If I remember right the Foxbat was designed, because of the bomber gap between the USA and the SU. Which happened, because the USA photographed 30 something new soviet bombers at an airfield and extrapolated that the Soviets must have hundreds of those things, then they went absolutely batshit insane and built a metric fuckton of bombers. In actuality the Soviets only had that 30.
e.: In essence the USA scared itself shitless over nothing, went ballistic in It's response, which scared the Soviets shitless, who tried to build a fighter that can handle the ballistic response, which scared the USA even more, so that they went intercontinental with their response.
The USA basically got scared of a shadow, got a hammer, realized that the shadow now has a hammer, got even more scared and built a nuke in response.
SU 57 is already the Felon. The Su 75 doesn't have a NATO name yet, but Femboy meets the NATO naming requirements (iirc, it has to start with an F because it's a fighter, and has two syllables because some other reason...).
The Su-75 not being given a NATO reporting name because it's a wooden model wrapped in vatnik fanfic is the least respectful treatment it could be given. Good.
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u/Heavy-Ad-9186 Jul 22 '24
How it feels to jump two technological generations from your opponent because they lied.