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The Su-47’s design emphasized extreme dogfighting agility.

It couldn’t survive the fall of the Soviet Union. Here's What You Need to Remember: In the end, the Su-47 was never more than a privately-developed tech demonstrator—one that ended up demonstrating that forward-swept wings were an idea whose time had not yet come. Instead, Russian fighters like the Su-35S multi-role fighter and Su-57 stealth jet rely upon thrust-vector control turbofans, which can tilt exhaust nozzles, to achieve super-maneuverability. In 1996, the March/April issue of Russian military periodical Air Fleet Bulletin published an innocuous-seeming photo of a meeting betwe...

The Berkut ended up pioneering several technologies which eventually found their way into the Su-57. Here's What You Need To Remember: In the end, the Su-47 was never more than a privately-developed tech demonstrator—one that ended up demonstrating that forward-swept wings were an idea whose time had not yet come. Instead, Russian fighters like the Su-35S multi-role fighter and Su-57 stealth jet rely upon thrust-vector control turbofans, which can tilt exhaust nozzles, to achieve super-maneuverability. In 1996, the March/April issue of Russian military periodical  Air Fleet Bulletin ...

This fighter promised to be revolutionary, so how did it fall short?