I have check again on severals sites, blogs in genral 6 AAMs in the weapons bay sometimes 4 we need wait the bird is new not in service before 2 years
Weapons bays do 4.4 to 5.1 m long i think 4.6 and 0.9 or 1 m wide.
2 ejections lauchers for 300 or 700 kg weapons
But sure it is a king for the short game VWR the F-22 had an advantage better the best SC to mach 1.75 Su-57 estimated to 1.6.
Yes almost all non-official online "sources" claim Su-57 can store 6 total MRAAMs in it's main bays and that it has two side bays. These claims are dubious. Someone show me how it can store that much and it has side bays. Until then, I am convinced it doesn't. These sources are mostly fanboys. T-50 probably has the shallowest bays because it has a very thin fuselage where the bays are at and they didn't use the LM superstructure fuselage that J-20 and J-31 also followed. Some prideful idiots will say they copied it. Fine. But copying a better design is miles better than going with a stupid original design. Perhaps the Su-57 designers were cash strapped and heavily modified a flanker. Or perhaps they have access to superior next gen electronics that will negate the advantage of low RCS and it'll allow Su-57 to dominate WVR and fight on almost an even footing BVR, ceteris paribus.
Has IAF been allowed to examine the plane, site in it, pilot it around? Surely at this stage of the project (near completion of initial batches without final engines), such an important partner who has contributed at least $6 billion USD should be allowed to closely examine it even if the Russians aren't willing to give away the technology which is actually something the Indians are entitled to with that kind of spending. They could have bought squadrons of F-35s for that kind of money. It's too much loss to cut at this point for the Indians so they will definitely induct this plane but will threaten Russia for the technology. They will bluff and refuse to buy even one Su-57 (giving Russia potential embarrassment in that not even the closest only partner will buy this fighter) unless Russia gives up the technology. If Russia calls the bluff, India will act according to the capability of this fighter. It will be very interesting to see how it performs against Indian Rafales and Su-30mkis when they eventually get it years down the road.
Good thing China went with their own projects when it was invited to this. All those Russian and Ukrainian engineers that China managed to poach and attract decades ago have surely contributed to the incredible speed of development. If Korea abandoning internal bays is an indicator of technical difficulty and the state of the Russian fighter is as disappointing as I'm sure many of us here feel about it, it just goes to show the extreme challenges developing a fifth gen fighter poses. The confidence of China refusing to cooperate on this could have been due to Indian involvement or possessing valuable information on how LM went about with their designs. They could have shared this with Russia and built something awesome as well but was confident in being able to do it themselves. The many other partnered projects with Russia only makes this point more likely. Those areas Chinese SOEs consider themselves weak in so they cooperate. If they didn't feel confident about the selected 5th gen designs, they definitely would have partnered up with or without LM hacked data.
