Su-57 Felon
In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia’s most recent combat aircraft. It is a multirole aircraft combining the functions of both a fighter and strike aircraft, with design features that include stealth, supersonic cruising speed and maneuverability, the latest sensors and weaponry, and network-centric warfare capability. Fully illustrated with over 170 full-color photographs, this book describes the trials of the T-50 prototypes and the implementation of the Su-57 into series production, as well as looking at the design, characteristics and combat capabilities of this fifth-generation fighter.
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Su-57 Felon
In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia’s most recent combat aircraft. It is a multirole aircraft combining the functions of both a fighter and strike aircraft, with design features that include stealth, supersonic cruising speed and maneuverability, the latest sensors and weaponry, and network-centric warfare capability. Fully illustrated with over 170 full-color photographs, this book describes the trials of the T-50 prototypes and the implementation of the Su-57 into series production, as well as looking at the design, characteristics and combat capabilities of this fifth-generation fighter.
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Su-57 Felon

Su-57 Felon

by Piotr Butowski
Su-57 Felon

Su-57 Felon

by Piotr Butowski

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Overview

In December 2020, the first Sukhoi Su-57, codenamed Felon by NATO, entered service with the Aerospace Forces, making it Russia’s most recent combat aircraft. It is a multirole aircraft combining the functions of both a fighter and strike aircraft, with design features that include stealth, supersonic cruising speed and maneuverability, the latest sensors and weaponry, and network-centric warfare capability. Fully illustrated with over 170 full-color photographs, this book describes the trials of the T-50 prototypes and the implementation of the Su-57 into series production, as well as looking at the design, characteristics and combat capabilities of this fifth-generation fighter.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913870447
Publisher: Key Publishing
Publication date: 11/18/2022
Series: Modern Military Aircraft Series , #2
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.57(h) x (d)

About the Author

Piotr Butowski is an aviation journalist, writer and photographer specialising in the aviation of Russia, especially the themes of aerospace industry and technology. Since 1978 he has published several thousand articles in aviation magazines all over the world, mainly in Poland, the UK, France and Germany, but also in Brazil, the US, Japan, Spain, Italy, Russia and other countries. He is author of around 15 books on Russian aviation published in Poland, the US, the UK and Hong Kong between 1985 and 1996. After a break of almost 20 years, he wrote the first volume of the Russia's Warplanes series last autumn.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Chapter 1 The First Approach: MiG MFI 5

Chapter 2 Sukhoi Su-47 with a Forward-Swept Wing 13

Chapter 3 PAK FA Competition 21

Chapter 4 Sukhoi T-50 Under Development 26

Chapter 5 The Second Five with Stronger Airframe 45

Chapter 6 The Indian Saga 54

Chapter 7 Su-57 Acquisition Plans 58

Chapter 8 Su-57 in Detail 67

Chapter 9 Future: the Upgraded Su-57M 89

Chapter 10 Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik Unmanned Combat Aircraft 92

Chapter 11 RSK MiG Does Not Abandon the LMFS Project 95

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