Is Russia's Newest Stealth Jet Superior Over It's U.S. Rivals?

Russia’s Stealth Fighter Could Match U.S. Jets, Analyst Says -- Danger Room

Russia’s T-50 stealth fighter prototype, the first radar-evading warplane outside the U.S. when it debuted in January 2010, is slightly less stealthy than the American F-22 and about equal to the smaller F-35. But in several other respects the new warplane from the Russian Sukhoi design bureau is actually superior to the American models.

That’s the surprising conclusion of the first-ever public scientific analysis of the T-50′s Radar Cross-Section (RCS), completed this week by Dr. Carlo Kopp, an analyst with the independent think tank Air Power Australia.

“The shaping of the T-50 is inferior to that of the F-22 Raptor,” Kopp writes in his dense, jargon-heavy report. But the F-35 and T-50, he adds, exhibit “similar … RCS behavior.”

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My Comment: I do not know if it can match what the US Air Force can supply .... but I do know that it does not carry a $1 trillion dollar price tag.