I am sure the "real" Su57 has the RCS of an electron and the range for a round trip to Mars. Till then, us armchair generals can only use the data available-- especially compared to its competition.
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I am sure the "real" Su57 has the RCS of an electron and the range for a round trip to Mars. Till then, us armchair generals can only use the data available-- especially compared to its competition.
Oh,
since “stealth”≠ “Protection from lucky strikes”, then I'd rather choose “lucky” rather than 'stealth.' Might as well prepare more greenbacks for the Americans and see when they'll revive the F-117 — that 'highly stealthy' but “unlucky” advanced weapon which entered service in 1983 and was retired in 2008, setting the record for the shortest service life of Since the F-86 entered service any jet-powered aircraft since the dawn of aviation. After all, the Americans clearly don't understand as well as Your Excellency folks what kind of weapons are truly trustworthy. Mmhmm.
Because the Americans would rather hold their noses and use the granddaddy B-52 — which got shot down nine times in a single night over Vietnam — than continue using 'stealth' fighters. Isn't that just bizarre?
It just occurred to me — weren't the Americans discussing restarting the F-22 production line a couple of years ago to sell to the Japanese for their F-3 future fighter program? Too bad the Japanese didn't take their American daddy up on the offer. Maybe this is an opportunity — more suitable than buy the Su-57s..
Oops — struck a nerve at the Pentagon again. My bad.
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Lower the DeepSeek "temperature" setting bud - that should help it hallucinate less.
We are going off topic.
And F117 still had a longer career than Yang Wei, the designer of your stealth 5th gen, recently purged to XinJiang likely with a missing kidney.
We are going off topic.
And F117 still had a longer career than Yang Wei, the designer of your stealth 5th gen, recently purged to XinJiang likely with a missing kidney.
My friend, AI doesn't understand nuance. F-117s are unnecessary to take out sand people, which is what we have been up to since we broke USSR.
Rest assured, when we meet at the South Taiwan Sea, you will see what we have been up to
Please speak english……My friend, AI doesn't understand nuance. F-117s are unnecessary to take out sand people, which is what we have been up to since we broke USSR.
Rest assured, when we meet at the South Taiwan Sea, you will see what we have been up to
- And i said that it is like Tom & Jerry, trial & error, bcoz it is not zenith of technological evolution.
- Low hit rate doesn't mean zero hit rate.
- Like ABM system tracks BMs, similarly incoming AAMs have to be tracked, if pilots desire survival.
- Something has to be done to escape from or disorient missiles.
- All types of options from tri-services are tried in every war.
- Different group of people globally have made their products as per their diversified thinking & it'll continue like that. It depends on geography, geopolitics, economics, management & coordination, etc.
- We might see different size jets, different speed jets, many types & sizes of drones, UCAVs, etc.
- Irrespective or source & target location/position & guided weapon type, all it needs is a good secured continious network to pass accurate target data for passive seeker & approximate data for active seeker.
Aircraft were first used in combat for reconnaissance.
Later, building on reconnaissance, someone casually tossed a few grenades, and that eventually evolved into the bomber.
The earliest fighters, in turn, emerged precisely to suppress the two aforementioned functions of enemy aircraft: reconnaissance and bombing.
Today, the reconnaissance role of combat aircraft has essentially been zeroed out. With the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war... tactical bombing (including anti-armor missions by attack helicopters) has been replaced by FPV drones. Long-range bombing is gradually being supplanted by "cheap surface-to-surface missiles"—namely, the Geranium-136 drone. The sole remaining ground-attack function persists in using cheap iron bombs fitted with glide kits to strike concrete underground targets that drones and heavy artillery struggle to breach.
...The only temptation this approach offers is the price advantage iron bombs hold over specialized bunker-buster missiles.
The moment specialized ground-attack missiles demonstrate a cost advantage over the "airfield–bomber–glide bomb" system,
aviation will be kicked out of the ground-attack mission set entirely.
And with that, the raison d'être of air superiority fighters will be extinguished along with it...
No boars left—no need for hunting dogs anymore.