New combat aircraft will be presented at MAKS-2021

Big_Gazza wrote:and won't be a real threat to the Fail-35....  

That might be actually true, as the biggest threat to F-35, is F-35 itself

The claims that the largest economy in Europe, with the most cash in the bank, needs a few billion to develop a fighter jet are hilarious.

The new Russian fighter is being created at an unprecedented speed, 19.07.2021.

The main premiere of the MAKS-2021 air show that opens on Tuesday will be an aircraft that Russia has not shown for many decades - a new single-engine fighter. The way this aircraft is created and what characteristics it should receive testifies to a huge breakthrough in the Russian military aviation industry.

The fact that our country really needs this plane has been discussed for a long time. Already published photographs of this aircraft show a machine similar in layout to the American F-35, but using technical solutions from the twin-engine Su-57. And a long time ago, a photograph of the nose of a model of such an aircraft on the table of Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov got into the media - now it is obvious that this model reflected the ongoing development of a real machine.

The VZGLYAD newspaper has already written about what benefits this aircraft will give to Russia . We will not repeat ourselves, let's just say briefly - this will allow the Aerospace Forces to come to the most rational and widespread structure of the combat aviation fleet in the world - a massive light fighter, which, due to its relative cheapness, can be produced in huge quantities, and to fight for air supremacy with a serious enemy - heavy multipurpose aircraft with advanced electronic equipment, weapons and unique flight performance. This is done by the Americans with their light F-16 and F-35A and heavy F-15 and F-22. Optionally, they have A-10 attack aircraft and F-15E heavy strikers. Well, we also have the Su-25, and there are already two candidates for the place of the specialized heavy drummer - the Su-30SM and the Su-34.

This transformation will make our aviation much stronger. And this will also make our aviation much cheaper, and in addition, if the situation is successful, it will make it possible to earn a lot of money on exports. One flight of such a fighter "on strike" will be several times cheaper than the flight of the Su-24, moreover, it will not need a cover fighter. And the efficiency will be higher.

All in all, this is really good news. The first such in decades, which our Aerospace Forces have been waiting for many years, earlier, in the 1990s, unreasonably abandoning single-engine aircraft. But the scale of the event, which will take place on July 20, is much more than just the first display of a promising new combat vehicle.

The return of secrecy

It was a great satisfaction to all "people in the subject" that this machine was suddenly revealed to the public. There were almost no leaks about the details of the new machine being developed, there were no significant leaks that could shed light on the timing of the appearance of the first sample. This suggests that in our long-suffering state, they finally began to provide state secrets exactly as it is, in fact, necessary.

Basically, we do things in a completely different way - high-ranking officials and officers make significant faces instead of answering questions, and then, due to an oversight of the responsible employees, absolutely secret information is leaked into the press. Specialists can remember a lot of such cases. But at the same time, in fact, they secretly and secretly keep things that require public discussion, and they are broadcasting things that should never get into it. Americans, for example, are doing exactly the opposite.

The story with the new fighter is just a reverse and positive example. Neither the Ministry of Defense nor the United Aircraft Corporation tried to pretend that everything is good and correct in aviation. Information that some work was still going in the right direction was dosed out in the media in such a way that the public (and the enemy!), On the one hand, could not get anything from this information, on the other hand, they knew that existing problems are being solved. Under the correct veil of secrecy, it was possible to develop a completely new aircraft that does not have a prototype, and to announce its existence after the construction of at least a model, and most likely an experimental model.

This is aerobatics, class. You can only applaud. And also wish that it would be the same everywhere. Correct decisions, correct security, correct "leaks", tangible results.

But that's not all good news.

The return of speed

The second most important aspect of the emergence of a new machine was the speed of its development. For example, let's compare with the Su-57. Formally, they began to invent it in 2001, and the development contract was signed in 2003. Now, in 2021, the plane is not yet ready - there is no engine provided for in the tactical and technical specifications. But this is a superficial view. In fact, the 20 years that we have been working on this aircraft, this is the tip of the iceberg, and let's be cynical - that's a little more. In reality, the Su-57 almost turned out ONLY in 20 years, because before that the Sukhoi had a huge backlog - work on the fighter of the future was carried out since Soviet times, since the mid-1980s, and in the course of this work, an experimental C fighter was even created. -47 "Berkut". This experience definitely helped with the creation of the Su-57. If someone does not believe that 20 years is not enough.

This example vividly illustrates how long it takes today to create a new aircraft. Dozens of years of intensive work by huge teams and a lot of money.

Now the Americans are trying to cross this threshold with their NGAD program, which provides, among other things, accelerating the production of aircraft. But in general, the huge time frame for creating new aircraft is a global trend due to the complexity of modern aircraft technology.

And here's a single-engine car. The cockpit canopy, similar to the Su-57, suggests that it began to be developed after the appearance of the Su-57 was clear. The appearance of the car clearly indicates that this aircraft is largely unified with its "older brother". This means that in the case of a single-engine machine, development began already when at least some of the Su-57 subsystems had already been created, and possibly already when the Su-57 itself was created. Of course, this development was not carried out from scratch - both the MiG and Sukhoi had experience in single-engine vehicles, and for a long time. But these were, firstly, paper work, and secondly, they are not very similar to the shown machine, including in terms of the fundamental design features of the airframe.

All this suggests this - the plane was invented very quickly. The trend for decades of development has been broken, and this is not just the first time in Russia, this is the first time in the world for so many years. Jet warplanes have not been built at this rate since the 1960s. The secrecy of the project also indirectly testifies to the rapid development - otherwise something would have leaked to the press. And here the leak about the program simply did not happen.

Such fast terms indicate that somewhere in the field of design organization we have made a breakthrough. Russian aircraft engineers have learned to work in a way that they could not do before. And if such rates continue, then we can safely say that Russia has made an outstanding breakthrough of global importance - it has learned to create complex equipment faster than anyone else. The benefits of such a breakthrough are obvious and need no explanation.

But that's not all.

Breakthrough in unification

If you look at the old Soviet aircraft, you will notice not the highest level of unification. Engines, sometimes components of sighting systems, weapons, and some subsystems wandered from glider to glider. But a lot was developed for each aircraft separately.

The layout of the new single-engine fighter (or its first prototype) leaves the impression that it was developed with significant use of existing serial components and systems.

This is, firstly, a step forward compared to the old days, secondly, savings for videoconferencing, and thirdly, those very fast development times. And this is also a step forward, long overdue and finally taken in our country. A rational approach to the creation of military equipment is something that our country has always lacked. Perhaps this machine will have a serial AL-41F engine instead of "product 30", which cannot get into serial machines in any way, but even in this configuration, it is, as they say, a slaughter apparatus. And, apparently, relatively inexpensive.

Of course, there is a question: where to make a new car? But, apparently, it will be solved - while the tests are underway, preparations for the production of a new machine can be performed at several aircraft factories at once. It's solvable if you decide.

But the fact that our Armed Forces do not have such systems of mutual information exchange (MISI) as the Americans do is a fat minus. We do not have anything like the American system VZOI Link 22, and the potential of a new fighter without such a system will be much inferior to the American F-35, with all its possible superiority in flight performance.

On the other hand, while the aircraft is being put on the wing, specialized structures have time to develop a similar information system. If this is done, then our aircraft, which is likely to fly much better than the F-35, and (according to the pictures of Rostec) will have a powerful optical-electronic sighting system (and maybe a reconnaissance system), like the F- 35, will also receive similar information capabilities. Let's hope so.

In general, the creation of a new fighter is a truly breakthrough event. There is something to be happy about, and not only in the aviation sector. Let this breakthrough be the beginning of others like them.

https://m.vz.ru/society/2021/7/19/1109630.html

This year's budgetary surplus totals 630 bln RUB, as for June.
Yeah, they cant afford that

The most hilarious part is, that those idiots are claiming that seriously. They really believe that shit.
No one discusses the ability of Japan to construct a next-gen light fighter.
Neither South Korea.
This neglecting is propaganda-driven only.

limb wrote:Currently western propaganda says russia desperate for money and that these countries would never buy the the LTS. UAE because its currently begging to be let in the F-35 program, Argentina because no money, and india because allegedly they are suck of russian low engine life, and because india is more pro-US now, leaving only Vietnam.

India is a potential target customer that Russia may plan to aim for.

India need a new fleet of modern light fighters to replace the aging MiG-21. The Tejas program is a failure, and purchasing more Rafale is not plausible due to the unreasonable cost.

The trailer clip shows that the mysterious fighter is aimed for export and the first customer may be foreign countries rather than Russian Air Forces.

It looks like a stealthy F-16

Stole the US's thunder from right under them

Great job