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The Su-57: Vaporware, or Just Bad Marketing?
Evan Moloney20 November 2025
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- Russia’s Su-57 fails to deliver as a fifth-generation fighter but remains a capable advanced fourth-generation aircraft poorly served by its marketing strategy.
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Russia's Su-57 was advertised as a world-changing superweapon, but its conspicuous absence from Ukrainian skies tells a very different story about the fighter…
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