DEW is a long way away.

Power, size and cost issues are going to be immense. The technology isn’t there yet.

What a nonsense. The F-16C has a better T/W ration than the Su-35BM.

He’s right to a pretty far extent. T/W ratio isn’t the be-all-end-all of acceleration and speed. It’s also aircraft shaping!

AFAIK, the T/W of the Su-35BM is just a tiny tiny bit HIGHER than that of the F-16C, actually.

2-3 billions per 3 cruisers = 6-9 billions. Furthermore I don’t know where are this number ($ 70 billon year to arms procurement) from. Consider that the current defense budget is $ 40 billions (nominal dollars) or $ 60 billions on a PPP basis.

Anyway I would assume the re-entering of Kirovs will come in parallel with retirement of Slavas. Certainly this would mean the dead of the Ukrainia deal.

No way is one cruiser costing $2-3 billion each to upgrade. That’s the total cost. They aren’t building new vessels here….

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And I believe that $70 billion / year is ON TOP of the regularly allotted budget.This is all from Popovkin.

Even if Iran get’s the bomb – who says they are going to use it?

While they keep on suggesting they are going to “wipe Israel off the map” – Israel has nuclear weapons too, so it would be an unwise proposition to spark a nuclear exchange.

So is it now a confirmed fact that the Tu-22M3 no longer flies in the Russian Naval Aviation?

I think it’s unconfirmed at this time. I suspect that RuAF Backfires can perform anti-shipping tasks, almost 100% certainty.

Fly away cost-
SE- $100 million
Block 60- $80 million
F-35A- $60 million

Pfcem possessed wrightwing?

SE –> $100m
Block 60 –> $80m
F-35 –> ?! $120m + ?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I’m going to sig that. I’d love to see you say that to an F-117 Gulf War vet. 😀

Face it. As I am typing this today, stealth aircraft have the upper hand. That will likely change in the future, but right now it is not.

Feel free to “sig” anything you want. He’s right. As far as *real* dangers go, GW1 and Kosovo were a cake walk.

Stop twisting numbers into something you want them to be, not what they mean in reality with all things taken into consideration.