Thats without R and D costs.
Radar, the BARS is probably still better as the F-15K does not have an AESA.
Payload, the Eagle is getter,
Pilot interface is probably similar, both have helment cueing systems and ergonomics is similar on both, although US planes are know to have better ergonomics. Weapons capability is in the favor of the Eagle which has a huge variety of weapons available to it. JDAM, JSOW, SLAM-ER, and others.
Its funny how the US is sinking a ship that every other country on the planet could only dream of operating at this time.
Without Russia, US would dominate, even without carriers, just flood the area with SSNs. But with Russia, and if their stuff still works, then the large Russian submarine force would cause a lot of problems.
Before WWII: British ruled the seas
WWII: Japan would have whooped
Now: Depends on where the war is, JMSDF has better surface fleet, and defensive capability. RN has better submarines and power projection
Battleship: Yamato or Iowa, but I pick Iowa cause it could kill the Yamato 🙂
Carrier: Gotta love the behemoth Nimitz all the way
Cruiser: Hmmm. since there are only two choices, I pick Kirov it is definitely a looker. The other choice on the other hand…cough…Ticonderoga…cough.. is rather ugly
Destroyer: Gotta go with the Arleigh Burkes, the raked sail is beautiful
Frigate: nod goes to the Dutch and the LCF
Smaller vessel: Visby for now, but I’m rooting for the General Dynamics version of the LCS
Submarines: Seawolf class, the sail is so good looking.
The US could flood the area with SSNs, SSGNs, and wipe out the JMSDF. Just need carriers to provide cover from the Japanese P-3C fleet, which is the best in the world, including the US, they are more advanced, just can’t launch SLAM-ER like the US ones, and there are less of them. The carrier air wing will destroy the Japanese air force, even with F-15J, and F-2, they don’t have active AAM, even if they did, I don’t think the Japanese planes have the avionics to use the missiles at their full potential like the Superbugs can. A final note, the most powerful ships in the JMSDF inventory is the Kongo class DDG. The USN has more than 40 of such ships and they can launch Tomahawks.
That’s one of the reason’s why the old Tico are retiring, that and the fact that they don’t have VLS, but the new SPY-1C and SPY-1D radars are still some of the world’s best radars. The AEGIS is also the only battle tested, naval mounted, phased array. Since everyone thinks that the Smart-L is so great, you would have to include the SPY-3 AEGIS in there as well because it has been built and tested, just not deployed on a vessel yet.
That chart has to be innaccurate. How does the South Dakota rank weaker than Iowa in firepower and speed. The South Dakota’s were less armored, faster, and had the same armament as the Iowa’s witht the same FCS.
I am pretty sure some of the Russian SSM’s could knock out a battleship. One of them, carried by the TU-22M Backfire, has a 1000kg warhead and flies at Mach 3+.
The Virginia is the Seawolf, but cheaper. It is not as fast, but it can manuver better in littorals because it is much smaller. The sensor suite is almost identical. Both subs have max tactical speed(speed at which they can run and still remain undetected) of 25 knots, which is leaps and bounds above the 688 boats who go about 8 knots. Another major difference is that the Seawolves carry a combo of 50 ADCAP/Tomahawk/Harpoons + VLS tubes. The Virginia carries half that load.
What was the secondary armament for the Yamatos? 20×5″ Mk 38s for the Iowas, right?
Poland’s “New” Attack plane eh!
That’s why they put so much equipment and fancy toys into the planes. For A2G, the pilot really doesn’t have to think anymore. Its more like fly and press the red button because you don’t have to aim A2G ordinance anymore. It is just release it in the weapon’s envelope and it will hit. This is why the USAF is adding A2G capability to the F-15C. It is not hard to train fighter jocks to do ground pounding anymore.
The US has the AIM-120C7 coming with 75 mile/120 km range and after that the AIM-120 D will come out with a new fuel and have a range of 120 nm/220 km. These are nimble, hard to jam AMRAAMs. Not to mention that they will be on the F-22 and F-35.
As for the KS-172, if it homes in on electronic radiaiton, then the AWACS can just shut down its radar. Then there is the fact the the next generation AWACS will have AESA technology making it hard to track them.