Oh boy, look! Not an S-duct!
Shocking truth! But what is this, Mr. Expert?
What?
This, mr. Expert.
This is a prototype
1.42 never appeared in metal.
Well maybe because Stormshadow/SCALP have a massive range
Launched from stand off ranges. 500km Ukraine have lost most of their Su-24 from aviation/SAMs and ground based strikes.
You should read the UK intelligence report on the efficacy of R-37M and how it has been a massive threat.
As for all of Russias aircraft would be destroyed on the ground. Thats a sweeping statement.
theres actually quite a bit of research into this showing that no, they dont make stealth worse as long as you treat them the same as the other wing and control surfaces
theyre actually better than a lot of other designs
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In practice, this means that over three years of conflict, they have failed to completely eliminate two dozen outdated bombers. Under controlled conditions, with complete air superiority and no capable enemy fighters. Can you imagine the military leadership of any other country achieving such “success” and still retaining their positions?
This was stated by a very authoritative Z-expert, a former Su-34 navigator who fought in Syria. He noted that the only reason aviation doesn’t suffer losses at its home airfields is that they are attacked by slow and cheap drones, allowing the aircraft to scramble and relocate. In the event of an attack with modern cruise missiles, they wouldn’t have time to react. Moreover, the airfields within the range of the Storm Shadow missiles are no longer used by aviation.
Looks like a T-50, the sharp edges make it obvious, and its common for 5th generation jets to have exposed screws.
The Russian war doctrine focuses on anti air, they don’t often require much air superiority aircrafts because of their anti air systems like S400’s and the prototype S500’s.
They are also trying to operate in the most densely defended airspace in the world.
No other air force has come close to operating in an airspace as hostile. Russia have destroyed 100s of SAMs, Radars and what happens the US/ NATO give Ukraine more. Ukraine are guided by the best military intelligence network they have access to the full NATO satellites.
Your flippant remark they are antiquated bombers. Yes they are but they are also positioned right next to the Polish border and screened by SAMs. The risk of an escalation with Poland is not worth the risk of operating near the border. Su-24 are also routinely moved to make tracking the bombers and aircraft harder. Russia now use drones and Iskander missiles if they see a concentration of UA airframes.
You move your aircraft out of harms way, fuel is cheaper than air defence missiles and risk of losing an airframe. I don’t doubt Russia would lose some aircraft on the ground. As would NATO partners the Oreshnik is designed for that purpose a none nuclear first strike decapitation attack that has a low interception probability.
Russia will have knowledge of a US/NATO strike they have satellites and share with China. Sneak attacks on the scale of crippling an entire nation are not possible. F-35s have to take off, surface ships have to move into range, bombers B-2/B-21s have to take off, masses of tankers and support aircraft EAWACS. Cutting all diplomatic ties all of these are warnings. The same with Russia if they planned to deploy Orezhnik at NATO.
Final point if Russia was an easy mark, why haven’t NATO just gone and done it?
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My God, what nonsense. Deliveries of air defense systems began six months after the conflict started, and those were just a handful of systems. Six months! The US flattened Iraq in a month in '91. And in all that time, they couldn’t do anything about a miserable handful of 40-year-old Ukrainian planes.
Oh boy! That’s just an ordinary IRBM. Stop watching RT.
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But for some reason, at the beginning of the conflict, Russian troops were without satellite navigation and using Soviet-era paper maps.
Because Russia has nuclear weapons. Otherwise, they would have gotten their asses kicked.
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You need to watch and read more, sources…thankfully your leaders do.
No prior to the conflict Ukraine had 250 of S-300 systems. They had 10’000s of manpads delivered.
Russia destoyed the majority of these systems and Ukraine have been resupplied countless times.
Dismiss it all you want. Did Iraq get resuplied during the Gulf war? Were they given up to date battlefield management by Russia or China?
Yes it is but then it also isnt, it has no explosives just rods that kinetically do the damage.
Oh cool that GPS pic…from the start of the campaign…if you cant see Russia has improved as the conflict has gone on you are a moron. Every day GPS guided glide bombs slam Ukraine with impressive accuracy.
Russia being driven closer to China now have access to all of Chinas many satellites and systems.
Almost like having Nuclear weapons is necessary to protect you from the West.
an engine is not making up for virtually everything elses the russian aircraft lack. the sensor suit is vastly outdated, Much the same for their arsenal, the flight perfomance is fine but that isnt what makes a modern aircraft, and important to add whilst the russian engines put out good perfomance, theyre still very much inferior to western designs in both efficency and durability.
your point about b-2 and b-21 not being 5th gens is incredibly desegenuos as its just playing dumb arguing a irrelevant technicality. and su57 isnt in production.
Some context because you are clearly overinflating the threat the US/NATO faced in the Gulf.
Iraq had 60 SAM batteries these were pretty old outdated Soviet era SAMS. SA-2 systems, the SA-2 was not designed to hit fighter sized targets it was designed to hit bombers. Ukraine have S-300 which is designed to hit both has a much longer range and greater potential of kill.
Then technology of how these missiles can be guided destroying the Radar on the older systems doesn’t work on the newer systems they can DL from another Radar. Ukraine received tons of support before the conflict kicked off British aircraft were flying in daily dropping off crates of NLAWs/Javelin missiles, medical supplies all the things Ukraine would need.
Most of Iraqs missile threat was SHORAD…with ranges of around 7 miles. Strela,OSA and Roland. The parallels aren’t even close! NATO still lost a lot of aircraft. Russia also depends heavily on helicopters that’s where the MANPADS have really shone, low flying helis and CAS aircraft have been ambushed early in the conflict.
Yep Russia is corrupt, even the US! Or should the US tax payer pay 8000x the price of a soap dispenser for a C-17? Where there is a way to make money people will take that opportunity.
Northern group was never intended to reach Kyiv like the raid on Hostomel it was in place to divert/pin UA resources from the real objectives and the push in the South. (Refute it all you like Kyiv was never the target)
Securing Mauripol and Melitopol preventing the Crimea from being attacked from Ukraine.
Ukraines unlimited spawns…No that’s why they are press ganging men from the streets because as you put it they are running out of spawns
Which is more modern than the SA-2 systems that you and any other US fan boy jerks it to. What’s next the A-10 tank kill record.
No of course not, they messed up logistically. That doesn’t mean that they were meant to take Kyiv. Please remember and use what limited critical thought you have…Russia invaded Ukraine with 150k soldiers…That was never going to be enough to hold and defend Kyiv.
Oh gee I wonder why lets recruit 25 year olds and below and get them killed then this country like Russia with incredibly poor birth rates will in a few generations time cease to exist. Another reason why Ukraine does not see this war as an existential threat to their future (otherwise you would recruit them!)
Fregat batallion…you mean putting sailors to use, or should they just get to chill while there is a war going on?
I watch and read multiple accounts and somewhere in the middle of all the propaganda and lies you will find some semblance of what is actually happening
@Forum Moderators can the the topic be… sanitised?
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