Direct foreign competitors of the Russian SU-35 fighter can be called American aircraft F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, RIA Novosti stated in the Federal Service for Military Cooperation (FSVTs) of Russia.
“Despite the fact that the Russian SU-35 fighter refers to the classification to a 4 ++ generation, for the aggregate of its flight and combat characteristics, this plane approaches the fighters of the fifth generation,” said the department.
In FSVTs, noted that “with optimism look at the export of this car, as it causes more and more interest, despite the increasing unfair competition and well-known attempts to discredit our technique.”
In July 2020, in the publication of the Chinese portal Global Times, the fifth generation fighters were called American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II, as well as Chinese J-20, but not Russian Su-57. The publication-oriented publication that oversees the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, led the opinion of the Deputy Director for Science and Technology of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the General Designer J-20 Yana Vayya.