Russia’s New Stealth Bomber - PAK DA 

As usual, Russia will build 2-3 prototypes, fly them over the Red Square and then realize that it can’t be produce them 😳

So, just to get this straight: The B-21 is in the works since 2015 and still hasn't flown. It is being developed by the same folks, that already build the B-2, so it is fairly safe to assume, they know what they are doing and they also know a thing or two about stealth tech. And now, here are the Russians. Total stealth aircraft in service: 0. Total stealth aircraft flown: 0. Total stealth aircraft designed: 0. And they claim they design, build, fly, test, mass-produce and deliver a complete stealth bomber weapons system in the same 7 years, it took Northrop Grumman from the start of the B-21 Project to now, which arguably did not yield a mass-produced stealth bomber weapon system yet? No way Russia will pull this off. Same goes for stealth-defying radar. Since 25 years, there have been various rumors about radar systems capable of detecting stealth planes, but noone has fielded any system. Germany has an experimental system, which is rumored to be capable of detecting a F-35. But this project cooperates heavily with the US military and it is a safe bet, any results will be shared and scrutinized together, allowing improvments to the stealth capabilities. And do not forget: Germany is going to buy F-35s - which we clearly would not do, if there is proof of its stealth capabilities being useless. The US has managed to maintain its lead in stealth tech for several decades and I see no indication of that changing anytime soon. Remember, a weapons platform needs to be fielded, operated, maintained and used to full effect. Making a funny drawing on a napkin does not count.

I love how those winglets will talk to our radars!🤣

US: “It’s so stealthy you don’t see it coming” Russia: “So stealthy you don’t even know if it exists.”

Russia and China: "Stealth is over rated, stealth can easily be overcome" Also Russia and China: "Check out this new stealthy aircraft"

The PAK-DA will remain very much subsonic with an operational speed of 0 km/h

If they produce more than 2 of them I'll be shocked.

Like you said in the intro. IF it even exists. ! Let alone ready to be in service. It's all good having it on the drawing board. It's quite another to be ready and able to drop ordinance. Don't get me wrong , I'm a fan of Russian design and it's due respect. . It just seems an awful lot of their cutting edge technology. Is just theoretical .

Between the oligarchs and the state of their economy I figure the 1st flight will be around 2060.

Come on. Russia is losing their touch. Where is the hype words like hypersonic.

They'll make 2 and both will fail. They look good in their comic books

I agree with a lot of the comments on the idea of the stealth bomber, as well as the down falls of the SU-57 Felon, and as far as using 4th generation engine's, they try to get their engine's from China, as the Chinese engine's have far more better performance versus the Russian engines. It also goes to all of the loss of equipment in Ukraine, as Russia has lost one third of it's military in the war with Ukraine, not to mention it's command staff, so the idea of producing a large stealth bomber at this point is beyond incompetent...

Yeah right, just like the Armata

Russia has around a dozen Su-57 "stealth" jets. In a few years NATO will have over 4000. Good luck Russia.

When they finally master creating even a basic working Tank, or Air defence system, then the Russians can allow themselves the fantasy of Aircraft like this image.

I was right in the middle of taking a drink when he said TASS said it would exceed the B-21's capabilities, which caused me to laugh and shoot Pepsi out my nose..

I'll believe it when I see it. I have an incredibly difficult time thinking Russia has the money or the chips to build this.

With the sanctions, Russia is going to be lucky to design a new crackerjacks box..... let alone a new stealth bomber that is actually going to be stealthy and something besides just a good looking model or drawing on paper. Putin has insured that they will never be on the cutting edge in military equipment development.

The winglets and intake along the leading edge will likely betray it on radar. If detectable and targetable, it’s a moot point.

At best they are trying to catch up to the B 2 Spirit. The B 21 will be a upgrade so they will still be playing catch up.

Don't think the SR-71 was EVER thought of in terms of 'stealth'. No plane can operate at even 100,000 feet, let alone 164,000. And this channel of ALL channels, knows that. What Gives?

Loving these types of videos, and the comments that come with them!😁 Keep them coming dude!

It will be an amazing mega yacht! Meanwhile tank turrets are flying higher than it will ever fly

Is Russia planning to sell these to other countries? Can they afford to produce them if they don't? I'm guessing no and no, but I'm interested in hearing their thoughts.

20 years from now there will be one of these in a museum; a non-functional prototype. The Russians will have built one more, but it will probably fall apart during some test mission. Russia doesn't need these because Russia isn't an empire anymore. It needs to focus on it's economy to have a meaningful future.

I think its safe to say that nobody actually believes in Russian Defense manufacturing anymore. This will work about as well as Russian Airforce in Ukraine-Russia still cannot attain air dominance after 6 months against a vastly inferior opponent.

At 165K feet - this is beyond the range of SM6 anti air missiles

The rate at which the Russians are able to produce such high tech vaporware is simply astounding. I suspect the S-7000 Air Defense system should be up and running by Christmas.

I imagine that there are quick reacting fast weapons that can detect when the bomb bay doors open and hit it before they close. There might even be something that can disable a nuclear bomb on the way down.

reallity is that with enough radars you can still see every plane that exists today, include all stealth planes.

Looks a lot like the Lockeed/Rockwell program Concept for the Stealth Bomber program that lost to the Northrop Design for the B-2

Given Russia's "tech" seen in Ukraine I doubt even Andorra would now fear Russian Military Might.

Not only they are steaming full speed ahead with this project - they are in fact building 6 prototypes.

Well if they've produced scaled models, it's practically a done deal. Once you get past that hurdle, it's all smooth sailing and green pastures from there. I'm frightened. We better start getting counter measures ready right now. 🤣

One day all the roubles poured into this program will be found… as real estate in London and yachts in Monaco harbour.

I'd be surprised if its stealthy as B-2 lol no way will it be revolutionary as The B-21 Raider😆👍

Intriguing video as always. Thank you for your hard work putting these videos together!!! 🌴☀️🌴

Love the “White Swan”, such a beautiful aircraft

…but can it fly higher than a T-72 turret?

Really great and one of the reasons is you were sure to use the caveat...might be for propaganda purposes only. They did that in the Cold War to elicit a very costly response from the US. Thank you, you're doing great work. I'm sorry i'm not in a postion to donate or I would.

there’s a zero percent chance this will ever be a reality

PAK DA is similar to Russia’s stealthy subs. They rarely need to leave safe harbor and they don’t need to either.

This aircraft better be stealthy as hell

the b21 is just a smaller b-2 with less payload and range but probably more modern tech and stealth

Thats nice helps to have a funtioning military though. Belongs in the same category as their nuclear torpedos and cruise missiles

This plane is automatic, it's systematic, it's hydromatic, and the Russians hope no one remembers what that means

What kind of electronics will this have? Will it run on vacuum tubes? Last time I checked, semiconductors are a little hard to come by in Russia these days.

They can't afford it. We constantly keep them scratching for Rubles to keep up with us.

They can’t even maintain what they have. Having some drawings and even small mock-ups is one thing, getting something real is another. At this Point the US is working on 7th generation designs, with 6th gen almost at the production stage. They can’t even get significant numbers of Su-57s which are a low-5th generation.

Even if we grant Russia the achievement of world class stealth they will make how many of them? Their stealth fighter, the PAK FA or SU-57, has been around for decades and yet they have a total of, what, 15 of them. Even the US has had limited production runs of their leading edge AC but while Russia's limited run is maybe 20 the US is more like 200. And, when you look closer you find there stealth capabilities are an order of magnitude less impressive than the US and that's being kind to them -- whereas the US works hard for all-aspect stealth Russia focuses on frontal stealth and they are more than a factor of ten less capable even with such limited aspect stealth. Then, take into account that the huge source of foreign money they used to have is drying up and going away thanks to their stupid leader and his evil plans!

I know that underestimating your opponent is the kiss of death, but I genuinely do not fear Russia one little bit.

As it stands - I have more chances of building a working version of that craft with some 2x4’s and some FlexSeal than those sobs do… more worried about China in the years to come.

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Russians: “But wait, we have an even better bomber than the Pak Da, it’s called the Puke Duh and it’s even more stealthier and faster than any American bomber!”

As you very eloquently point out in your video about China's Xian H-20, the PROC has already left the Russian Federation in the turbulence of her technological jet wash. Meanwhile, the technological gap between the USA and Russia continues to widen in America's favor.

At 164,000' the atmosphere has only 0.1% the oxygen at sea level. What do those engines burn fuel with? It sounds like Russia is bragging about something non-existing again. 🤔

Wow , that's an impressive use of plywood, can't tell there a mig29 under thete

I highly doubt that a first generation unproven Russian attempt at a stealth bomber will come close to a second generation replacement to the only stealthiest and most proven stealth bombers succeeding design platform made by the wealthiest country with by far the most experience building stealth platforms that also have real world proven combat experience its just soo improbable that it’s as close to impossible as it comes

Russia falls apart before inventing some new strategic bomber

So it'll be like the pak 50. They'll make two prototypes over 20 years and then park em on a runway.

The craft depicted looks like it's ready for an IR shot in the rear

They can’t even afford more than 6 SU-57s which keep crashing

It looks like a knock off of NASA's blended wing body design demonstrator.

Building one is one thing. Maintenance and keeping it flying is another.

rofl, "We're super close to doing it, guys. We already built a model out of wood!"

The wing tips on there own will make this plane 100× more visible than the night hawk in daylight

🤔 Might've been better suited for the _Paper Skies_ channel.... lol As just because there was a physical model made, doesn't mean it's exists, *even on paper* for that matter! After all, we already know how far Russia likes to stretch the truthfulness of their words... 😏 We'd call something a rubberband, whereas Russia would call it an "advanced, synthetic, reusable, high-energy storage device" 😂

It was also be made of a “Super alloy” developed in secret by main developers 3yo

This aircraft is least 10 years out. If ever after this war maybe a pipe dream.

This Russian aircraft will always remain a fantasy.

Russia is trying to keep up with the US, but the US spends orders of magnitude more on defense and has done so for many, many years. And they certainly don't want another Concordski on their hands.

I think the Easter Bunny will be the pilot of this craft, since they both actually exist in the same realm.

allegedly the tu-160 keeps breaking a bunch of records

Maybe it’ll be as good as their reactive armor

164,000 feet ??? Really??? I read a book written by English Electric Lightning pilots, were one pilot mentioned conducting intercepts on an American bomber at 100,000 feet, but he said the bomber climbed to 120,000 feet and he could not reach it??? I know of no American bomber that can fly that high, at least officially. Is this pilot lying or could this be real, not to mention that it was the 1960 or 1970, i can't remember when.

As a player of SimplePlanes, I appreciate the use of player made models in this video.

Pak Da: so stealthy that nobody at Tupolev can see it

164,000 feet with 60,000 lbs of ordnance with a crew of 4. Dream on.

Going to be pretty hard to make that fly when all they can get are vacuum tubes for electronics

I’m sure it’s light weight filled with all those empty egg cartons. It’s definitely the best stealth out there. Not ever being flown or fully existing, no one will ever see it. Lol.

It will never get out of the planning stage! Russia can’t even beat a rag tag army in a conventional battle

This is a great comedy video keep them coming!🤣😂

When Ukraine shoots it down. Would there be a Garmin or TomTom GPS taped to the cockpit? And would we find out that the stealth paint came from Home Depot?

Is this in response to the intake duct designs being published??

overkill. redundant. waste of money and effort. 👑 love, david

Just by looking at the artist renderings, If the final version resembles them, it will have the radar cross section of a barn door.

It should be invisible to most radars? Does anyone really think the US would put out stealth aircraft without the ability to clearly see them. Yes, we know our stealth aircraft can't be seen by other nations radars. But our military is also smart enough to know if they can't see them, we might not be able to either. I would bet a paycheck we have advanced our radar capability to easily see past stealth.

Su-57s engine intakes show up like a massive pair of milkers on radar the second it, oh I dunno turns by more than a few degrees.

Looks almost exactly like a Romulan Bird of Prey from Star Trek... lol

Yeah ever since that Solarwinds hack by golly they seem to have all the cool shit right

They will order the plane on Ali Express.... Just like they order everything else

Cool! That only puts them what...50 years behind the US?

Thanks.

Honestly quite incredible

Whoever mixed this video messed up. Music is way too loud.

"if it even exists" I guess it's not "Russia's New Stealth Super Bomber" If something is in development then it's not a new product. What can be said is 6 B-21s are being built right now for that complete flight testing phase where the last issues are worked out. So, it's GOING to be a product. Flight testing starts next year. The US is too far down the path for the F-21 for something else to take its place. This product will probably start flight testing 2024 - 2025. However, Russia is going to have problems getting some parts so they have to change up the supply chain for part of this aircraft which probably means moving to more of the parts coming from China. I'm not saying whether that's a good or bad thing but it probably delays the aircraft. Russia usually relies on aircraft being sold to help fund their programs and because the US has a lot more experience in building both stealth and fly by wire I'd say it won't be so easy for them to sell this. On top of that having to switch around their supply chains and probably relying more on Chinese manufacturing does more to assist in their Chinese stealth bomber program. If anything I think the sales would go to either the B-21 or the Xian H20. It's going to be harder and harder for the Russian to fund their programs because of Chinese technology which is going to improve at a rate faster than the Russian's.

Here´s the thing. Consider what each stealth airplane project cost the US. Each single one was a gigantic project with enormous costs associated with it. And that is with the US and the participating companies having experience in the field of stealth airplanes. Now take a look at Russia. They´re heavily reliant on arms sales to even fund their projects. They have nearly no experience to draw from and their manufacturing capabilities are desolate. So how is a state, which has the average GDP of Texas, supposed to do what took the US an obscene amount of money with but a fraction of the associated development costs and no international partners? Because lets face it, if Russia was to try and produce such an airplane, they´d need partners and/or buyers. And a lot of them. So there´s no way this thing stays hidden for so long when potential buyers/partners would require a tech demonstration at least halfway along the way. Russia is not capable of pulling off an F22 kind of endeveour where a huge chunk of money gets blown on a project which then gets slapped with an export ban and all the cost needs to be paid in full by the taxpayer. So yeah, the only advanced weapons i believe the russians are capable of producing are any types of balistic missiles. Anything beyond that they know they lack the resources in personel, training and maintenance capability to effectively utilize on the battlefield. They wanna hide beyond this masquerade of a potential missile threat and some obscure high tech weapon systems which they wanna make the world believe they have stockpiled in some hidden facility.

Good thing about modern Russian military hardware is that it's only built for military parades and the like. When they fielded some of the advanced systems they actually have in service, they failed miserably in Ukraine.

This truly looks like Russia’s version of Hollywood as a digital copy

As stated. The Russian design philosophy is multi-tiered. Which in my opinion produces a more well rounded aircraft system.