There’s a cumulative effect involved.

All that SR-71 pilot would need to do is change his heading by a few degrees, and it’d ruin that Viggen pilot’s hopes of intercept.

Seeing as how they’ve been able to examine F-22s and F-35s up close for comparison purposes no doubt. I would never accuse the Russians of boasting.:cool:

Less weight + cost = more = better.

At least in 1 way. You’ll never know just how good any of the RAM is, so leave it alone. I just assume that both a US and Russian scientist aren’t idiots. Hard for you, I know.

I don’t assume Russian scientists are idiots, but that doesn’t mean that they necessarily have the same technical know how in every field. You’re also assuming that the US tech is frozen, and hasn’t improved over time either.
Neither of us know how good either RAM variant is, but you’re the one that stated superiority, when you can’t even provide the comparisons that I asked for, and then use “I assume Russian scientists aren’t idiots” as proof.

Metric being WEIGHT and COST.

Source = some Russian link that I did not post.

It was on this forum, potentially a saga thread though. Don’t get your panties in a bunch over it.

I believe the gist of it was USA RAM = metallic // Russia RAM = carbon plastic.

Ah that explains it. Now how much does US RAM cost per cubic meter vs. Russian RAM, and how much does an equal amount of each weigh? Now the real tough question, in terms of superiority- how well does each variant work at attenuating radar signals?

What metric are you using to judge the superiority? Sources?

The S-3’s sensor suite worked well against the extremely noisy Soviet subs of the 1970s. But upgrades in sensor capability did not keep up with the newer quiet generations of subs. When the S-3s were retired, their sub-hunting ability was useless. Their last useful role was as tanker. Otherwise, they occupied valuble space on the flight deck. Let the old dog fade into the history books where it belongs.

They could still be valuable as ELINT birds, over the horizon targeting for anti-surface warfare, among some of the other tasks mentioned.