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Originally Posted by Bigtime
True, but the Russian aircraft is much closer to an actual operational fighter than the X-29 ever was.
I remember playing with my little Micro-Machines X-29.
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The X-29 was never intended to be a tactical fighter and the SU-47 never will be either. Both were designed as experimental "test" platforms. The U.S. long ago retired the 29 however. The SU-47, like nearly every other indigenous Russian aircraft owes it's basic design and execution to an existing American design.