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Absolutely, on this video, both at the beginning of the video (about 5 seconds in) and between 45 seconds and 1 minute you can see two types of thrust vectoring nozzles work quickly and precisely. I don't know what they're called, one moves the entire nozzle (as used in AL-31 derivatives) and the other only moves the petals (as used in RD-33 derivatives). Either way, they both seem to be suitable for it.For me the question has always been whether or not there will be enough control authority at low thrust.As for commonality between the Su-57 and this, has it been confirmed that they will share as much of the airframe as the mockup seems to? It could be that they threw the wings, rudders, etc on it as they had those available and the final design or construction of the real airframe isn't finalized, and I'm pretty sure there's still plenty of time to finish designing, building and do ground tests before the first flight in 2023.
Absolutely, on this video, both at the beginning of the video (about 5 seconds in) and between 45 seconds and 1 minute you can see two types of thrust vectoring nozzles work quickly and precisely. I don't know what they're called, one moves the entire nozzle (as used in AL-31 derivatives) and the other only moves the petals (as used in RD-33 derivatives). Either way, they both seem to be suitable for it.
For me the question has always been whether or not there will be enough control authority at low thrust.
As for commonality between the Su-57 and this, has it been confirmed that they will share as much of the airframe as the mockup seems to? It could be that they threw the wings, rudders, etc on it as they had those available and the final design or construction of the real airframe isn't finalized, and I'm pretty sure there's still plenty of time to finish designing, building and do ground tests before the first flight in 2023.
