NOLA

There are one million other things that affect all the things you have mentioned that are not tested on T-50-1 either. None of the 5 radars, no EW, no sensors, no RAM, no FOD clamshells in the intakes, very limited G's, inability to use any weapons etc etc. They have also been through several sets and probably subversions of izd.117 on the frames - which obviously effect all the things you have listed. Again, radar blocker is the absolute least of the concerns. I am pretty sure it isnt fitted on atleast the first three frames - but i cant claim it hasnt been fitted to *any* frame yet. It wouldnt surprise me at all. As to the ramp, i am sure they (Sukhoi) are aware of any effect it has on RCS. If you are suggesting T-50 will only have ramp and no radar blocker then you are being silly.

A) Uhhhh. Because they don't test *everything* on the first frame at once? Isnt that obvious? There are a gazzilion things the later frames have that T-50-1 doesnt have. T-50-1 by no means represent the final aircraft or "real result". Radar blocker is very very far down on the list of important things to test on first prototypes. B) No idea what you mean. Radar blocker and intake ramp doesnt cancel each other out. No. Again, there is no blocker on T-50-1. It is fantastically easy to compare the number of the "vanes" we seen in the infamous picture and compare to izd.117/117S IGV's. Not entirely correct. What we see is the is IGV first, low pressure vanes are behind that.

1: Your picture is showing T-50-1. Compare stealth between F-35 and X-35. 2: Russians didn't go the full S-intake route for many obvious reasons. It isn't the only solution around to avoid RCS from engineface. 3: It will use radar blocker, which shockingly, T-50-1 doesn't have. 4: All this is available on the internet with minimal research. 5: Russians are not retarded, they are fully aware what S-intake is. Su-47 had them and guess what, they didnt forget about it since then.

Even though the length increase is only 11cm, visually it should look longer even from a distance. The ones in Syria just look R-77 like, ie with short motor part.

Logically it is R-77-1 as R-77 (RVV-AE as known in export designation) was never in service in RuAF. However visually it looks like R-77 and not R-77-1. But that might be due to lack of any good pictures i am left with that impression.

MiG-35 as such doesn't exist yet.

There isnt, and never was a radar in either Su-34 or any other flankers, it is a myth. The idea was toyed around with for the original soviet Su-35 (T-10M) but was never taken seriously. In Su-34's case it is APU, the metal on top is a metal flap that opens up to let out the exhaust when it is starting up. Here is how it looks exposed; The uttermost tip, under the white cover holds what is most likely RWR antennas.

Glad everything went well but damn; that looked hilarious.

"A bit ehh"? Seems to me you don't really know what you are talking about. It performed well in Afghanistan, Chechnya (twice), Georgia and now Syria. It's weakest part is the lack of MAWS which will be fixed with the SM3 version, its deliveries will start this year. Can A-10 can launch a missile hitting a target within ~5m from well over 100km away, because Su-25SM(3) most certainly can.

I don't think you read what i said; they don't have R-77 and it never was operational with RuAF. Proving otherwise would be easy; show me an operational RuAF plane with R-77. Good luck. I have 35 000+ pictures of RuAF and not a single one of an operational RuAF plane with R-77. At most there are shots of Su-35S with R-77-1 (most likely mock ups) and that is; 1; For testing, so doesnt count. 2; R-77-1 =/= R-77 I don't know about R-27EA, but i dont think that is operational either. I could very well be wrong here.

There is no reason for them to fly with R-77 because it isn't, and never was, operational with Russian Airforce. They will be getting a lot of R-77-1 (RVV-SD) from next year though.

In Georgia Su-25SM was used (unsure if vanilla ones were too) and in Syria i believe all of them are Su-25SM's + few Su-25UB's. The handful of Su-25T's that actually exist has not been operational for ages.

They were painted over because they had ferry flights over Iran/Iraq, atleast some of the aircraft. At that point Russian involvement was still not official.

MiG 1.44 and it is more than 25 years old.

The MAKS is still ongoing. ;) And yes, this was the first time it was publicly displayed. There was some heavy suggestions Su-47 would be too, but seems that didnt happen afterall. Some more pictures of it: https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/sdatchikov/?