In order not to be left behind or appear to be behind the times, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti made an effort to get the message across that Russia is developing its own sixth-generation fighter jet. . So while the US has the NGAD program and the Anglo-Italian-Japanese consortium has the GCAP, Russia’s Today (Novosti’s news agency) made its own announcement. Twitter on January 5th.
Russia Today newspaper published the following revealing quote under the heading “Russia moves forward with development of sixth-generation fighter jet – Sukhoi”: “We need a power plant with significantly improved characteristics: very low specific consumption and high thrust,” said Sukhoi Design Director. Tas. ” This was probably intended by Sukhoi CEO Mikhail Pogosyan.
The tweet was accompanied by a CGI image purporting to show such a fighter jet. Unfortunately, this was a very poorly executed, clearly AI-generated rendering produced by X’s own Grok AI engine, and included the Grok trademark in the bottom right corner.
Rather than using Sukhoi-provided CGI imagery and what appears to be some kind of believable “sixth generation” aircraft, Russia Today’s illustrations feature no LO features of any kind. It showed what appeared to be a gentle, streamlined, three-engine Su-27. .
Do you hear a strange rumbling sound? Lo and behold, it’s Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi going to the grave.
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