Vyacheslav Grushnikov
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Photo: Aleksey Ivanov / TV Zvezda / www.globallookpress.com
However, so far in Russia they do not show it in action.
The Russian Su-57 fighter copied the technology of the American F-22, which allows the missile to be pushed out of the inner compartment.
According to the EurAsian Times, Russia has tried to make a system similar to the one on the Raptor and pushing the AIM-9 out of the compartment under the wing.
All in all, the Su-57 has four internal compartments - two small ones in the wings and two larger ones in the fuselage. In March of this year, the Ministry of Defense published a video in which the Su-57 launches an air-to-air missile right on takeoff. However, it shows that the rocket hangs under the wing before launch, and then the pilot launches. At the same time, before this, the rocket is not visible, most likely, it left the compartment in advance using the above mechanism, and only then the pilot pressed the trigger.
According to The Aviationist, Russia is developing new missiles for the internal compartments of the Su-57, which are currently being tested. According to Western experts, it could be a modernized P-77 "Viper" or a short-range P-73 with an infrared homing system, also significantly modified.
Western publications have noticed that the video and air shows never show how the Su-57 opens its internal compartments, while the F-22 does it regularly. There is a version that there were some problems with this mechanism and had to be improved.
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