They are designed and build to counter differents threats alltogether, so i do not see any point in trying to compair them.

One should really debate how good they can support each other in their missions.

close but not quite.

one was designed during the days of dedicated mission aircraft
the other was designed during a time of mutli-mission, omni-role aircraft..

its like trying to choose between the F-106 and F-4.

There are multiple reasons why Russia is already wanting a replacement of the Foxhound.

Su-35 duh, its newer
its designed to fight more types of air threats and even air to ground threats than mig-31.
probably cheaper to operate and maintain too.

Well, i argued that was bs. And now, more than one year later they have broken that 500 flights barrier. But maybe our resident gut feeling experten number 2 (guess who n1 is…) will tell you that cant be right, 500’th flight was done last summer!

you mean the speculation experts who would be lost with out google translate to read Russian lol.

so will the turks build a j-31 clone like the koreans? lol

because the Soviets didn’t really make one either. they made an armed transport chopper

The Japanese must be snapping gums then because they seem to be waiting for the US to do something.

Yeah the Japanese aren’t hateful towards anyone…

way to cherry pick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL5BfDPa3Jc
so lame. I can do the same and say all Americans are hateful too. lol

difference between PRC and Japan is..
you got large protests and self immolation against Abes attempt to increase nationalism in Japan
in PRC you got large protests and people wanting more nationalism because the govt is not kicking the ass of smaller countries lol

http://rt.com/news/169448-japan-protest-military-law/

Sorry, but i don’t think you can master any sense

ISIS has one way enough MANPADs to which Su-25 is vulnerable. Iraq need’s to achive:

– delivering ground support: Mi-35 (gun-ships), Su-25

– suppressing moment of groups: Su-24M2 (fast, ground capabilites, can stay out of MANPDS) – relatively cheap because Russia will retire this airplanes.

– controlling the border (sky). special toward south!! and west. Urgently needing fighter with forund capaibilites to supplement Su-24

Su-34 of course these are for delivering punches before Iraq gets up. This will be a long war.

And beacuse Su-24M, Su-25 Mig-29 are used by Syria is logically to expect that adaptation won’t take long. Syrian pilots with ex-RuAF jets (expect Su-34) is the cheapest start-up, fastest and cost/effective measures.

Iraq will have to strike into Syria if they want to be safe.

not cheap. youre promoting a conventional method of warfare against an opponent fighting unconventionally, something terrorists are good at.

the Jihadis have been pretty resilient in the face of opponents with better weapons.

i wouldn’t be surprised that by the end of the month, the ISIS will acquire some aircraft simply because the Iraqi security will abandon it for them.