That was a crean shot from a combat operation in Syria. It's not CGI, it was released by the Russian Defense Ministry. As for the "truth", you just posted a wordpress webpage from some random person. I will rather take the word of the Chief designers and engineers at Sukhoi as truth rather then random morons on the internet that have zero access to the program. The SU-35 and SU-57 have radically different radars, engines, and weapons but some random idiot makes a Wordpress page claiming false narratives and you actually post it as "truth".
Bellow is the 'serrated' nozzles which is exactly what is on the F-35 and J-20, regardless I am again amazed that you are able to eyeball RCS without ever using anechoic chambers or any other observable scientific methods.
In the real world wars are fought asymmetricly. Even with old conventional aircraft simple mission planning, right munitions and support from other assets such as AWACS can insure that a mission is carried out without the enemy ever having any idea of an attack before they are dead.
Even if some missile was able to get a shot off at the SU-57, the aircraft is designed to
detect and defeat the threat.
Afterall it has a MIRS, DIRCM, and electricinc warfare capabilities, meaning the SU-57 would know if an incoming threat is heading its way and likely jam or disable the threat. The worst case scenario is that it would have to perform evasive maneuvers and deploy counter measures in which it is excellent at doing. In any case it was designed to hit targets at long range, it's unlikely that it would even be seen by powerful AWACS platforms, let alone fighter aircraft once it released its weapons from some 300kms away.
You are assuming the designers at Sukhoi and its subsidiary's are that dumb and only you and a handful of other random people on the internet are smarter.
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No it doesn't, there is no such concept. Nothing can give "extra surface" if it's already presently part of the aircraft. Either you are speaking of a discontinuity or a moving flight control surface.
Firstly
discontinuity:
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If the SU-57 LEVCONs are so problematic of a discontinuity then so are the F-35s panels, bays, etc.you can't have it both ways. What's bad for the SU-57 should be equally bad for the F-35, unless physics suddenly started to bend the rules in favor of one aircraft.
If you speak of a moving flight control surface. All aircraft including the F-22 use FBW to keep the aircraft from falling out of the sky, in other words it's flight controls are constantly moving to keep the inherently unstable aircraft airborne. Where you are very mistaken is believing the LEVCON is s amflight control surface--it's not. It doesn't move like a stabalizer to keep the aircraft stable, it only moves slightly depending on airspeed.