[Yo-Yo]

I wouldn't be quite so hasty in dismissing the Russians.

[U-238]

As of this moment,the Raptor is still king of the skies

[tanknetter]

I wouldn't be quite so hasty in dismissing the Russians.

I wouldn't be quite so hasty in praising them. The Raptorski has a number of decidedly non-LO features (the jet exhausts, for instance, look directly lifted off of the Su-27, the IRST ball forward of the canopy as well) and many of the other features look to be direct copies of other known LO designs (wing planform is a near-duplicate of the F-22, the main fuselage the YF-23, the forward fuselage the F-35). This would indicate an attempt at reverse-engineering from sight and measurement, rather than the ability to conduct predictive-stealh trials using computers.

Add to that the pretty small control surfaces for what is allegedly supposed to be an air-dominance fighter. Plus the very good likelihood that the plane's "integrated" avionics/weapons-control suite is at least a generation, and maybe two, behind what the US is putting into the F-22 and F-35.

The Raptorski is certainly neat-looking, especially with the splinter cammo scheme. But good looks really say nothing about what lies underneath.