According to Wei Kewei, a photo of the equipment of the Russian Aerospace Forces' Su-57 fighter jet appeared online during the Chinese New Year. From the information in the photo, it can be seen that the two Su-57 fighter jets in the picture, one with the number "01" and the other with the number "02", are undoubtedly another mass-produced Su-57 fighter jet received by the Russian Aerospace Forces around the end of 2021. With this, the number of mass-produced Su-57 fighter jet equipment units has finally reached a record high of two.

In addition, according to the plan of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the first batch of 24 Su-57 fighter jets are ready to be installed before 2025, thus forming the first Su-57 fighter squadron; Before 2027, the Russian Aerospace Forces planned to install 50 Su-57 fighter jets to ensure that the equipment scale of Su-57 would be expanded to over 70 by 2027. Although this data is still not very impressive, the Russian Aerospace Forces only equipped 98 Su-35s and only 118 Su-30SMs, which is actually a considerable number of Su-57s with over 70 aircraft.

Since the Su-57 fighter jet has already begun to be equipped, with the gradual expansion of the Su-57 equipment scale, it is estimated that another interesting topic, the foreign trade of the Su-57 fighter jet, especially the military trade with China, will soon be put on the "discussion agenda" of military fans in military media. Do you still remember the domestic military forums from 2013 to 2015, where everyone was discussing the export issue of the Su-35S? It was like pouring bricks and saliva, and information was like snowflakes moving up. Someone vowed that China would buy a lot of Su-35S, and the performance of Su-35S could surpass that of the J-20. Because they were always playing tricks, they were even given a "high-level" nickname by everyone (the old man in CD knows who Big Ivan is talking about). Although the "high-level" in China did indeed import the Su-35S, but equipped it with more J-16s and J-20s, there has been no news since then. However, with the mass production and deployment of the Su-57 fighter jet, who knows if there will be similar "high-level" in the future military fan community who advocate buying the Su-57 fighter jet at will?

At least for the current state of technology of the Su-57 fighter jet, whoever buys it is really a winner. After all, on the one hand, its N036 radar has not yet passed the Russian national test, on the other hand, the engine it uses is still AL-41F (117 engine), and on the third hand, at least the first batch of Su-57 fighter jets will be equipped for the 929 center to continue test flights. That is to say, at least until 2025, all mass-produced Su-57 fighter jets will still be at the level of "leading trials", and there are still a bunch of national trials that have not been completed, with low reliability and combat effectiveness remaining on paper. Do you dare to buy Su-57 fighter jets with this technological state? If you dare to buy, go and be a guinea pig for the Russians.

The real import timing for the Su-57 fighter jet will at least wait until after the 2025 milestone. According to Russia's plan, the first step is to complete the national test of the N036 radar, and the second step is to start test flights with the installation of the 30 engine product. This means that the current batch of Su-57 fighter jets has initially formed combat effectiveness. At that time, although the complete version of the product-30 could not be mass-produced, at least the 2021 technical status of this version allowed for stable mass production and export.

However, if you think about 2025, how many J-20 fighter jets will the Chinese Air Force have equipped, not to mention the fact that the equipment of the third and a half generation fighter jets may be even more than that of the US Air Force

Source: Military of Strong Countries