That issue is much worse for the Su-35, the stealth on the F-35 lets it slip through and get closer before it launches its missiles for better pk
F-35’s main boon is the sensor package able to ‘talk’ to lots of assets. The gathering of data from the F-35 or from another platform can go both ways via DL.
That the F-35 can do so while being harder to nail down in the process is an additional layer.
Theories, theories. Well just wait until US grows some balls to deal with the mess in Iran and then how good F-35 is
Adir (F-35I)s have already been used since last year. By all accounts they did quite well.
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By totally unbiased accounts I presume?
Last year you had strike packages of IDF aircraft operating deep over Iranian airspace - you don’t do something like that because the Iranians just feel charitable…
Public info would suggest that they were used as intended - to augment larger numbers of F-15/F-16 strike aircraft. Either in terms of targeting or getting into the IADS and making certain command and control functions ‘stop working’.
Like when F-35 beat modern Russian made air defense in 2019?
Or when they defeated pretty much all of Iran’s longer ranges SAM’s this year?
Or you do because someone doesn’t want to turn it into a full scale war.
If you talking about a F35 strike a yak130. That’s not a good exemple
The situation described by the person originally is quite harsh on both aircraft and I don’t think either will be able to make it out alive, with no additional help from outside ground or air radars. So I can’t really say which is better for this poorly planned mission except the Su-35 can run away better and the F-35 gets detected way later
You have a proof that said air defence was placed where F-35s did a strike?
We’re dancing on the head of a pin now. However which would you rather?
Would you rather have a Ferrari and try to outrun a Mach 3 missile?
Or a Ford Fiesta that is only visible from certain angles and at closer distances to the crew of Mach 3 missile launcher? Oh, and you probably also have a better understanding of where it is to begin with.
Modern*
They were late 90s and early 2000. Not so modern I recall
They were all destroyed by inside job.
If this is true - sad, but expected. Reminds me of Venezuela
News reports, and looking at aircraft losses clearly shows SEAD and DEAD happened. There might be some video out there but you can check yourself
Oops looks like original poster was talking about an air duel between the two planes and I have misread. I thought it was a strike mission, of course I’d pick the F-35 because it’s ecm is greater than the Su-35’s
Iranian finding truck with Hebrew label missile tells me its true
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lol crazy cope
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The lazy one is that you don’t even have something to prove your view of things