There’s a lot of tap dancing here, rather than intellectual honesty. The fact of the matter is that no single country is necessarily the best at everything.

Better on the Test Bed than in the Air…Personally Being a Navy Man I Think the GE/Rolls F136 is the Better Power Plant and should be considered by the USN, RN and RAAF for the F-35C we Need the Added Thrust.

I’ve yet to see a comparison demonstrating the F-136 to have more thrust, and I’d posit that a more reliable engine is a higher priority, for a single engine aircraft.

Indeed. They’re just mitigating risks, and getting the planes at cheaper prices.

The article is more or less good because it has a balanced view, the sources quoted are also from Western sources, the question is not that Israel did not lose aircraft because they did, the question was Syria from day one, on June 6th 1982, acknowledged to have lost 16 aircraft in that day alone, this has given ammunition to the Israeli claim that in air to air combat syria lost 86 aircraft and Israel 0 fighters, however the Israeli are not really showing too much evidence of that score, it is more the self admission by Syria of having lost aircraft in air to air combat.
Israel did lose aicraft and it was proven even in Western Media outlets, but here is where they are different, Israel never acknowledged to have lost aircraft in air combat.
Syria in the other hand said on 6 June 1982 Israel lost 19 aircraft.
As group combat so far the Bekka valley was a huge battle because it was reported that around 150 aircraft were involved.

So far i can say to you Israel never has showed proof of a MiG-25 killed as Syria never has never shown F-16s and F-15s, but as far as F-4, MiG-23, MiG-21, A-4, Su-22, Kfir, Gazzelle helicopter, AH-1 Cobra, Hueys there is evidence at least a few were shot down by either side.
The MiG-25 only proof is Russian sources, the F-15 and F-16 are mostly claims.

Again, it depends on how you weight the credibility of the sources(i.e. not all sources have the same level of credibility).

It won`t take then a decade in fact Russia does not need Israel for developing an UAV, they have enough technology to develop one by their own, but Russian manufacturers did not have the product the Russian government demanded.

That’s a very polite way of spinning it. The fact that the Russian military wasn’t satisfied with domestic products pretty much says it all.

Isn´t that a myth , surley PVO interceptors where guided by GCI just like ADC interceptors but not so much the same for VVS.

Not at all. Russian/Warsaw Pact pilots were very much dependant on centralized command and control. Western philosophy was much different, both in the air and on the ground, where decisions/tactics could be made much more dynamically and independantly. Also when you factor in that most western pilots got as many flight hours per month, as their eastern counterparts got per year, there’s no contest.

The western pilots completely outclassed their Soviet/Warsaw Pact pilot brethren, who were reliant on GCI. The skill, tactics, and situational awareness advantages would’ve gone a long way to mitigate the quantity vs. quality.

They have overlapping functions, but there are differences. Not all MAWS are IR/UV based, so they wouldn’t necessarily detect the launch, and DAS does more than either MAWS or MLD by themselves. It combines their functions, with FLIR like imagery, IFF, etc…with spherical coverage(which not all systems provide, to the same extent).