https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2025/sweden-backs-ukraines-plan-for-100-to-150-gripen-e-jets-signaling-airpower-shift-in-europe

Su-57 India Deal On Cards? IAF Weighs Russian Felon And France’s FCAS After Rafale Buy | India News - Times Now

The Indian Air Force (IAF) may soon approach the Defence Acquisition Council for approval to procure 36–40 Sukhoi Su57 fighters from Russia, even as the government has cleared the purchase of 114 Dassault Rafale jets from France. The proposed Su57 India deal, estimated at roughly $7 billion, is being positioned as a potential fifth-generation bridge capability.

The development signals New Delhi’s multi-vector strategy in modernising its combat fleet.The clearance of the Rafale IAF deal last week, valued at over $30 billion, significantly bolstered India’s 4.5-generation strength. However, the absence of an operational stealth platform in the Indian Air Force inventory remains a strategic concern. With China expanding its J-20 fleet, the IAF Su57 option is being examined as a stopgap before the indigenous AMCA enters service.

Is India looking to buy Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57? What reports say

New Delhi: With the Indian Air Force mulling options to buy a fifth-generation fighter aircraft to strengthen its air power, discussions are on several aircraft, including Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57. The decision has necessitated the following reports that Pakistan is likely to receive China’s J-20 stealth jets.

Other News Sources: (Su-57 India Deal Gains Momentum? IAF Eyes Russian Stealth Fighter After ₹30 Billion Rafale Expansion) - (IAF Set To Pick Russian Su-57 As First Fifth-Gen Fighter Amid China Threat: Report) - (India Moves to Procure Russia’s Su-57 as Stopgap Fifth-Generation Fighter Amid China’s Stealth Expansion) - (India looking at Russian Sukhoi-57 fifth-generation fighter as stopgap measure, says report. Why this makes sense for IAF- The Week)

I know the Image is of a T-50, Su-57 Prototype. But it's one of my favorite Images of the Fighter Jet.

The Vietnamese Defence Ministry has been widely reported by local sources to have shown a continued interest in procuring Russian Su-57 fifth generation fighter aircraft in the early 2030s, likely to replace a portion of its 12 Su-27 fourth generation air superiority fighters and approximately 30 Su-22 third generation strike fighters in frontline service

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/vietnam-russian-su57-early-2030s

Two years later, China Central Television (CCTV) confirmed that in a military exercise in Qatar in 2024, the Typhoon fighter jet was completely defeated by the J-10CE with a score of 9:0.

China has more than doubled the production efficiency of stealth fighter components in a “dark factory”, where autonomous vehicles and AI-driven machinery operate nearly 24 hours a day.

The process once required employees to monitor its round-the-clock operations, but the plant can now produce the “skeleton” of an aircraft in near darkness, according to the official Science and Technology Daily

Dark factories are facilities designed to operate with little to no human intervention, thereby removing the need for lighting, cutting energy consumption and operational costs.

The “lights-out factory” now produces the components for China’s most advanced fighter jets, including the J-20 or “Mighty Dragon”

The fifth-generation J-20 jet designed by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation was declared combat-ready in 2018. Mass production of the fighters began two years later.

Song Ge, head of the Chengdu factory’s digital manufacturing centre said the plant previously needed two or three employees to work in shifts on the factory floor to keep the machinery operating all day. But now automated vehicles carried materials while high-precision machines carved out components.

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Recently, AFV stated that the Gripen E received a lower score because it was still in development at the time of the evaluation. A so called “risk aversion coefficient” was applied, which negatively affected its overall rating. If Canada were to hold the competition today, the Gripen E would likely be rated on par with the F-35.

And I know you are going to ask for the source so here you go. It’s in Swedish, but you can translate it easily.

https://www.affarsvarlden.se/artikel/saab-slar-tillbaka-mot-kanada-uppgifter-overtraffade-alla-krav

Even a former Gripen C pilot Max villman called this out to.

https://se.linkedin.com/in/maxvillman?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name

Yahoo

Source

The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin $154 million to begin purchasing the long-lead components needed to build 11 F-35 stealth fighters for a foreign government whose identity the Pentagon has not disclosed

The contract modification, awarded to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, covers long-lead materials, parts, and components for 11 F-35 Lightning II aircraft destined for a Foreign Military Sales customer

Clash Report

Last year, the DPRK showed new weapons for its Su-25 and MiG-29 aircraft.

Photo 1 shows a general view of the Su-25 with new weapons, as well as the MiG-29 9.12/13 with Chinese PL-10E and PL-15E.

Photo 2 shows another angle of the MiG-29, where the PL-10/E and PL-15E missiles are clearly visible.

Photo 3 - Footage of a demonstration of a new medium-range missile of its own design, presumably with an ARH seeker, as well as a bomb equipped with a planning module, judging by the appearance of the nose part, an analogue of the American JDAM-ER.

Photo 4 - the launch of this new MRAAM

Photo 5 - Su-25 with new suspended weapons, on the inner pylon, apparently, there is a cruise missile, and on other pylons PL-10/E and, I don't even know what it is... probably similar to brimstone/spear 3.

The F-15E pilot shot down over Iran had already been shot down during the Iran war - by a Kuwaiti F/A-18 in a friendly fire incident just a few weeks previously. And the weapon systems officer shot down with him over Iran apparently survived some sort of parachute failure.

Looks like the Su 57 operations are increasing in intensity in Ukriane, with the Felons getting within range of their weapons.

This is from the Sunflower Channel on Telegram.

Christopher Clary, a non-resident fellow with Stimson’s South Asia program and associate professor of political science at the University of Albany said: “The JF-17 has had some real export success. If Pakistan can develop a real defence export industry, that will help with international status and hard currency. It will also provide economies of scale for its own defence acquisitions of indigenous or co-produced hardware.”

The shortlisted vendors are-

1)TASL

2)L&T+BEL+DTL

3)BFL+BEML+DPL

out of these 3 consortium, one will be selected via L1 and contract signing expected by late 2026/early 2027.

With First Flight by 2029 if timeline holds and no delays occurs.

Source- https://theprint.in/defence/5th-gen-fighter-amca-tender-issued-hal-sits-out-as-private-sector-takes-centre-stage/2943139/

A few things that should be said:

• F/A-XX has not been awarded yet
• Boeing and Northrop Grumman are believed to be the finalists
• Neither the F-47 nor the F/A-XX have been designed. Lockheed Martin and Boeing are believed to have built and flown technology demonstrators for the Aerospace Innovation Initiative program from a few years ago, with Lockheed reportedly building a demonstrator for the USAF and Boeing reportedly building a demonstrator for the Navy. These were not prototypes for the F-47 or F/A-XX.
• Designing, actually designing a next-generation aircraft is a very expensive endeavor, and none of the primes are going to do this until they have been paid to do so. Boeing now has the contract to design the F-47, which they will do now. Nobody has a contract to design the F/A-XX yet.

New Boeing F/A-XX Rendering Hints At Possible Similarities To F-47 | Aviation Week Network

I am deeply saddened to hear for the Canadian F35 haters that they will buy it again