Me when I don’t know what I’m talking about
You can quite literally see the engine compressor blades and the stator vanes right in front of it.
Oh boy, not the compressor blades and [they aren’t stators] of a non-functioning prototype! It’s such a shame that every subsequent Su-57 airframe made was an exact copy of T-50KNS!
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Brother… You called variable inlet vanes “stators”… On a picture of an aircraft that has never once left the ground.
Those are compressor blades. In front of the compressor blades you can see that stator vanes. Why are you coping so hard?
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Yeah, come back when you know what you’re talking about brother.
I know exactly what I’m taking about lol. You saying “nu uh” doesn’t exactly help your case
You’re calling variable inlet vanes “stators”… You’re clueless, brother.
I’ve spoonfed you the exact terminology for what you’re looking at twice now.
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Those are not variable inlet vanes little buddy. I have no clue why you’re calling them that, even if they were. It doesn’t change the fact that you can directly see the compressor blades behind them and part of the inlet cone. Why do you think the Russians had to put a radar wave blocker in front of the engine on later models lmao
Yes, they most definitely are. Do you have any idea what a stator is?
And… Why does this matter?
Does this look like an engine with variable inlet guide vanes?
The fuck does that look like?
Maybe… Vanes? That are situated in the fan inlet? That themselves have variable elements to help modulate flow across the fan face?
Variable inlet vanes, right?
Jesus christ you’re clueless.
Those are not variable inlet guide vanes, those are just inlet guide vanes buddy. You said variable inlet guide vanes, you also said earlier that those are not compressor blades. Which is it? Get your story right lil bro
“ Those aren’t compressor blades on production models, it would be the inlet blocker specifically designed for the Su-57’s intake.
Even if the engine WERE exposed (which it isn’t as shown), you wouldn’t see compressor blades at all. It’s hard to take you seriously when you’re ignorant of the most basic fundamentals of a turbofan.” these are your words lil buddy, so confident on being wrong. Variable inlet guide vanes actuate to better redirect airflow. Those are static as they do not move. You’re in denial, it’s okay. You can overcome it lil buddy.
Yes, the kind that move. Variably. Hence them being, yknow, CIVVs?
I never once said such, I said they aren’t stators. You seem to have entirely forgotten that and are now picking up what I’ve told you and running with it.
It’s not hard to say you were wrong.
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T-50s are different between themselves, they were made to test different components for the SU57, which is why some have longer tail booms and whatever.
Bringing one of the T-50s prototypes – even if without grates in place – to argue that the final SU57 doesn’t have them either (to ultimately argue it isn’t stealth) doesn’t really fly when we have images of the blockers installed on another T-50:
The YF23 was considered a stealthier design than its competitor, didn’t use radar blockers at all, and it didn’t make use for super distorted S-ducts like the YF-22/F22 either:
The screw argument also doesn’t hold water anymore:
So, I’ll stop here since this is the F22 thread, but it’s almost 2026, fellas, all those ‘not stealth’ because screw/fan blades arguments have long been discredited
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