It’s a potent missile but PAC 3 is designed to shoot down missiles, but honestly we do not know Ukraine reported it shot down and stated PAC 3 missile. USA echoed that because Hypersonics are seen as the new wonder weapon which they are to an extent. Issue with Kinzhal is it cannot manoeuvre, which makes it path predictable. The launch vehicle also doesn’t help being as they will have known when the 31 took off it had that payload they would be prepared for it.
Did the missile get intercepted or did it malfunction we will never know.
They have produced them already, the cost per unit is largely irrelevant when they have been manufactured combat tested and in the process of being upgraded.
Buddy the USAF operate the F-22, what’s to debate here?
Yes Boeing stupidly destroyed the jigs and tooling so to restart the process would cost too much and now the F-22 is reserved for special tasks and the F-35 supports it. It’s why the US built the F-15EX using a 5th gen for mundane air policing is a massive waste.
They were sub-par because AH-60 and others were the same BR, then were only 0.3 higher.
The new SPAA came in at 12.0 which made them flat out unplayable outside specific maps.
Rooivalk was and still is 11.7 while being better than both.
So while there’s a superior helicopter 0.3 below them, AH-1Z and Ka-52 are usable again.
AH-1Z can even be part of a stacked 12.0 lineup while Ka-52 is stuck with T-80Us and T-72B3.
Not when I factor in my spend for that year it doesn’t, F-22 can and will be shot down in a peer 2 peer combat there is always the potential for failures it would be naïve to believe otherwise. It’s what the airframe achieves before that point.
Because we are talking about the capability differences between the West and Russia
Do we know what export cost the Su-57 is offered at?
Oh yes F-35 is expensive and while not a dedicated air superiority aircraft it has the means to do it all.
However as you pointed out it is better served remaining near invisible to Radar and DL Aim120D/Aim260 shots from F-15EX and F-22.
so you need atleast 2 planes to operate effectively instead of a single F-35
increasing the cost even further, because now you need to planes to do the job of what a single plane has done, which isnt great for fuel consumption either
and think of all the CO2 that yould be saved by only having a single jet for the job /s
The 3BM60 is absolutely not a lol pen cannon, it sits quite comfortably in the middle of top tier roughly.
On one tank in the BVM
The T72’s aka T90M has the slowest top tier reload.
T80 BVM is a fixed 6.5 which is slower than all my leopards, leclercs, Challangers, merkavas, Abrams as well as most the other MBTs such as ariete and what not.
They don’t if they get penned they die almost every time due to ammo or fuel explosion or crew wipe.
What russian Tank features a coaxial HMG? Bar the damn T10M or OBJ 279 which aren’t at all what are spoken about?
Last i checked the T90M has a 7.62 MM coax
1 BVM at top tier which is an average tank, T80U is pretty poor with 3bm46 though the mobility is nice.
The T90M is gash, theres literally two top tier MBT’s for Russia, in which one is a slow heavy T72.
Fun fact HE can also nuke T90M from teh roof
