Is there a Moderate Form of Political Islam?

[Anomalocaris]

I suspect chronic underinvestment in fabrication and assembly capability also played a role.    I would not be too surprised if the su-57 was designed to reuse as much of the existing production tooling for the su-27/30/35 family as possible.

The plane is the new Turkish fighter, not a Russian plane.

But the photo of the plane in flight with poorly finished screw holes on the wing is the Russian Su-57, not the new Turkish fighter.


Photos of the TF-X Faan prototype during it first flight seem to show better basic attention to stealth shaping in some areas compared to the Su-57, such as the in faceted shapes of ends of leading edge slats, and electro optical sensors hidden behind faceted glass windows with radar reflecting coated glass.