Russian Su-75 Checkmate fighter

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Russian Su-75 Checkmate fighter

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:45 pm

Trouble is that Russia will need an active partner to make this aircraft a viable proposition and as India showed by rejecting such a role with the SU-57, the Russians might have some serious issues in finding such a partner.

Sukhoi shows off Checkmate 5th-Gen fighter to compete with F-35

At this year's MAKS-21 air show outside Moscow, Sukhoi unveiled a mock-up of its latest fifth-generation fighter aircraft. Called the Checkmate SU-75, it is designed as an "inexpensive" rival to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.

A subsidiary of the United Aircraft Corporation, Sukhoi is developing the Checkmate primarily as an export aircraft to take on the F-35 in the marketplace. For all its advanced capabilities, the F-35 comes with an eye-watering price per plane of US$80 million, so a fighter craft like the Checkmate, with an initial estimated cost of US$30 million, could be attractive to more budget-conscious air forces.

According to Sukhoi, the Checkmate is a stealthy, delta-wing light tactical fighter notable for its canted vertical tails and an internal weapons bay with room for five air-to-air missiles and an auto-cannon. It's also equipped with a multiband passive detection system, improved stealth capability, an electronic warfare system, and an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, which uses signal emissions across a wider range of frequencies to make detecting the radar signal against background noise more difficult.

Both the OAK and Sukhoi officials state that the airplane should make a first flight in two years and that series production could begin in as soon as four, although most experienced observers state that 5-7 years is a more realistic. Program projections such as these have a tendency to always move to the right — even in countries with more than one generation of experience in designing stealth aircraft.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to suggest that the full-scale production of the Su-75 could be a much longer time in coming — if ever.
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Re: Russian Su-75 Checkmate fighter

#2 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:27 pm

A brilliant pisstake of the Septic style of salesmanship of a 'paper' aeroplane!



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Could only have been improved by employing Redd Pepper to do the voiceover without a hint of a European immigrant accent.

Didn't Russia ever have a Russian equivalent of Don LeFontaine?

Smoke'n mirrors ain't worth sheeyit unless you've got the voiceover right.

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Re: Russian Su-75 Checkmate fighter

#3 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:45 pm

Undried Plum wrote:
Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:27 pm
A brilliant pisstake of the Septic style of salesmanship of a 'paper' aeroplane!



=)) :YMAPPLAUSE:

Could only have been improved by employing Redd Pepper to do the voiceover without a hint of a European immigrant accent.

Didn't Russia ever have a Russian equivalent of Don LeFontaine?

Smoke'n mirrors ain't worth sheeyit unless you've got the voiceover right.
Gives the complete meaning to "vapourware!"
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Re: Russian Su-75 Checkmate fighter

#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:04 pm

I guess it is not for nothing that the SU-75 is the numeric reverse order of the SU-57. Both aircraft face the same development issues, and the key issue for their development is the fact that the Russian Federation doesn't have the money to undertake the hugely expensive programmes required to bring both aircraft to operational release en masse. The development of the SU-57 has been stymied ever since the Indians withdrew from financial participation in that programme and a similar issue pertains with respect to the withdrawal of UAE interest in the development of the SU-75 after the USA removed their embargo on the sale of F-35 to the UAE.

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 68.article
Five countries are interested in procuring Russia’s first stealth fighter, said Alexander Mikheev, director general of Rosoboronexport on 20 July, without naming potential parties.

“The interest from foreign customers has risen substantially,” he says. “The aircraft does have a high export potential despite the unfair competition in the form of sanctions.”

Moscow blames the USA’s Countering America’s Adversaries Through Economic Sanctions Act (CAATSA) for frustrating its foreign aircraft sales, claiming that the law has also stymied a proposed deal to export 11 Su-35s to Indonesia. CAATSA was enacted in retaliation for Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine’s eastern regions and Crimea, as well as its military deployment in Syria and interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

The Russian air force has ordered 76 examples of the domestic variant of the stealth fighter. The first Su-57 from serial production was delivered in January.

The first export customer of the Su-57E remains elusive, however. Potential customers for the fighter that have been floated by outside observers include Algeria, China, Turkey and Vietnam. Yet, Rosoboronexport has been silent about discussions with foreign buyers, declining to name potential customers.

Even with the cancellation of a joint production project for the aircraft with India in 2018, Russia has not ruled out similar agreements with other interested parties, noting its experience with setting up production offset programmes for the Su-30.

The export agency is bullish about striking potential deals at Russia’s biggest air show, notwithstanding travel restrictions and rising levels of Covid-19 infections in Moscow that have kept some visitors away.

“Despite the well-known difficulties here at the show, [Russian] industry is demonstrating some of its latest products in the static and the flight demo programme,” Mikheev says. “As for Rosoboronexport, we are all set to promote Russian products worldwide and engage in co-operational projects with foreign customers, using MAKS 2021 as a meeting point.”
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Re: Russian Su-75 Checkmate fighter

#5 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:19 pm

Paperware = vapourware

Nice piece of puff-ware, though.

Almost certainly funded by puffmoney printed by the green machine south of the Bretton Woods Hotel, methinks.

Not proppa munny. Just puffware, valued in terms of puffmunny.

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