Growing pains aside, what exactly can Su-30SM do that Su-35S can’t? Su-35S can do everything Su-30SM can and better.

The first and hugely important in nowadays battlespace (sensor fusion bs story aside) it`s that you have two lucky dudes operating the machine

Su-30 SM, nothing comes closer

Dutch are saying warhead was a 9n314M which Russia still uses. Almaz is saying 9m314 vanilla which is a museum piece. Almaz is probably lying through its teeth. I misread article.

Now, how exactly would investigators know those fine differences between warheads ?

I find this a little far fetched, I guess besides Almaz engineers and real world operators (read officers) no one knows

I don`t think there is an accesible database updated with that kind deep technical info……

“but IMHO its really just shown a number of technology shortcomings. ”

There is a good reason we stopped seeing a lot of footage from US bombings when the transition from laser guided to GPS guided was made. GPS is frankly going to be less accurate almost all the time because of lack of terminal correction and I would bet the majority of US bombing is pretty much exactly as bad as this Russian bombing. If they were lobbing TV guided or laser guided it would be pin point too but nobody wants to waste the money. What the Pentagon releases is the “best of” clips.

That is correct, JDAM is not that accurate thats why americans added a laser guidance system

http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/defense-space/missiles/jdam/docs/laser_jdam_overview.pdf

On the subject of cruise missile failure/success rate, RUSI think that 32 were intended for launch, 2 failed to launch, and 4 dropped out of the sky prior to reaching Syria. That leaves 26 that got to the correct country.

They also say that these things cost $8 million each as opposed to $1.5 for a Tomahawk (roughly). Personally I think it is fairer to compare the success rate to Desert Storm rather than now given the level of experience/refinement the US has amassed since then.

Oh come on ,what does it mean they THINK ? Any solid evidence ?

I am not saying it`s impossible to have duds and stuff, all complex military equipment is prone to this, BUT unleass you have clear evidence one must raise the BS flag

https://twitter.com/MuradoRT

this murad dude follows closely the action

Sweet sweet ECM pods.

Source; https://instagram.com/sashakots/

those ecm pods come in handy in a different type of conflict

the real danger here is manpads, i am more curios if those 30 come with maws, dircm etc

Are you kidding? Wahabbism was created by the CIA especially to destabilize the Russian islamic republics.

Nic

Wahhabism was created by Muhhamad Wahhab in the 1700s, this dude hardly qualifies as a CIA assett.

Now, the fact that later in history they were used by americans to get the russians should be no surprise, their fanaticism was well known.

Where them beloved americans fvucked up was in the foresight department, blowback effect and all