Russia is vigorously promoting the Su-57E stealth fighter to India, even making promises that if India purchases the Su-57E, Russia will transfer a series of Su-57 technologies. However, India has not shown strong interest in purchasing the Su-57E, and instead has become increasingly confident in its own capabilities. In this context, more and more Indians are calling on the Indian government to reject Russia's proposal and accelerate the development of its indigenous fifth-generation fighter, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).
IDRW, an Indian military media, stated: "The speculation that producing the Su-57 in India or jointly improving it with Russia would significantly speed up the AMCA project is no longer realistic. By the time the Su-57 deal is finally concluded, the AMCA will have a significant advantage in all key areas."
IDRW believes that the AMCA has already surpassed the Su-57 in many technical aspects. These include: 1. The Uttam Mk2 active electronically scanned array radar used by the AMCA has over 1400 T/R modules and uses advanced gallium nitride material; 2. The integrated sensor suite (infrared target search and tracking system, electro-optical target tracking system, and a distributed antenna system with 360° omnidirectional sensing capability) is two generations ahead of the N036 Belka and 101KS Atoll systems used by the Su-57; 3. The AMCA will use a full-composite material DSI inlet with an S-shaped internal structure, along with advanced radar-absorbent coatings, resulting in a very small frontal radar cross-section (detectable only from 15-40 km away). However, the Su-57's compressor blades are exposed, and its fuselage skin uses riveting technology with semi-embedded rivets, which negatively affects its radar cross-section. Its frontal radar cross-section is significantly larger than that of the AMCA (the Su-57 can be detected from 60-100 km away); 4. Russia is actively developing the AL-51F1 turbofan engine, but its mass production has repeatedly been cut, and it has not yet been equipped on the Su-57. In contrast, the 120 kN turbofan engine jointly developed by India's GTRE and France's Safran is expected to be certified between 2033 and 2034. Therefore, Indian media concludes: "We have already surpassed the Su-57 in technology. When the AMCA becomes operational in 2035, any Su-57 purchased by the Indian Air Force will be a heavier, faster fourth-and-a-half-plus++ generation aircraft with significantly inferior technological advancement and limited stealth capabilities."
It must be said that when it comes to boasting and self-satisfaction, there are few people on Earth who can match the Indians. Look at the LCA "Tejas" fighter, how can the Indians dare to say that the AMCA surpasses the Su-57? Even if Russia is mediocre, its experience and technical accumulation in the aviation field are not comparable to India's. Over the years, India has been working hard, but the number of fighters has not increased but decreased, and the technological level of fighters has also widened. The Indians' peculiar confidence is always taking paper parameters as actual ones, thinking that a bit of boasting can become reality. Watch and see, when India's fifth-generation fighter AMCA is finally completed, the eighth-generation fighter of the neighboring panda may have already taken off.
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