StrategyPage reports that Russia’s Sukhoi design bureau has won the contract to build the next-generation stealth fighter-bomber.
It will be based on the experimental S-37 platform, pictured here, which was in turn based partly on the successful S-27 Flanker program. If the Russians can solve their quality control problems building this plane, it should prove quite formidable.
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