well if you dont believe the sources just get some more that say otherwise lol, and if you dont trust what a gaijin official says what do you even believe
just for clarity, smin is british, he has no reason to claim russian sources as always credible
Would still be better then nothing. Japan has very good military development, but they’re also extremely limited in the depth of how much they can do.
They could otherwise maybe get 2 new light vehicles which would only be small improvements on the Type 87 and Type 16.
Because other nations (Russia) lack in AESA we decided that the best solution would be to implement the Su-57 in order to test the characteristics of the radar type, other vehicles will be coming eventually (never).