😀 So, according to pilots :

Germany :
Typhoon >> Rafale (according to Major Marc Grüne).
Typhoon > F-22 (correct me if I’m wrong, but again, according to Major Marc Grüne).

USA :
F-22 > Typhoon (USAF sources).
F-22 > Rafale (USAF sources).
side note : they basically have different memories about the encounters than their counterparts’. 😀

France :
Rafale >> Typhoon
Rafale = F-22.

😀

That sums it

F-22»Rafale»Typhoon»F-22»Typhoon»Rafale»Soptwith Camel»F-22

Where can Greenert’s original article be found?

http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2012-07/payloads-over-platforms-charting-new-course

The WTimes article title is a bit ridiculous.

Part of the Raptor fleet uses the APG-77(V1), this variant is equiped with a brand new antenna.

Well against an OpFOR simulating MiG-21 level aircraft, I have no doubt that it happened. :dev2:

Two words: Cope India…

Or Red Flag 08-3

The Indian MiG-21 IS the Bison, developed in Russia.

And with R-77 + R-73 ability, I would pick it easily.

TR1

It might not be so clear cut, look at the photo bellow:

Cheers

Didn’t Oman buy an additional 12 F-16s to replace Jaguars?

Yep, they´ve bought the equivalent to one sqn of Vipers, but they´ve two sqn of Jag´s.

At that time-scale it was an issue. To survive manpads and SAMs in a single pass mission even you have to stay as close as possible to 600 kt. Every turn or jinxing eats into that desired speed in a noticeable way.
Here you can read about “The Flight into Disaster” http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_278.shtml
when the USN relearned the lessons of the Israelis and the Argentinians the hard way. A dash speed of a loaden fighter of 500 kt or below was no longer enough. Even the fighters with an AB could keep an energy-level to dodge one to two missile at best. There was a reason why the USN replaced its A-6s/A-7s in the strike role with F-18s despite the loss in range and endurance or the USAF replaced the A-7Ds with F-16s.

I have no problem to accept that an A-7 is still an useful platform as a stand-off weapons carrier at least. The Jaguar and Su-17 are still able to generate the desired speed=energy level to survive modern defence system with the support of an EW suit.

Maneuver
• To break lock/evade threat
• To depart threat envelope
Electronic Countermeasures
• Jamming
• Chaffe/flare

?!!!!

Trying to portray anything based on a single mission which was poorly planned, organised and led is simplistic on the extreme.
The Corsair had a much, much, much better record on surviving IADS during the sixties, seventies and eighties than almost any of its supersonic counterparts.