{"id":63100,"date":"2024-06-10T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-ukraine-destruction-russia-su-57-means-drones-balance-air-power\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:34:23","slug":"what-ukraine-destroying-russias-su-57-means-for-drones-in-warfare-the-balance-of-air-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=63100","title":{"rendered":"What Ukraine Destroying Russia&#8217;s Su-57 Means For Drones In Warfare &amp; The Balance Of Air Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Yesterday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukrainian<\/a> armed forces dropped a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DefenceU\/status\/1799723980615471273\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >bombshell<\/a> (no pun intended) &#8211; they had <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukraine-reportedly-destroys-russian-su-57-5th-generation-stealth-fighter\/\">damaged (likely destroyed) a prized 5th-generation Su-57 fighter jet on the ground<\/a>. The jet has been hit by the explosions of at least two drone strikes. The Russian Su-57 has become the latest high-profile fatality from Ukraine&#8217;s burgeoning drone capabilities and is likely the first 5th-gen fighter to be destroyed in combat (not counting the F-117 as 5th-gen). Later that day, Ukraine suggested they may have hit a second Su-57 in the same strike but need more confirmation. So, what does this mean for the future of airpower?    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The balance of air power may be impacted as cheap drones, a fraction of 1% of the cost of a fighter jet, destroy 5th-gen fighter jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,595,4160,309,8674,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-drones","category-russia","category-sukhoi-su-57","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63101,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63100\/revisions\/63101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}