Gentlemen, before you proceed, I must warn you to remove any children from the vicinity of your computer. Make sure you open this poast in a private browsing tab, so your wife or girlfriend cannot find out what you have been watching. Everything you see from now on is strictly 18+, and I shall not be held responsible for any consequences you may incur from your spouse, colleagues, boss, or church pastor if you continue here.
I am not messing about. There will be videos down below that contain money shots, upskirt shots, full-frontal shots, and point-of-view shots. They are HARDCORE IN THE EXTREME.
Consider yourself suitably warned. If you do continue, it is at your own risk and discretion.
I speak, of course, of the EXTRAORDINARY Su-57, which we saw on display at Aero India 2025:
Here is but a taste of the manoeuvres it carried out at the expo:
And that was just a taster. Take a look at the real close-in shots of this incredible aircraft, in the hands of Sukhoi’s chief test pilot, the living legend, Sergei Bogdan:
You can actually SEE the thrust-vectoring nozzles moving in synchronisation with the control surfaces. It is MAGNIFICENT to behold.
Keep in mind, by the way, that is not even the final version of the Su-57. The “Felon” fleet currently in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces (unofficial mottoes: “often mistaken for the Wrath of God”, and “when it absolutely, positively, HAS to be destroyed overnight”) consists of at least 24 aircraft now – so it is a full fighter regiment – but they currently use the AL-41-F1 engines originally designed for the aerodynamically very different Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft. But soon, the entire fleet will be upgraded to the AL-51 standard of engines, which are purpose-built specifically for this aircraft, and should offer substantial improvements in stealthiness, as well as lower maintenance requirements and higher fuel efficiency.
This is the single most heavily combat-tested fifth-generation aircraft in the world. It has been used across almost every conceivable combat mission in Ukraine – air superiority, combat aerospace patrol, suppression of enemy air defences, reconnaissance, long-range interdiction, ground attack, and force coordination.
The dot-mil types love to boast about how the Joint Strike Flying Piano Morris Marina Turducken has greater situational awareness and integration than the Su-57 (or the F-22 – and that is actually true, in the latter case). The problem is, the F-35 has never been tested against a near-peer adversary in contested, AD-heavy airspace – and, given the capabilities of Russian, Chinese, and now Iranian air defence systems, it is probably fair to say that it would not survive in those environments for very long.
But the Su-57 has operated both within and outside Russian-controlled airspace, against Ukraine, and has achieved extreme-range air-to-air kills with hypersonic R-37M missiles. It has achieved strikes against Ukrainian air defence outputs using the latest Russian AGMs. And it is fully net-centric, which means it has the datalinks and capabilities to integrate its sensors and situational awareness with T-90M tanks, A-50 EAWACS, drones, ground troops, and of course its “buddy” drone, the S-70 Охотник (Hunter).
This is, simply put, an extremely advanced aircraft. And it passes the single most important test for a combat airplane:
IT WORKS IN COMBAT CONDITIONS.
Small wonder, then, that Algeria has apparently signed on to become the first recipient of the Su-57E export variant, and India is likely to follow. There are rumours that India wants to produce the Su-57E locally, under license – which is highly ironic, given the original Russian fifth-generation fighter jet programme was a joint-venture with India, back in the day, before India pulled out of the project due to wildly differing needs and design philosophies from both countries.
Today, however, the Indians recognise they are up Shit Creek (or the Ganges – same thing, really) without a paddle, because the Pakistanis are now buying highly capable Chinese 4++-generation aircraft, and may soon receive the Shenyang FC-35 fifth-generation fighter. India, by contrast, has a fifth-generation fighter in development, that will certainly not see a prototype ready for testing before 2030.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are ALREADY testing two prototypes of (allegedly) sixth-generation warplanes, and the Russians are hard at work on their top-secret MiG-41 sixth-generation plane, which will supposedly be able to operate at near-space altitudes, among other things.
It is all very STAR WARS, but then that is kind of the point of military PR0N – and that was the point of this poast.
Anyway, enjoy the aerobatics, lads.
BONUS: I found this rather amusing gem in my Telegram feed earlier today, and while it is completely unrelated, it is pretty awesome. On to the music break!
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The myth of American superiority is alive, and understandably so; no one wants to be anywhere but on the top of the pile. But the truth hurts and internal propaganda only makes things worse.
Very good briefing.