How effective is the OLS-27 system on the Su-27 anyway? At what range could it detect an F-16 head on?

This has to have come from a Pakistani fan…or just a piece meant for certain Indian forums by a Chinese guy who got beaten up by the mods & member in Indian forum. As far as I seen, Chinese hardly care about Indian military as much as Indian care about Pakistani military. Its always the smaller guy bothering about the bigger & stronger ones which we see in online forums.
In Pakistani forums – its paranoid, jealously, bad mouthing & competing with India.
In Indian forums – its paranoid, jealousy, bad mouthing & competing with China

That MiG-29 should in fact be a Japanese F-2, should it not?

Between Su-27 and F-15 the settling factor would have been ICBMs.
Guess this whole thread is moot.

What have ICBMs got to do with it – they were irrelevant when F-15s were shooting down MiG-29s in 1999 – or even when MiG-21s were shooting down F-105s in 1968?:confused:

What gizmos does Su-35 lack?

How many Su-35s are in service now?

Allies have more access to resources for sustain long war.

Err, yeah, that was my point…

Comparing 2 platforms and saying which fighter can shoot down the other is pointless in the grand scheme of things. A better question is how well each jet tailor’s to each nation’s “system” or doctrine. Jet A maybe be faster, lighter, higher flying, cheaper, have better avionics and radar suites, and cheaper than Jet B. But if Jet B’s force has a better force structure and is better at filling its respective role, then the ratio will always be in favor of jet B. It’s very rare to have 2 jets face off head to head.

All that is true, so I wonder why we spend so much time comparing aircraft A with aircraft B on this forum when there are so many other factors to take into account?

If you talk about the Su-27SM upgrade, then yes i agree.
The SM upgrade is inferior to the Latest F-15 Golden Eagles upgrade with the v3 AESA and overall SA.

It does not mean this can be improved. And with the Su-30SM, Su-27SM3, Su-35S and Su-34, i would say the gap on these issues have closed.

In which case, let’s not compare fighter planes, let’s talk about who has the most money. After all, isn’t that how the allies defeated the axis powers in 1945.

Restart a production line with 20 year old technology? Ugh!

If USAF would allow a technology refresh, without the typical bureaucratic baggage that increases cost and schedule, I would agree.

They still produce F-15s and F-16s in America – how old are they?

Attitude. A bad one at that! 🙂

If you were one of my buddies and we’d a few pints in us, we’d now be embroiled in:
“your attitude stinks”
“NO, YOUR attitude stinks”
“man u are sh!t”
“who are ross county”
“yer a customer”
“the spl is sh!t”
etc etc etc

:D:D

Yeah, well, I hate it when arguments on forum threads just seem to go back and forth.
I like the idea of a few pints though…:D;)