypersonic ultra long-range anti-aircraft missile Izd. The Su-57, at that time already with the new Izdeiye 30 engines, will be a mature operational aircraft with universal hypersonic weapons such as the Lichinka-MD/Larva-MD, with a wide range of anti-surface weapons from the small-diameter Kh-MD modular missiles to the heavy Kh-69 ALCM, from Izd. In fact, the Su-57 is a respectable product of aviation development, and no aircraft in operational use will have comparable capability and flexibility at the end of this decade. The Su-57 is sometimes the target of infantile criticism on discussion forums in the context of „generational pigeonholing“ (according to this logic, the F-35 would be generation 4.5 at most, as it lacks supermaneuverability and supercruise.). In that article, among other things, there is an interesting note about the complexity of the structural solution of the fuselage with unprecedentedly large weapon bays with regard to overloading during demanding maneuvers, plus many other interesting things.
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