Su-57 was already used to bomb Syria.
According to Indian Air Force, and India paid 90% of the R&D until Apr 2018, dilapidating $6.1bn at it, Su-57 is not even stealth !!!! It just has a little lower RCS than Su-35.
Russia tried to develop an active stealth system similar to French SPECTRA and tried to sell it to India... According to IAF, it's useless, they already have way more efficient Israeli and French electronic warfare systems in their Sukhois or MiGs.
Indian Su-30MKI does not flies any more with Vympel air-to-air missiles : R-77 has been replaced by Rafael I-Derby-ER and R-73 by MBDA MICA-IR or MICA-NG/IR. HAL integrated these on its own.
IAF wanted to integrate the Meteor LRAAM but it'd be too expensive: it'd need to either carry a Rafale's radar in a pod or have Thales creating a large "RBE-3/AESA" to replace the outdaed PESA radar...
And one must really be dumb to blow a mirador with a cruise missile...
Has Sukhoi adapted the looted washing machines chips to replace Su-57's subsystems that are under embargo?
