MAIN FEATURES
All-moving vertical stabilisers able
to toe inwards to act as an airbrake
Forward retracting, semi-levered,
steerable twin nosewheel unit
Forward retracting, single
wheel main gear unit
Adjustable Leading Edge Vortex
Controllers (LEVCONs) (drooped)
Rectangular LED landing/taxi
lights on nosegear oleo
Retractable IFR
probe (extended)
Leading edge flap/trailing
edge flaperons (lowered)
PTK-50 brake
chute system -
2 x cruciform
brake chutes in
dorsal housing
Sukhoi Su-57 (armed and dirty)
101KS-O DIRCM
N036B-1-01L
side looking
X-band antenna
S-111-N comms suite antennas in dielectric fin caps
N036Sh Pokosnik IFF system integrated
into aircraft radar arrays
101KS-U/01 MAWS
101KS-O DIRCM
2 x linear internal weapon bays with
quick action doors, each with 2 x
pantographic ejector racks
L402 Ghimalayi active
jammer antennas in tail
sting and wingtips, also
uses N036 antennas
101KS-N NAV/targeting pod
can be added under port intake
Quick launch weapons bay with
pop-out VPU-50 missile launch rails
GSh 301 30 mm
(1.18 in) single-
barrel cannon
with 150 rounds
N036-1-01 Belka
X-band AESA radar
101KS-U/01 MAWS sensors
101KS-V (OLS-50M) IRST/LR
installed in fairing
101KS-U/02
MAWS sensor
ShKAI-50 wide-angle HUD
N036L-1-01 L-band
antennas in leading
edge flaps and
LEVCONs
2 x hardpoints under each wing
1 x ventral/downward
firing 14-round UV-50-01
IRCM flare dispenser
in tail sting
2 x dorsal upward/
outward firing 14-
round UV-50-01
IRCM flare dispensers
in tail sting
Prominent 'quick launch'
weapons bay
Intake boundary
layer spill louvres
Sukhoi Su-57 (armed)
ASEA radar (port
side array)
MAWS sensor/fairing
All-moving vertical stabilisers with 48º leading and -14º
trailing edges, able to toe inwards to act as an airbrake
Upper hemisphere DIRCM
Blended body/wing design
Prominent
tail 'stinger'
2 x Lyul'ka (NPO Saturn) AL-41F1
(Izdeliye 30) thrust vectoring turbofans
Lower hemisphere DIRCM
Ventral MAWS sensor
Intake air spill grille
Air data probes
Retractable IFR
probe (port side)
Adjustable Leading Edge
Vortex Controllers (LEVCONs)
Large, leading edge extensions with LEVCONs
Radome with
'zipper' strips
Outboard canted vertical stabiliser
IRST/LR sensor offset to starboard
Rearward sliding,
single-piece canopy
Single-piece wraparound
windshield
GSh 30-1 30 mm cannon
on starboard side
Brake
chute
cover
single section
leading edge
flap
All-moving
tailplanes with
48º leading and
-14º trailing
edge sweep
Cooling inlets in fin base with inward cant
Dorsal MAWS sensor
Mid-mounted cropped delta
wing with 48º leading edge
sweep, -14º trailing edge
Wide-spaced
intakes/engine
nacelles
Two-section
flaperon
Wing 'quick launch'
weapon bay
Actuator fairings
Zvezda K-36D-5 zero-zero
ejector seat
Cannon bay vent
Air data probe
ASEA radar
(starboard array)
Cannon bay muzzle cover, opens when fired
'Glass' cockpit with HOTAS
Sukhoi Su-57 (clean)
SUKHOI Su-57: 2
SUKHOI Su-57 (NATO – Felon)
ILLUSTRATIONS: © ADRIAN DAVID MOORE 2015 • NO ITEMS MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER
ILLUSTRATIONS: © ADRIAN DAVID MOORE 2015