Article Summary - China’s 2016 deal for 24 Russian Su-35s was never about fleet size; it was about technology. -Beijing wanted the AL-117S engines, Irbis-E radar, and thrust-vectoring know-how it ...

Suppose the identical quality that renders a fighter aircraft revolutionary is also the one that keeps it from ever actually flying as a weapon of war. The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut is a stark case history ...