Test pilots of the Sukhoi Company Sergey Bogdan and Sergey Chernyshev, perform an amazing flight display with the latest and most modern Russian 5th generation fighter aircraft, the Sukhoi SU-57 during MAKS 2017 at the Ramenskoe airport in Zhukovskiy.
The Sukhoi Su-57, previously designated T-50 (Сухой Су-57 / T-50) is a single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter aircraft with multi-role capability but designed for air superiority and attack operations.
This jet aircraft is the product of the PAK-FA (ПАК-ФА, Перспективный авиационный комплекс фронтовой авиации, or in English Prospective Aviation Complex of Front line Aviation), a fifth-generation fighter program of the Russian Air Force.
The first prototype performed the maiden flight on January 29, 2010. Deliveries of production aircraft to the Russian Air Force are expected to begin in 2018.
The aircraft will make extensive use of composites. On the first prototype, composites comprise 25% of the structural weight and almost 70% of the outer surface.
Weapons are housed in two tandem main weapons bays between the engine nacelles and smaller bulged, triangular-section bays near the wing root. Internal weapons carriage eliminates drag from external stores and enables higher performance compared to external carriage, as well as enhancing stealth.
