well a lot of things are not confirmed. the thing that i know 80% or more sure that su57 has done is
only down side is no air to air kills.
I very much doubt two of those
which one ?
Su57 has done a decent combat record, even though there arent many of them, which is good.
But i would consider being seen on the frontline of a quite contested airspace defended by patriots, s300 and iris t slm, while still doing multiple strikes a higher quality combat than launching strikes against some people who dont even have air defense, other than some manpads or makeshift r27t trucks.
Imo f35 has the highest combat record, then Su-57, then F-22, then j20 and j35 (not implying they are bad, they are quite great actually)
recon, definitely didnt happen due to other platfoms doing that much better (it doesnt even have particularly good optics for that)
and ive not seen any evidence for it destroying a himars, which also shouldnt really be a separate category from the other cruise missile one
some ukrainian planes’ve already been shot down while nato ground radars and awacs didnt pick up a single sukhoi or mig31 nearby, some outlets are crediting those kills to the su57, its happened several times, against g2a batteries, aerial targets, and infrastructure, what would have taken down those planes? schrödingers philosophy, a bird? weather? who knows, maybe the only stealth plane in russias inventory
you can not trust it or believe thats on you, i think it happen and the s71m was used. if you think i am worng, feel free to tell me what this weapon could be
only other i can think of is the su34 or the M-55
The only recon i can think of for su57 is detection of radar emissions fron sams, since its electronics are much better than the ones on the su34 and su35.
could be also radar detection seeing how A-50 awacs has done badly
Also from my reputable sources, that probably was not a s71…
alright nice to know, thanks
I am not sure what it is, but I doubt it is s71m
look at the wing cord, on the weapon mounted to the Su-57, the cord is noticeably less than the width of the body (you cant see the trailing edge of the other side wing in either image), while in the video the chord is noticeably longer than the width of the body
also that video has a very significant jump cut, and picks back up in a different place (and looks like slightly lower quality); hard to tell if its just down the road or two different videos spliced
drones and satellites, they are definitely not sending a very expensive manned platform close to the front lines at high enough altitude for recon
Probably bm-35 or geran 3/4, not su57 related
Wouldnt be suprised if it provides sam locations via radar emmision detections for other platforms for SEAD purposes, su34 electronics are quite bad.
maybe? but I would think A50 or other similar more dedicated platforms would do that
its me who edited it so i can make it no offensive but here the source if you want
https://x.com/Rajendr67215893/status/2012608317731057747
State of current A50s are quite sad
the explosion is quite big for a 90kg head tbh
thanks, but that still has a huge jump cut
look at the shape of the end of the trees when it turns onto the road and when the video cuts back
it very clearly is a different spot as in the first location the trees dont continue perpendicular to the road and it doesnt look like there is anywhere in frame earlier where there are trees like that
and it clearly isnt smoke because in the earlier shot the smoke is blowing quickly in a direction where it would visibly move in the later shot
edit: there is also a second cut later in the video, and in that time it is either a spliced video of a different road or the road turns ~30 degrees, which seems odd for the kind of area seen in the video due to farmland/fields and their surrounding roads generally being based on 90 degree angles
after the second cut the video quality also is massively reduced
you mean sources like the bulgarian military? which again is heavily russian biased.
