“Work was also carried out to optimize the cost and analyze individual technical solutions, which made it possible to significantly increase competitiveness, commercial attractiveness and reduce the technical risks in creating a domestic single-engine engine.”
“During the time that has elapsed since the presentation of the project at MAKS 2021, we have received feedback from potential customers,” Minister Manturov explained. However, the Su-75 was always meant to be an export aircraft and the strategy may have been to find a way of filling the coffers via foreign sales to fund the production of the aircraft that will eventually serve with the Russian Aerospace Forces. In reality, if producing one advanced aircraft was proving difficult enough, trying to produce two was never going to make the process easier.
#SUKHOI CHECKMATE VIDEO SERIAL#
It was actually the second fifth-generation fighter aircraft to be developed by Russia, following the Sukhoi Su-57.Įven as the Kremlin has struggled to reach serial production of its Su-57 (NATO reporting name “Felon”), the Su-75 was seen to have some advantages – namely that it could build on what Russia had already accomplished. The Su-75 was first announced by the Russian state-owned conglomerate Rostec at the MAKS 2021 Airshow in Moscow. But at the same time, the principle of modularity and modern digital technologies made it possible to make these changes in the shortest possible time, and as early as 2024 we plan to start flight tests,” said Manturov.įast forward and today the Su-75 remains little more than vaporware and like some now infamous consumer offerings – from the Segway Centaur to the Apple iTV – it looks increasingly like the vapor will disperse, never to be seen again. “Changes were made to the design, which corrected the time of the first flight. The updated timeline was confirmed by Russia’s Minister of Industry and Commerce. The development status of the project is not yet known.Ī teaser video released by Rostec July 13 oriented the fighter project at the export market, with Argentina, India, UAE and Vietnam named as possible customers.Last summer, Russia announced that its highly-touted fifth-generation fighter, the Sukhoi Su-75 “ Checkmate,” wouldn’t have its inaugural flight until at least some time in 2024 – a delay of more than a year. The project appears to be a aligned with the Sukhoi Lightweight Tactical System (LTS), a single-engine, 18 metric-ton thrust, Mach 2 fighter that was revealed in a news report by the TASS news agency last May. The images were marked as “Checkmate,” with the tag line: “Guys, everything is simpler than you think.” The Russian conglomerate started teasing the announcement on July 13, releasing cryptic ads on social media of a Knight piece from a chess game floating or flying in the air.
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The video spoils Rostec’s hopes to reveal the full Checkmate configuration for the first time on July 20 on the first day of MAKS. Similar versions of the Kh-59, however, have a land attack role. The MK version of the missile includes an active radar seeker for the maritime strike mission. In the same display area as Checkmate, the video also showed a mock-up of an air-to-surface cruise missile that resembled the Kh-59MK and may be part of the display with the fighter model. The video was captured within the Rostec Checkmate pavilion at the MAKS air show on Zhukovsky Airbase outside Moscow. A composite image reveals the Sukhoi fighter nicknamed "Checkmate." Source: VIA TWITTER The image included a reflection in the glass of a naval warship, suggesting the purpose of the sensor contained within the sapphire glass has at least a maritime strike role. It was not clear from the angle of the video if the Checkmate fuselage contains a main internal weapons bay.Īs part of the Checkmate marketing campaign, Sukhoi parent Rostec tweeted an image of an F-35-style, sapphire glass aperture protruding from under the forward fuselage, indicating the presence of an electro-optic targeting system. The video appears to show the Checkmate model includes a side weapons bay large enough to store a short-range, air-to-air missile. Obvious differences from the Su-57 include the single-engine propulsion system and the apparent lack of leading-edge vortex controllers. In many ways, the configuration bears similarities with the Sukhoi’s twin-engined Su-57, especially the single-seat canopy design, infrared search and track blister ahead of the cockpit and the all-moving vertical stabilizers. The video confirms the single-engine fighter includes a ventral air inlet, delta wing and all-moving vertical stabilizers. A video has leaked showing the Sukhoi Checkmate fighter design two days before its scheduled reveal at the MAKS air show.
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