ok, that's a shocking development and I say that because I thought and based on everything that I read that they still only had 12 if them and they were all prototypes or test bed aircraft.
Tactically I don't get it, they really don't need that type of aircraft for this mission because they're not really fighting a first nation air defense network, nor advanced fighters or fighter bombers.
I'm wondering if this is an attempt by the Russian's to live test the 57 against American Forces in the Area. Maybe they're going to test against American AWACs and other radar platforms.
This could also be an escalation as I believe some Russians were recently killed by US backed forces.
The SU -35 is a nice aircraft, but realistically I think its just a modernization of the SU-27 with thrust vectoring and advanced avionics and control, but it does represent the varsity as far as Russian Modern Military fighters are concerned and they are manned by their best trained pilots.
I just went back to a couple of sites and sources and the 57 isn't in the Russian active airforce, so this is definitely a dragging the flag in Syria
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