Latest Images Of Russia’s Checkmate Fighter Shows Us Just How Big It Really Is (Updated)
Russia has billed the Checkmate as a light fighter, but that isn’t really the case.
Russia has billed the Checkmate as a light fighter, but that isn’t really the case.
Moscow is deferring mass production of the fighter for a number of possible reasons, but it hasn’t canceled the program outright.
With the project effectively dead, the future of both India’s stealth fighter plans and Russia’s Su-57 are in limbo.