Russia is in no hurry to begin mass production of the country’s answer to America’s F-35 fighter, a defense official announced earlier this month, despite the fact that it is “one of the best aircraft” in the world.
“The plane has proven to be very good, including in Syria, where it confirmed its performance and combat capabilities,” Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said on Russian television, as reported by The Diplomat.
“You know that today the Su-57 is considered to be one of the best aircraft produced in the world. Consequently, it does not make sense to speed up work on mass-producing the fifth-generation aircraft,” Borisov explained.
The Su-57, he went on, is “our trump, which we can always play when the aircraft of previous generations will start to lag behind in capabilities when compared to similar aircraft from the world’s leading countries.”
Borisov’s upbeat assertion aside, the article from The Diplomat cited Russia’s overstretched defense budget as one reason for the decision. As of July, the Russian military had yet to sign a contract to purchase the initial pre-production batch of 12 aircraft.
Russia has played up the SU-57’s capabilities, as well as its lower price tag compared to the US F-35.
The Russian-made jet is two and a half times cheaper than the F-35, or F-22, according to Russian lawmaker Vladimir Gutenev.
“The fifth-generation fighter jets are undoubtedly competing with US F-22s and F-35s, but it is considerably cheaper even though it has similar characteristics, while in some aspects, for example, maneuverability, it does better than the US jets,” Gutenev told Sputnik.
all producs made in China are poor qualities.. mostly garbage
Congrats to China,because they have arrived to.Keep deceiving yourself.
Jn Githinji Dude….these countries are buying it cuz they participated in development program idiot.Us have not developed the f-35 alone instead its more of the NATO project.
You are not selling them planes instead US is supplying the tech they produced to them and the countries will then mass produce the aircraft in their respective countries.
The countries buying the weapons that participated in development absolutely don’t count at all.
The so called Multi-Role fighter f-22 is about 3 sec slower than su35 and its death sentence for a multirole fighter.The f-35 was the best thing in world Middle-East would have bought it but they rejected the design and others are getting it cuz they paid for that ROCK.I am not big fan of Chinese tech but J-20 is a better option as compare to both and Russia may end up buying it.
Adam Tyler you’re talking about a country that pulled the plug, which has never produced an indigenous jet.
Western media lies
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/22234/no-russias-su-57-stealth-fighter-program-isnt-dead-at-least-not-yet%3fsource=dam