mb, they arent prototpes
http://su57.mariwoj.pl/su57-index.html
the 50 series, i like to think them as LSP as the are technically not in the main 01 - 26 serial series
Wait isn’t the R-74M2 the biggest in R-73 family ? What’s the problem physically fitting R-74 in Su-57 internal bay ?
Yea you read all these report. But you didn’t read that R-37m its the missile that scare the U side the most. That even British has to made a report of it. I remember all the talk in these year. And Often come with commentary of U pilots saying that They have to throw away payload and run back to base.
So if R-37M couldn’t catch targets on time before they throw the payload and run. Not even the Meteor with its slow speed would catch the target.
Nowadays. It look like Russian Stopped launching missile at everting just to Scare U pilots. Because U side its doing a lot of bomber run ATM (mainly with Jdam and weapon of that kind). When at the zenit of The R-37M “meta” they didn’t even try to fly.
On the L-band radar. Yea its true that you would need a lot of power and more TM for it to work like normal Radar. But there is a lot of info that the radar is for that detect Stealth Aircraft as its main job.
That radar don’t need to have 100km. It just need to Detected Stealth Targets. Faster/Early that the main Radar. So if Bielka (main radar on Su-57). Detect a target at 20-25km. The L-band radar Just need to be powerful enough to detect a stealth target at 30-35km.
Some people said that it can’t give Fire solutions and that it only could Guide the main radar to at a Possible stealth target. So the main radar can focus on it.