How Russia built a stealth jet to beat the west - Su-57

So stealthy, it has never been seen in actual combat

"The famous forward swept wing design we all flew in Ace Combat" that one line made my day. Thank you for the memories 😂👍

The SU-57 gets an A+ for design aesthetics. It's just beautiful.

I came here for the comments. It's astounding to see the number of aerospace engineers and material scientists here discussing and comparing, from design to functionality to application and lethality.

As awesome as the su-57 is on paper, the superiority question can be summed up with this.. "Would you intercept me? I'd intercept me."

I know it's not for aesthetics, but the mismatched panel colors on the Su-57 look awesome.

FAE: "Don't skip this part" Me: immediately skips ahead 20 sec

I saw the Su 57 recently got an engine upgrade, my impression with this plane is a couple of things. A) they weren't trying to make a direct counterpart to the F22, Russia prefers a workhorse to a racehorse usually. B) It's a paradigm shift and is a learning project which is slowly being modified and refined as money allows. It's like the shift to windows xp, there were a lot of problems due to 64 bit never being used before. I assume this because the successor to the Su 57 is already in development and pre-production. It's a really beautiful airplane in any case

Design-wise, this has always been one of my favorite planes. This plane, along with the YF-23, prove to me that beauty and lethality are not mutually exclusive.

Putin: "I haven't seen our stealth plane in combat over Ukraine." Sukhoi: "Thank you, sir!"

the way war is carried out in these days you dont need a lot of fighter jets... its all about missles and drones

"don't skip this part" Me: immediately skips

[meanwhile in the distant future] ‘Let’s talk about the stealth fighter that never was…’

Drone "wingmen" seem like a fantastic force-multiplier. You can increase the weapon load and data gathering capabilities of crewed warplanes whire minimizing the number of soldiers praced in a dangerous situation. It combines the advantages of drone aircraft while eliminating most of their disadvantages.

Man, your animations just keep getting better and better. Gorgeous work.

The SU-57 is a very beautiful aircraft!

Oh boy, certainly a title

I noticed you didn't explain that although the su57 has infrared it only has it facing forwards. Whereas the F35 has 360 thermal detection capabilities meaning it can target crafts behind it. Those sidewinder 9x's are insane :~)

it's funny to see people who've never touched or even seen a real fighter in person, much less a 5th gen fighter, always become the "experts" and instantly chew out content creators like Found and Explained, Mustard, and Real Engineering with things like how good/bad an aircraft is -- while also having zero concept of how modern day dog fighting actually goes down. As much as the Felon isn't a fully upped 5th gen fighter, we should appreciate Russia's improvements in aviation especially with regards to fighters and equally appreciate channels like these for sharing this information with us. Keep it up, yall are awesome!

Its absolutely stunning looking, it really is one of the prettiest planes out there.