Above: the new Sukhoi 5th-generation fighter, Checkmate, unveiled at the MAKS airshow near Moscow earlier this year
RT – Nov 15, 2021
Russia’s state development corporation has announced it is working on an advanced new unmanned military jet that can soar above the clouds and cloak itself from enemy defenses, while being controlled from the safety of the ground.
In a flashy teaser released on Monday, Rostec and Russia’s publicly owned aerospace giant UAC showed off renderings of the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-75, codenamed ‘Checkmate.’ A variant of the stealth jet, they confirmed, will be made available without a cockpit. Instead, its onboard computer will allow it to fly autonomously, eliminating the risk of trained pilots being captured or killed.
“A professional doesn’t need a hammer – a professional needs a scalpel,” a military officer in the video declares. “This is not just another aircraft of the fifth generation – this is the Checkmate.”
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In July, weapons engineers revealed the manned version of the Sukhoi Su-75, which cuts a similar shape to the American F-35 but is billed as being cheaper and more advanced. The single-engine warplane will be able to fly almost twice as fast as the speed of sound and cloak itself from ground defenses and radar.
Test flights are expected to begin in 2023, with variants, such as the unmanned version, in development through 2025, and the first units coming off production lines as early as the year after.
Checkmate is intended to be capable of using short runways for takeoff and is fitted with modular weapon bays capable of wielding a full array of anti-aircraft rockets, gun pods, bombs, and guided missiles.
“It is a unique airplane,” its developers told reporters at an exhibition over the summer, adding that the Checkmate is faster, has longer range, a smaller radar signature, and can carry more ordnance than the F-35. “Our price, I hope, will be between $25 and $30 million each,” Rostec’s head, Sergey Chemezov said, making the jet at least half the price of its American counterpart.
The Russians had better watch out Clint Eastwood doesn’t try to steal it and fly it back to the US for the Americans to get their hands on it and copy it!
I want one!
It’s always cheaper to kill all your people.
I am not surprised that Russia and China have better fighter jets.
The reason is simple, Amerika is plagued with corruption, perhaps it is inevitable that an empire rots from within, and in this case Lockheed Martin’s F-35 cost is directly proportional to Pentagon largesse.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2021-07-08/f35-fighter-costs-out-of-control-gao-says-2087038.html
LMT is milking the airframe for all it’s worth, and really I don’t think they give a damn if it even works or is reliable. The more problems means the more money it needs for a fix. It’s a junkie airplane hooked on $US Dollars. It flies on money, new contracts for upgrades,
https://russia-insider.com/en/military/shitty-jet-could-provide-23-years-free-college-everyone/ri11160
Bottom line? Amerika is falling behind on it’s once proud status of fielding the best fighter aircraft. The fail wasn’t just in Afghanistan or with the F-35, Amerika has no high speed rail like China or Japan or France.
Amerika has Amtrak. That’s right, all the money has been squandored fighting unwinnable wars. Amerika is rotting from within.
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/does-the-f-35-really-suck-in-air-combat/
So broke back Amerika is going to upgrade the older F-15.
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/f-15ex-vs-f-35a/
The glory days are gone and what is needed is the Federal Reserve to quit printing money, let the air out of the HYPER BUBBLE and clean house of all the god damned speculation like the crazy cryptos where you invest a hundred bucks and wake up a billionaire the next day.
The world has gone batshit crazy over hyper money printing – and the bankers want to solve their money problem by the death vaxx. There was a day back in 1960 when the Air Force could order 100 Boeing B-52s for less than the cost of one POS F-35.
No information on the US autonomous vehicles from subs, space weaponry to very small slaugherbots that can be release by the 10s of thousands by just one Cargo plane. The video on slaughterbots is still on youtube. BTW, that is the low tech compared to the EM/resonance weaponry from ground to the satellite weapons. US has it’s own group of Autonomous flying devices as well and not just planes as these move in any direction at g forces that no living thing could survive.
YES USA ROTTING FROM WITHIN !
LATE VENGANCE FOR 2 NOT NECESSARY
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