{"id":15798405,"date":"2026-08-24T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/su-57d-two-seat-combat-ai-drone-command-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:36:15","slug":"su-57d-two-seat-combat-ai-drone-command-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/su-57d-two-seat-combat-ai-drone-command-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says Its Two-Seat Su-57 Will Fly Combat AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>On 14 August 2026 the Russian state news agency TASS reported that the two-seat Su-57D will be used to test combat artificial intelligence under development at the Sukhoi Design Bureau. The source was Mikhail Strelets, the bureau&rsquo;s director, speaking on the Zvezda television programme <em>Military Acceptance<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That sentence deserves to be read carefully, because it contains a claim, a claimant, and a broadcaster, and all three belong to the same state.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>What is genuinely verifiable is narrower, and still interesting: Russia has built a two-seat stealth fighter, flown it, and says its second cockpit exists to command drones.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;text-align:left\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Aircraft<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Su-57D, two-seat derivative of the Su-57 (NATO: Felon)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Maiden flight<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">19 May 2026, Komsomolsk-on-Amur (KnAAZ); approx. 40 minutes<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Pilot<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Sergei Bogdan, Sukhoi chief test pilot<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Airframe<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">A converted early T-50 prototype<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Stated roles<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Combat training, airborne strike coordination, control of unmanned combat aircraft<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Claimed AI role<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Testbed for combat AI under development at Sukhoi (Russian state media claim)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Intended to control<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">S-70 Okhotnik-B heavy UCAV, and &ldquo;swarm or group systems&rdquo;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Patent filed<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">November 2023, by United Aircraft Corporation<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Su-57 fleet<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Estimated 30&ndash;40 airframes including prototypes; 2019 contract nominally covers 76 by 2027<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Engines<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Still AL-41F1; the second-stage Izdeliye 30 remains in development<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The One Quote That Is On the Record<\/h2>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The presence of a second operator&rsquo;s cockpit allows us to implement one of the key sixth-generation technologies &mdash; namely, controlling unmanned aerial vehicles as an airborne command post.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Mikhail Strelets<\/strong> &mdash; Director, Sukhoi Design Bureau, quoted by TASS (Russian state media)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Everything else attributed to Strelets in the coverage &mdash; the combat AI, the swarms, the Okhotnik &mdash; was reported by TASS in paraphrase, not in quotation marks. No architecture, no autonomy level, no timeline and no decision authority has been disclosed. Army Recognition, which covered the story at length, was blunt that this should be viewed as a development objective rather than a demonstrated capability.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A note on names, because a wrong one is circulating widely: TASS says <strong>Mikhail<\/strong> Strelets. A viral social media post rendered it &ldquo;Sergey&rdquo; Strelets, and several aggregators copied the error. Sergei Bogdan is the test pilot, not the bureau director.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Actually Flew<\/h2><p>The Su-57D made its first flight on 19 May 2026 from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur plant, after taxi trials on 16 May. The flight lasted around 40 minutes with Sergei Bogdan at the controls. The airframe is a converted early T-50 prototype, though sources disagree on which one: some point to T-50-4, others to an airframe damaged in a 2014 engine fire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The layout is a tandem two-seat cockpit under an elongated canopy, the rear seat raised above the front, on an otherwise standard Su-57 airframe. United Aircraft Corporation registered a patent covering exactly this concept &mdash; a twin-seat Su-57 optimised for UAV coordination and airborne command &mdash; in November 2023. Under thirty months from patent to first flight is quick by any standard.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=796604902  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:jc--.cf1e\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/su-57d-two-seat-alongside-single-seat-su-57-felon.jpg\" alt=\"Sukhoi Su-57 Felon in digital splinter camouflage on the ramp\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Su-57 in digital-splinter camouflage on the ramp. No independently verified photograph of the two-seat Su-57D has been released to Western media; the imagery in circulation originates with Russian corporate and social channels. (United Aircraft Corporation via Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov has given the aircraft three jobs: combat training, coordinating airborne strikes, and commanding unmanned combat aircraft. The third is the one everybody cares about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Problem With the Plan<\/h2><p>Russia is not wrong about the concept. China flies the two-seat J-20S for the same reason. The United States is pursuing the same end through Collaborative Combat Aircraft rather than a second crew member. Putting a dedicated operator in the back of a stealth fighter to run a drone formation is a serious idea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zxBsBi5OVBM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>The problem is everything underneath it. The Su-57 fleet is small &mdash; estimates cluster around 30 to 40 airframes including prototypes, against a 2019 contract for 76 by 2027 that essentially nobody believes will be met. The aircraft still flies on the interim AL-41F1 engine; the definitive Izdeliye 30 has been in development for years. The S-70 Okhotnik it is meant to command has been in joint testing with Su-57 prototypes since 2019 without entering series service.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Adapting an existing airframe rather than designing a clean-sheet sixth-generation fighter is a rational response to sanctions and industrial limits. It is also an admission of them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Russia has flown the aeroplane. Whether it can build the artificial intelligence, the drones, the engines and the fleet to put behind it is a different question, and one that a television appearance does not answer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: TASS, 14 August 2026; Army Recognition, 18 August, 28 May and 21 May 2026; Militarnyi, 15 August 2026. Claims regarding combat AI capability originate with Russian state media and have not been independently verified.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/russia-su-57-crash-training-flight-moscow-july-2026\/\">Russia Loses a Su-57 Near Moscow<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/russia-su-75-checkmate-prototype-construction-2026\/\">Russia Begins Building the Su-75 Checkmate Prototype<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/china-j-20-f-22-drone-wingman-simulation-95-percent\/\">China Simulated the J-20 With Drone Wingmen. 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