“Post-stall maneuvering” gives a plane excellent maneuverability—but the equipment needed to boost it comes with tradeoffs, as all advanced aircraft features do.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. A Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighter aircraft flies ...

Washington’s analysts constantly judge the Su-57 through an F-22 or F-35 lens. Russia doesn’t fight that way. Their defense strategy—as seen in Ukraine thus far—is fundamentally one of attrition: ...