The Sukhoi Su-57 was meant to replace the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters. As a result, the Su-57 is considered a 5th generation stealth fighter. The modern jet is capable of aerial combat as well as ground and maritime combat. There are a few variants of the Su-57, which has an anticipated service life of only 35 years: Su-57; Su-57E; Su-57MR-73 gets flared even at Point blank ranges unless fired from the enemy's ass sniffing it , meanwhile 9M ignores flares at 4Km range balans. The German Mig-29G is an old Mig-29 but gaijin gave it better engines than SMT , go check it , it's series 2 RD-33 , gaijin hates Russia people just don't see it. The Su-27 was developed in response to a need for a new air superiority fighter to replace the ageing MiG-25 and MiG-23 aircraft that were in service with the Soviet military at the time. One of the lessons from Mig 1.44’s failure was Russian economy being unable to afford designing a new LO airframe from scratch. You can see that all Russian aircraft designs post Cold War that saw daylight are mere modification of an existing airframe (Su-30, Su-35 and Mig-29K, Mig-35 being derivate of Su-27 and Mig-29). ‘The Su-57 program
The Flanker emerged as part of the high part of the high-low fighter mix that both the United States and the Soviet Union adopted in the 1970s and 1980s. In the U.S. Air Force this manifested in
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