william.boutros wrote:It is highly unlikely given the current priorities and changes in warfare.
That's all you got?
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Sheesh, I figured you would expand a little bit more there.
If a naval Su-57 is in the eventual plans, it's only obvious that it would be way down the road from now. The concept is certainly appealing.
Speaking of Su-57, some retired US colonel who has some pretty impressive military credentials posted this "skewed" pic of the Su-57 cockpit on X. Notice the convenient angle the pic was taken at and what it says at the bottom.
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He posted this pic of the F-22 Raptor right next to it with the comment:
F-22 vs Su57 cockpit. F-22 operational 2005
Su57 since 2020
Russia is DECADES behind, and getting worse.![Su-57 Stealth Fighter: News #9 - Page 7 GRgbaDTbwAAiO2a?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRgbaDTbwAAiO2a?format=jpg&name=large)
Man, I was so pissed off I had to call him out on it. Yeah we know most of the US' stuff is the best and I doubt many, if any would argue about the Raptor's greatness as an effective platform and ok, you can be proud and even rub it in a little here and there we're men our skin is thick we can take that crap no big deal.
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But don't be lying and adding to that lying by lying even more! To show a pic of one of the wicked early prototypes' cockpit and not only that, but at a skewed angle that only shows certain parts of the cockpit mainly to highlight that box in front of the stick with the 5 toggle switches on it and then call them "Ping Pong" switches on top of it? What are we high school girls, here?
So I called him out on it. Told him nice try on that deceiving pic and mentioned the above. Then I said THIS is the production Su-57 cockpit. Now compare, you neurotic horse's ass.
![Su-57 Stealth Fighter: News #9 - Page 7 SU57StealthJetFighterPixelCamouflageRiggedmb3dmodel012.jpgE777AE91-8B9E-4326-A052-E981844D08D7DefaultHQ](https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/2020/09/10__02_59_56/SU57StealthJetFighterPixelCamouflageRiggedmb3dmodel012.jpgE777AE91-8B9E-4326-A052-E981844D08D7DefaultHQ.jpg)
The western propaganda is absolutely brutal, way past the ridiculous. I mean, this is a retired colonel who served 7 tours in the US military and NATO and this is what he's resorting to? I had to call him out it was like as if it was an automatic obligation but one I was more than happy to dish out. My goodness gracious.
The comments were great, though. One guy said "what matters on the battlefield is practicality, not appearance." The truth couldn't be more accurate than that.
But this one I must say, was excellent and this fella brought the technicals with him with this great point!
In a war it is extremely useful to have switches you can toggle without looking. I hate a car computer that requires 3 clicks to change the fan speed - rather than turning a dial.There's quite a bit of truth to that. But this guy basically brought the house down!
Not only in war. It's also pretty much the reason why, say "professional" cameras have lots of buttons and dials on them – every essential and frequently used setting is immediately accessible instead of having to go through increasingly convoluted menus.This is so true and I've been saying this ever since we started seeing the touchscreen craze rape the fighter jet cockpit thanks to the Swedes & the SAAB Grippen's screen, followed by the F-35's. I was always an advocate of muscle memory working manual switches being faster and easier than navigating touch screens, especially when the screen touching sensor is operating like a smart phone and you have to swipe it a thousand times before it opens.
Even all the bullshit helmet screen crap seems way too much in the way of trying to make things simpler with advanced technology, but it turns out to be more difficult. If the idea of having all systems displayed 1 inch away from your eyeballs, what's the sense of having such a miraculously advanced touchscreen display then? Forget about the eye strain factor from having to focus on the screen, then 1 inch away from your eyeballs then back to the screen or even worst, out the canopy onto the jet next to you or the runway or a mountain. That near sight focusing must be torture on the eyes.
And if most functions are HOTAS anyway, then I would think you're much better off with a basic screen display showing all functions and switches & dials for additional functions to keep muscle memory sharp. Hey, maybe that's just me.
Anyway, I just thought that was an interesting conversation spawned from a poor attempt at a propaganda bashing at the usual suspect, the Su-57. And you wonder why they decided on their own to name it the Felon. Bastards.
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