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Checkmate is a very conventional standalone airframe, and has not been designed alongside a system of loyal wingmen, adjuncts and effectors. Tempest, NGF/NGWS/SCAF, NGAD all have. Russia has not begun to develop the kind of network that such a system would require.Let's ignore inconvenient truths for a moment, and pretend to take Checkmate seriously. It's still a down and dirty 'bitsa' blending a new fuselage with the existing nose, wings and tailfins (but not the horizontal tail) of the bigger, heavier, twin engined Su-57. It's hardly the product of a proper design process, let alone the kind of process that has produced the new generation of aircraft.Calling Checkmate an aircraft 'belonging to the past generation of platforms' is actually being rather kind. If it is, then it's a KF-21, not an F-22 or F-35.
Checkmate is a very conventional standalone airframe, and has not been designed alongside a system of loyal wingmen, adjuncts and effectors. Tempest, NGF/NGWS/SCAF, NGAD all have. Russia has not begun to develop the kind of network that such a system would require.
Let's ignore inconvenient truths for a moment, and pretend to take Checkmate seriously. It's still a down and dirty 'bitsa' blending a new fuselage with the existing nose, wings and tailfins (but not the horizontal tail) of the bigger, heavier, twin engined Su-57. It's hardly the product of a proper design process, let alone the kind of process that has produced the new generation of aircraft.
Calling Checkmate an aircraft 'belonging to the past generation of platforms' is actually being rather kind. If it is, then it's a KF-21, not an F-22 or F-35.
