dont make me laugh. its not even funny atp
Because… It’s a forum?
“Unhappy”? Unhappy about?
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the other guy seeing the picture went butthurt too, makes you think why that always happens.
I highly doubt Su-57 have that high of a readiness, but the F-35s are just embarrassing, especially for what they cost.
The fact that the military is not actually allowed to do maintenance on them and has to bring in contractors from Lockheed is probably a large part of that issue. Along with China cutting off rare earth exports to the USA which prevents production of a lot of spare parts.
no those stats are for the USAs fleet of F-35s only, FMC rates:
Fiscal 2025 Full Mission-Capable Rates
| Variant | FY2025 Rate |
|---|---|
| F-35A (Air Force) | 28.5% |
| F-35B (Marine Corps) | 16.2% |
| F-35C (Marine Corps) | 22.0% |
| F-35C (Navy) | 15.3% |
similar with the YAK-9P, it was meant to showcase might, not prove it, or in other words saber rattle, to say that they can, but in reality they can’t due to how corrupt the government is and all the other stuff i mentioned
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And yet it still Skullfucks in every operation it’s been used in, curious…
Absolutely better than anything else on the market right now.
But keep looking at graphs with no understanding of what that actually means bub
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LOL fighting Nations with no Airforce or air defense, it ain’t doing so hot in current conflicts we cannot discuss on here.
And it makes zero difference how good it is in the air when you don’t have the parts to get it there.
But keep living in your little fantasy bubble where everything the USA has built is total god mode.
Wrong
You can complain about the procurement program all you want, it alone is a massive boondoggle
But the aircraft it produced is far and away better than anything else.
I know more than you
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Think what you like mate, I know better than to waste my time arguing with someone that has repeatedly demonstrated they refuse to recognize any facts that don’t support their delusions of USA invinvibility.
Yes, because in this case, you’re wrong.
Cope
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I am not arguing 20% figure.
But if you cared to google the same stats for all the others 5th gens (not per country, but per aircraft type) you’d see the numbers in the same ballpark, pretty much all of them are under 50%, some just scratching 60.
Thing is, raw number differ by a few times. 20ish% of a thousand >>> 50ish% of a couple hundred. And these are the numbers from the Chinese, which are the better ones in that regard. Comparing to something like Russia’s Felons would be just sad, for instance.
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It’s hard to say. I don’t think corruption is the main issue here. Russia simply doesn’t have the industrial capacity that the USSR once had. They somehow managed to build the PAK FA, but they still haven’t been able to finish developing it. Early in the program, they promised to replace the engines with the second-stage engines, but that still hasn’t happened. As a result, the whole project feels very strange. The Su-57 has supposedly entered serial production, yet it still doesn’t have engines with flat nozzles the entire engine sticks out just like on the Su-27. They also promised a helmet-mounted cueing system (HMS) from the very beginning, but it’s still not there, just like the G-suit. It doesn’t even have RAM coating. The Su-57 feels more like an upgraded Su-27 than a genuinely new fighter.
What’s funny is that the helmet worn by Su-57 pilots was originally developed back in the 1980s during the Soviet era. That suggests Russia has had a hard time developing something truly new.
So, to me, the Su-57 remains a big mystery.
Can we get back to talking about the F-22 now?
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Of Course
its more of corruption in the way of moving money around to other projects or just making it vanish even with how little the ruble is worth today, its kinda one of Russian limiting factors on why its not as big of a threat as they used to be, and although its not the main reason, its one of the many
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Amount of misinfo is wild
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Absolutely correct. The only chance for Russia to create a real competitor to the F-22 is to scrap all Su-57s and start developing a completely new aircraft with a clean-sheet design, featuring flat nozzles, HMS, a G-suit, and RAM coating. Because the Su-57 is a dead end in development and a huge waste of money.
yes and no, the flat nozzles it needs are still in testing so the ones it has now are placeholder, it does need ram coating but that is its own project all together separate from the SU-57, the G-suit is also its own fix as it is not part of the aircraft, and the helmet mounted sight is (I’m just talking out of my ass at this point) is most likely due to a lack of resources, as the SU-30s and SU-57s are built in the same plant (in theory) it wouldn’t be hard to try and incorporate the HMSs, however, the cost of the material and how much they get a month is most likely what kept it from receiving the HMS in the first place however it makes up for it due to the IRST they got on the nose (although i’m 90% sure its something that boosts the RCS of the SU-57s) and as is, the SU-57s RCS is roughly (according so SU that is) roughly 1.0-0.5 M^2, which is roughly the same size as a F/A-18E without anything on it (apparently its part of the Block 3 series of the aircraft)
Your wrong, they dont need to scrap the su57 program.
They literally just started to do good in 2026.
Lets not forget that even the usa f22 fleet use a french Hmd.
Russia su57 program was delayed because of multiple money problem and one the most important problem that you didn’t acknowledge is the sanction which why russia had to restart from zero and making their own stuff.
The switch btw foreign made military equipment to local made takes years. Even longer in a active war.
It isn’t including testbeds. By this year there should be 60+ serial and pre-serial models combined. By 2025 there were 44 pre-serial / serial airframes.