The Russian fighter jet now has a secret function that no one suspected.

Domestic aircraft manufacturers announced that the newest Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 received a unique function that no longer exists in any of the combat aircraft. We are talking about a special complex that performs the function of a co-pilot - in fact, it is an electronic complex that allows the pilot to fight without even knowing about the current situation.

"The debate about whether the Russian Su-57 is a fifth-generation fighter is already fading away," military expert Alexei Leonkov assures in the publication of the weekly Zvezda. According to the author, the Su-57, unlike the American F-35 Lightning II, satisfies the network-centric criterion, since the Russian "fifth generation aircraft began to take its wings when the National Defense Control Center [of the Russian Ministry of Defense] was already on 57-hour combat duty." The expert does not disclose how the current Russian satellite constellation ensures the implementation of network centricity in relation to the Su-XNUMX, which has not yet been adopted for service, but assures that the latter received a "fundamentally new complex of on-board equipment" that acts as a "co-pilot." The author writes that such an electronic "co-pilot" provides the function of "hypothetical processing of information from surveillance and sighting systems, provides intelligent support for the pilot in solving combat missions in critically difficult conditions of modern air combat" ", - about it сообщает Russian information publication "Lenta.ru".

It is assumed that thanks to the unique function, the pilot will be able not only to receive objective information about the enemy, his attacks and attempts to use one or another weapon, but also will be able to simultaneously attack several targets, which makes it possible to fight with several opponents at once, especially, that the Su-57 is armed with a missile capable of hitting targets beyond the pilot's field of vision.

Experts believe that with such functionality, interest in Russian combat aircraft may again turn out to be quite large.