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Sep 18, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
The Sukhoi S-70 #Okhotnik UCAV model at #MAKS2019 with stealthy exhaust and the recent announcement by Russian MoD that Okhotniks would be deployed in the East & West of the country by 2024 are significant pointers to Russian thinking on the future of air combat Image
Giving optionally manned stealth fighters a pass, Russia appears to be embracing unmanned stealth (#Okhotnik) for striking targets in heavily contested airspace & the combination of stealth & EW (#Su57) for defending homeland airspace.
The tight integration of the two platforms under the flying wingman concept makes their combination deadly. Penetrating Raptors would need to pause after first spotting #Su57, to ensure their own presence hasn't been picked by #Okhotniks & relayed to the Su-57s!
Izvestia reports that the #S70 #Okhotnik will carry 4 9-A-7759 "Thunder" precision strike glide bombs (65-km range) / cruise missiles (120-km range) in its internal weapon bay. The drone will operate as Su-57 loyal wingman sites.google.com/site/idpsentin…
Left, Grom E1 (9-A-7759) cruise missile (120-km range) & right Grom E2 (9-A1-7759) glide bomb (65-km range) that are set to equip the Su-57 Felon and its S-70 Okhotnik loyal wingman stealth UCAV at #MAKS2019 ImageImage
As predicted by me through the Sep 18, 2019 tweet in this thread, Russia has started developing the S-70 Okhotnik as a flying wingman. I am tracking the progress of the S-70 as loyal wingman in the following thread.
Russia indicated its intent to incorporate all aspect stealth on the S-70 Okhotnik through the display of this model with a shaped exhaust for rear aspect stealth during MAKS 2019, but no timelines were announced. Image
This screenshot captured by a Chinese blogger and posted at the link below purportedly shows a shaped nozzle, unreheated variant of the Su-57 AL-41F engine undergoing tests on the Il-76LL testbed. vk.com/milinfolive?w=… Image
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Russia is stepping up the production of Tu-214 up to ten pieces a year. In the future, production may be increased to 20 aircraft annually, according to Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation. 1/n
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Production facilities of the two aircraft at the Kazan Aviation Plant are undergoing large scale modernization and technical re-equipment. 2/n
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Accelerated training on French fighter is taking place at Mont-de-Marsan and Nancy air bases.
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The Su-25 variants provide ground support under cover of Su-35S and Su-30SM 3/
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Some interesting observations on the Russian missile attack against Ukrainian infrastructure on Feb 16
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