I tried to appreciate you initially but if you keep offending passing personal provocative comments, then others'll defend & let you know that they also have some credibility based on their qualification, industrial experience, while you can't give a basic intro.
Look at what i said -
Now look at your personal & useless comments -
I know which part offended you, but I have no intention of pleasing anyone, and I plan to keep going like this…
This comment is objective and neutral, without adding any personal feelings. Besides, you’re not my girlfriend, so why should I add personal feelings?
It's just the internet; who knows, I might not even be Chinese, I might be from Zimbabwe.
- What can we do if you being Chinese don't like your own jets? You can put these things in Chinese thread to discuss.
- Perhaps you can share a drawing how you envision a good jet & put it in Chinese thread.
“own jets” — no aircraft factory in China has ever paid my salary, so how did it become “mine”? Or maybe I should go check my bank card.
- I've always said that stealth = RAM+RAS+geometry+EW+tactics, but it's a fact that round surface is worst RF reflector, hence planform shaping.
- I shared a CAD by an artist with angular belly from front to back which looks much better.
Just believing it doesn’t make it true. And that CG you cited is by a well-known “wumao” on the Chinese internet. They firmly believe the J-20 is far superior to the F-22.
Oh, so when this Chinese person posts a CG, it gets cited on foreign networks,
but my CG is only allowed on domestic networks.
------------------Yet another display of double standards.
The Chinese are obsessed with scapegoating the Bolsheviks—including the Soviets and Russians—for every single problem they encounter.
For instance, when developing nuclear weapons, they harbored bitter resentment over the Soviet withdrawal of experts, as if that assistance was somehow their god-given right.
Another example: the Soviet Union practically gifted China the Northeast provinces, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Qinghai—vast territories making up half of modern China, lands that no Chinese regime in 3,000 years had ever effectively controlled. Yet, the Chinese still feel entitled to more, grumbling about being 'owed' Mongolia, Vladivostok, Sakhalin, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur, acting as though they had conquered the Japanese with their own two hands.
In the 1950s, the Chinese aviation industry was handed complete blueprints and entire production lines for the MiG-15, MiG-21, and Tu-16 on a silver platter. Yet, by 1990, they were still manufacturing the MiG-21 and Tu-16 (with the latter production stretching all the way into 2026). Then, they turned around and blamed the Soviets for 'teaching them wrong,' using it as an excuse for their own decades of stagnation. It’s an utter joke.
Consequently, after the 1991 collapse of the USSR, the entire nation, from top to bottom, began propagandizing that the American social structure was the ultimate truth. They celebrated finally breaking free from the 'Russian Overlord,' benchmarked everything against the US. Take the Type 99 tank—never mind why the turret was designed with a retro 1950s sloped armor and a hydrocephalic rear bustle, or how much it inflated the hit probability; as long as it looked American, it was deemed a success.
Regarding tank engines, because they couldn't break through their domestic technology bottlenecks, their V-2 derivatives remained stuck at 780 horsepower (with a fuel consumption rate roughly 15% higher than the Russian 1,100-hp counterparts). Consequently, they sourced a locomotive engine from Germany, frankensteined it into a tank engine bay, and loudly proclaimed a grand victory—simply because it matched their 'American Daddy's' nominal 1,500-hp benchmark.The "1500 Horsepower Club"—a term they invented specifically to describe the superior tank designs of their Western counterparts, even excluding the Mitsubishi Type 10—is a classic example of Chinese technology triumphing over Japan.
Of course, we all know how that turned out. Aside from Japan's Type 10 and South Korea's K2, the actual battlefield mobility of all other Western junk tanks suffers from a massive deficit compared to even a vintage Soviet T-64.Even regarding anti-ship missiles, they parroted that 'subsonic is best' and that only Soviet trash relied on supersonic speed—conveniently masking their own failure to master low-altitude sea-skimming guidance electronics because their 'American Daddy' only had the Harpoon.
It's the exact same story with these fighter jets. Just the other day when that F-35 was shot down by Iran, Chinese netizens completely lost their minds, unable to cope with the failure of their American savior.
Your CG art suffers from the exact same pathology. It’s a very familiar recipe.
Like the US = Correct
Unlike the US = Garbage
It's really that simple a principle.
(Honestly, my personal take on sixth-gen is 80 to 100 tons, four D30F6, dorsal inlets plus rough-field takeoff capability, lobbing free-fall bombs 300 kilometers out------Preferably four FAB-3000/5000 — to hell with stealth.)
- I've always said that stealth = RAM+RAS+geometry+EW+tactics, but it's a fact that round surface is worst RF reflector, hence planform shaping.
- I shared a CAD by an artist with angular belly from front to back which looks much better.
On the Chinese internet, we call this way of thinking “dog-eye RCS,” and a similar concept includes “dog-eye wind tunnel.”、"dog-eye rangefinder" and "dog-eye weighing scale"
Based on my observations, when it comes to high or low RCS,
they actually have only one real standard: if it looks like their 'American Daddy,' then the RCS is low;
-----if it doesn't look like their American Daddy, then the RCS is high.
The most textbook example of this bias is the endless whining over the 'exposed fan blades of the Su-57.' Yet, the X-32, YF-23, and B-2 all featured 'exposed fan blades' to some degree. In fact, the US Air Force themselves conceded that the YF-23's stealth performance was actually superior to that of the F-22.
This is the ultimate death-blow to their logic.
Based on this, I always drop this question on them: 'The MiG-29 and Yak-130 can completely close off their main air intakes. Wouldn't that mean their RCS is even lower? After all, even if the F-22 hides its fan blades, it still leaves a gaping hole. The Yak-130, when its intakes are sealed shut, presents a perfectly flush surface. It
must have a lower RCS than the F-22, right?'
And without fail, every single one of them just plays dead.
you could give me an answer to that?
Following that exact trajectory:
seeing fan blades > hiding fan blades > having no intakes at all.
By that textbook definition,
I have every reason to conclude that missiles are inherently more invisible than the actual jets carrying them.
SO:
And to fire a weapon it should have a direct lock or indirect guidance & with much lower RCS a jet would have much better chance to break the lock.
A “stealth” aircraft alone = stealthy.
A standalone air-to-air missile with a physical size under 0.1 square meters = stealthy.
A “stealth” fighter +
A standalone air-to-air missile with a physical size under 0.1 square meters = not stealthy.
What a marvelous equation. This equation is very common,
but every time I ask the people who created it to explain it, they are completely at a loss. Are you one of them?
Clearly you've realized this too ——— so if it were up to me, of course I'd send 4 assault aircraft in the front group with no external stores, and a rear support group of 4 to 8 aircraft all fully loaded with KS-172s.
—————————— Of course, the ultimate solution can be abstracted as directly using data links to guide long-range surface-to-air missiles to engage — like the 40N6.
This is a capability the Su-57 has from the very beginning, while the F-22 is still far from it.
Su-57 could be a better gunfighter with superior TVC, 50-50 chance with CCMs, but in BVR, like i said above " the entity more visible on the outside gets seen & attacked 1st, no matter how good inside."


How come I’ve never seen anyone say that the MiG-21, with an RCS of only 3 square meters, had any first-look, first-detect advantage against the F-4 with an RCS of over 20 square meters?
The F-15’s RCS is also larger than that of the Su-27, MiG-29, F-16, and Mirage 2000.
But I’ve never heard anyone claim that the F-15 would be detected first and therefore get attacked.
Just like gravity as a physical phenomenon suddenly appeared overnight after Newton got hit by the apple — before the F-22, how come no one ever gave a damn about the impact of RCS in air combat?
——— Double standards.
Therefore, your scale is flawed.
RCS = Armor;
Radar, L-band radar, infrared detectors = Swords.
Perhaps the F-22 has higher armor, but the Su-57's sword-like advantage is greater.
F-22 is qouted M 1.8 SuCr while Su-57 quoted M1.3-1.6
The Su-57 has long-range air-to-air missiles and data-link sharing with the S-400.
The Su-57 has higher inlet efficiency than the F-22.
- I did mark the side radar aspect in the table as "may be in MLU" in RED, then why're you raising this point again & again?
- And bcoz it was originally planned but not implemented, hence i speculated may be for MLU. What's the big fuss in it?
Because, literally speaking, the F-22 has been in service for 20 years
MLU ×
ELU ✓
E=End-of-life
- It's not about just 1 or few chips but a complete system which is very costly to R&D. These are way beyond even the costly servers in datacenters.
- CPU, cache memory, PCB, etc are among most expensive components in any computer system.
- Ultimately their computing capabilities are different, 3 BIPS Vs 10.5 BIPS as per current search.
- We've been doing performance analysis in datacenter since 20 years & it's the toughest & most tricky task. Many times the bottlenecks occur in the most unexpected parts, even after the manufacturers did so much R&D to make the components & setup.
- There are computing & network architecture & topologies, efficiency of OS, protocols, etc to be considered.
- YF-22 & many jets so far crashed due to system glitch.
- A lagger country with limited money, R&D, perhaps dependent on import, has to remain satisfied with whatever it can arrange.
- The leader country with highest R&D will enjoy better quality, capability, at more cost bcoz quality comes with price, but it's still affordable to the leader nation even in less numbers as they sell& generate revenue but not equally to lagger nations.
> Like i said above, to lead, huge investment is needed & ultimately 1 day by trial & error success is achieved & customers line up generating revenue, what we call ROI or Return On Investment.
> IDK about China, but non-computer manufacturing nations, dependent on West, don't seem to be happy at all. They fear their IT industry can collapse if West does arm twisting.
> This is contradiction bcoz -
- if things get obsolete quickly then already older, higher NM, less capable CPUs may suffice for few years but with lesser performance & will need upgrade.
- Military equipment is very generic term, with numerous size, scale, need, performace, etc, needing variety of chips, custom to the platform.
- Lesser the nanometer, more dense the CPU becomes, more the MIPS/BIPS, more avionics can be accomodated, better the radar/sensor performance, more targets can be simultaneously scanned, tracked, locked, better the sensor fusion, better the data sharing.
> The idea is that higher capable system takes advantage over lesser capable one.
The ultra-high-speed, disorderly development of hardware has already led to extreme performance overkill. Bitcoin is a prime example of this ——— along with the new industry spawned by Bitcoin speculators pivoting into it: the AI bubble. Both make this reality abundantly clear. My main workstation runs dual 2687W v2; my TV PC has an E3-1230 V2 (swapped in a 2800X a week ago — purely for the transparent RGB case — and also fitted a Radeon VII, but the TV itself is only 60Hz); my home gaming rig is a 3940MX-XP/7; my office machine is a 7800X3D (so I can sneak in some gaming); my meeting laptop is a 10810U; and I also have a 4K-screen 4940MX and an H365 laptop as well as a 5800HX notebook that I barely use.Back then I even shelled out a lot of money for a 6900 XT Liquid-Cooled Toxic — and the fans never even spun up. Now it's worth just one-seventh of what I paid. The most demanding game I ever played on it was GTA5, but it was never as fun as Heroes of Might and Magic III or SimCity 4 — I have zero interest in it. ———In fact, even the performance of a More than ten years ago‘s 3940MX is enough to satisfy over 90% of the office user base,The 1060/1070 level still accounts for half of the gaming user base. — let alone military equipment. And the defining trait of advanced-process chips: they're delicate.
Again going in circle. We all are judging & giving opinion based on something. So it's your misunderstanding that i'm supporting USA, while i'm simply focussing on tech aspects & R&D state. So there's no need to get entangled in gen #, standard & document, bcoz that doesn't change RCS, IRS.
- I already said that except RCS, Su-57 seems better.
- However, a good jet needs to be good both in & out. More visible outside means 1st to be seen & attacked.
- Also, detecting a faint object is 1 thing & confirming a genuine target & getting a lock for firing solution is another thing.
- Both Su-57 & F-22 have wing mounted sensors, the paint patch for sensors are grey color, which your eyes want to intentionally ignore & deny.
- Su-57 radar being newer could have higher detection range than F-22 for same RCS object, but with F-22's RCS as target that range reduces a lot.
- Su-57's IRST range is qouted 50 Kms against non-afterburning head-on targets, far less than radar ranges.
- So F-22 needs to detect, lock, fire on Su-57 b/w 50-150 Kms range. It can win BVR in this range otherwise it'ld loose mostly within 50 Kms.
- Under-wing stealth IRST pod & AN-AAR-56 replaced by TacIRST will tilt overall chances in F-22's favor.
- Also, round IRST worse than angled one, hence F-22's under-wing IRST are angled. There's speculation that Su-57 might have EOTS like cover for IRST.
In my view, fifth-gen is all a product of failure. The Su-57 is the relatively better one among them. should skip fifth-gen entirely and go straight for sixth-gen.
Chances are, manned fighter jets won't even live to see seventh-gen before being completely replaced by ground-based firepower, data-linked surface-to-air missiles, and suicide drones — or reduced to nothing more than an anti-drone platform.