Sanem,

OK…which of the hundreds of contacts on that AIS capture do you put your optical sensor on first?. How about the hundreds more not shown there as they werent using AIS?. How close does your stealthy platform need to be to get the EO resolution to determine wolf/sheep?.

Given a ship all alone on the water and an aerial/orbital sensor that has already been told where to look then yes, you are quite right, but operationally such a contrived situation is unthinkable.

Just thinking aloud, but in such a constricted area (the Persian Gulf) a mix of high tech (the combat jets) and simplicity might just do the trick. Several dozen chaps in small phishing boats equiped with a commercial grade radio and binoculars would (probably) be efective in IDing target´s.

Cheers

And what was the judgment of the look..?

Dont have idea. The Greek Air Force Officials who looked at it dont confide to Portuguese civilians. 😮

F 22 is far from impervious to S 300 variants wich were in Soviet service since the late 70’s

Can you point one single source that backs that statement of yours?
Because i can provide one made by an aerospace journo that states that an AN/APG-79 cant detect a Raptor at visual range…

Or were they hoping to only encounter Sa 2? If war came in Europe F22 whould not have lasted very long maybe 1-2 days before the massive numerical advantage in Soviet Airforce numbers whould overwhelmed US/Nato and huge numbers superiority of Soviet tactical aviation of Su24,Mig 27,Su 22 and maybe if need Strategic aviation Tu 22M,Tu 160,Tu 95 whould of attacked and destroyed the airfields from which F22 operated and most of the F22 as well.

In 2005 when the Raptor entered IOC there was no Soviet Union and you dont want to compare NATO with the absolutely disastrous state that the Russian Air Force was in.

Given the F22 terrible servicibilty record of 100 maintenance hour for every flight hour,most whould of been destryoed on the ground.;)

By comparison to the marvelous servicibility record of the Mig-31?

Su 35,Su 34 and Su 30 are not stealth but very far from obsolete.

Absolutely true

Su 35 is more advanced and capable than the Typhoon and Rafale

More “advanced”?! In what way? And more capable? In what way?
Be carefull on claims, while the SU-35 is a fantastic aircraft, the two eurocanards are entirely competitive, are flying in active sqn´s, have combat missions under their belt and last time i´ve checked the SU-35 had not entered sqn service, so claiming any kind of superiority might be a bit off the mark…

, F22 is stealth design but because of its many problems in still not combat dependable with more than half being not combat ready

Where did you got the idea that “more than half” of the Raptor fleet was not “cpmbat ready”?
Last time i´ve checked there are around fifty airframes that are not “combat coded” and are targeted for training and QRA over mainland USA, but they are more than capable to be used in anger. And by the way, the USAF fields 18X more Raptors than the VVS fields SU-35´s.

and F22 air to ground capability is negligible.

Correct

Su 34 is the most advanced interdiction tactical strike fighter bomber in the world currently.

The South Koreans, the Singaporeans and even the French might disagree, with some very good reasons.

Su 30 is a good mix of capabilities of Su 34 and Su 35.

Capabilities of the SU-35?!

Everyone is entitled to a bit of nationalistic bragging, and undoutebly that the Flanker family is something that Russians should be proud, but dont over exagerate. Fantastic aircrafts, true, but not Luke Skywalker´s X Wing.

Cheers

Partnership between Alenia and General Dynamics for the USAF T-X deal: General Dynamics and Alenia Aermacchi team up on T-X bid

After reading this one my sentimental side is hoping that the USAF picks the M346 just for the pleasure of seeing a new military aircraft with the logo of General Dynamics!

The “E” is the lead developmental airframe for UAI. As such it can carry the JSOW, JASSM, and any future ASMs that gets UAI. All the E’s have been updated with Blk1 UAI functionality.

Correct, but its not detrimental of what i´ve said, has off now there´s not one single operational “E” with an Ashm capability. Would it be dificult to integrate such a capability in the “E”? Absolutely not. Are there Eagles with an Ashm capability? Yes there are.

I’ve been thinking that US aviation is really going downill badly recently with badly run and technically flawed programs such as the F-22, F-35A, B and C, Dreamliner, Super Hornet, Boeing tankers and on top of that the USAF fall back option, their 4th gen fighters, are all thoroughly outclassed by Euro canards etc etc.

Recently? No. There has been a major slashing in jobs and output of the American Aerospace Industry for four decades, its not recent. In the sixties the American Aerospace Industry was entirely dominant (Warsaw Pact excluded by obvious reasons), today its still (and by far) the biggest and more technological advanced in the planet, but in severall areas where there was almost an USA monopoly there has been major challenges, more preciselely in commercial aviation, helicopters and commercial space launching, the only place in wich it has maintained a clear lead is precisely military aviation and if the next twenty years mirrors the last twenty even that area might get “interesting” by virtue of increasing Chinese investment.

And i would dispute that several projects that you have listed are “badly run and technically flawed”, i also would dispute that the latest Eagle variants (K, SG) are “thoroughly outclassed by Euro canards”.

Add to this that when the Meteor comes online the US will no longer have the A-A missile monopoly

There was never a US Monopoly in AAM´s.

and the rest of the world has now learnt how to design and manufacture low observable warplanes ending the US ‘stealth’ dominance, worse still the foreign stealth fighters will probably work

They will not have massive teething problems and will smoothly work because they are not American?!

unlike the US jets with their laundry list of show-stopping technicial issues.

Remember the original T-10? Or the LCA? How many months behind did Eurofighter get before production started? And those magnificent successes, the Nimrod AEW and MRA4? Or the auto-detachable Airbus refueling boom? Etc, etc, etc…
There´s a “laundry list” of non USA military programs that got massive problems.

All that money available to the US and yet its all gone so very wrong, why is this?

A mix of extreme gold plating and barrel pork politics.

“When” being the appropirate word. When that happens there will also be many new Russian missiles around, and possibly a new AMRAAM variant to counter it.
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Not a chance in hell of either situations happening.