Nice.
I saw some new nuke carriers, could be interesting to play again.
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Think about the money gaijin
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J-10A will be… interesting .
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Ron.
I was talking about the Datamined Nuke J-10.
i thought we still talked about senrai maiden aircraft lol
These liveries are paramount and very much related to the subject of flanker thread
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Just wanna share new R77m footage.
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Sounds very much Italian
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looks like Su-35 squadrons are being rearmed with R-77Ms more and more.
Hopefully the Su30sm2 are next 🙏
If SM2 can use it - Baltic fleet is probably the first in the waiting line for those, it’s the most “active” border of Russia nowadays
The Eurofighters and F-35s have one real advantage and that is geography, the fact that they can be deployed in many different countries at the same time behind a layered defense system. F-35s going 1 v1 in a terrain they are not backed up by satelites and many different radar stations will achieve inferrior results than SU 35s. Way less manuverable slower turn rate and lower ability to evade on coming missiles. The cockpit wont play such a big role as you are stating, Su 35 has the ability to carry more powerful radar than F-35 not to mention the fact that it is twin engine and more survivable to near miss missile explosions.
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…meanwhile on planet Earth…
An aircraft WITH Stealth has an advantage in pretty much all domains compared to one WITHOUT Stealth. This is a simple matter of physics - you have to generate more radar energy to get a return from a smaller RCS.
Generating more radar energy means that everyone knows where you are. So well done - you’ve announced to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere that you are HERE! Now your opponents can choose to either go around you or give you an AMRAAM surprise that has been data-linked over the horizon by that rather ‘slow’ F-35 that has been skirting on the edges of your detection ranges.
Non-radar detection works both ways - but again, the 5th Gen will usually have better sensors available to it than a 4th gen or 4.5th gen. Historically and today - he who sees his target first usually wins. The SU-35 has close to zero stealth / low observable / thermal damping measures. Painting it grey doesn’t count.
It is logic such as yours that explains why the VKS is unable to maintain any semblance of air superiority after five years… ‘but our jets are faster and can carry more bombs? Why we no win?’
Modern air combat is NOT about being able to pull air-show moves.
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why would russia do that when its not even the doctrine that they subscribe to
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…they do in a manner of speaking - just not calling it that.
Probably a better term would be Aerial Denial and making a permissive environment for frontal aviation. But that’s a mouthful.
they dont
what the US did in the middle east was is air superiority
which is sending quite alot of aircraft and let them deal with any aireal thread
russia relies more on its air defences for aireal threads, that is why they have so many mobile air defenes
You show no concept of understanding geography and the fact that all neighbouring countries are providing 24/7 radar assistance to that one country not to mention the fact that there are countries in the rear providing satelite imagery and AWACS aircarft, infact to this day there is no single aircarft of the “VKS” being downed by another aircarft, all due to loses are due to ambushes and data provided by 3rd 4th and 5th parties. In an engagement between 1 f-35 and 1 Su 35 ilumination wont matter since others will not be involved. The radar detection capabilities of Su35 is greater than the F-35, its stealth characteristics are as good as Kevin Spacey’s analysis of the F-35.
It’s easier to compare Russia to US and then say that they failed because they didn’t do it as US did
Air Superiority =/= Air Supremacy
Soviet/Russian doctrine views Frontal Aviation almost like flying artillery. In order to make use of it (particularly things such as helicopters, platforms such as Su-34s) they aim for a localised dominance.
Why else do you think they even bothered with types such as the Fulcrum and Flanker?