JSRthat is 1960s and 70s when SAM barely has range of 20km and radars were primitive
integrating strategic SAM to the whole country level protection from all kind of threats (even Civilian airline traffic and UAV) and training thousands of people to maintain and operate it. that SAM get constant updates both in hardware and software to deal with emerging threats. the host country will have great confidence in long term viability of the supplying nation for implementing such complex project.
it is constant high level meetings. by this Russian will have good idea about Rafale and other exported equipment in region that fly around.
JSRthe point is Arrow/Iron dome cant deal effectively with this problem SA2 is used merely light up airdefences while rest of more mobile sams for actual work.
Advanced SAMs are sold in Middleast and I am sure they will observe flight patterns of Israel airforce like what kind of weopons are under F-16 wings. It is far easy to modernize SAM network than fighter. plus countries that operate aircraft similar to Israel
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180208-russia-egypt-received-anti-ballistic-missile-system/
Russia: Egypt received anti-ballistic missile systemThe Russian official pointed out Egyptian experts are currently being trained to operate the system adding that “negotiations are currently underway to send additional patches” the Sputnik news agency reported.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2017-02-12/egypt-picks-sides-syrian-war
Egypt Picks Sides in the Syrian War
than there is MIG29SM. easily most acceleration fighter, every one can maintain it whether its Serbian/Iranian or Chinese. so quantity of MIG29S can easily be boosted in Syria. the stronger the radar network the more effective MIG29S for interception. there is always Kh31PM for dealing with SAMs.
JSRSo what was that Tomahawk missile strike on the Syrian air base all about?
French already did big climb down on Syria and Merkel relegated Ukraine to dustbin. and that is just beginning because Egypt/Iran/Turkey are getting equiped with Russian technology and at some point they are going to squeeze other wealthy Arabs and Israel. It’s there geographical advantage.
JSRNot specific to the USAF, but this could be huge in terms of impact on acquisition, readiness, RDT&E for the USAF and the other services.
why it will be huge when cost of human resources , imported materials/components/energy sky rocket along with more inefficient logistic and industrial chain.
JSRThat Turkish helicopter look like poor maintaince or small armed fire not some superduper weopon. The Israel raid more Twitter function like hitting desert . Some of airbases have Russian heli and troops and Israel is warned stay away from it.
JSRI am no expert on Israeli strikes inside Syria and where they all have occurred over the last few years, but a cursory search reveals that they have struck targets a good 200 km north of Golan Heights and 150 km + North of Damascus
Syria can easily launch long range missiles at Israel but Russia has been restraining it. There is no economic or scientific substance for Russia in dealing with Israel. Isreal simply unable to drill any oil and gas for past 15 years . the drone technology is simply not cutting edge relative what Chinese now exporting.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2018/02/10/-Unacceptable-to-endanger-lives-of-Russian-soldiers-in-Syria-Moscow-.html
‘Unacceptable’ to endanger lives of Russian soldiers in Syria: Moscow
Chinese building massive influence in Arab world. At some point both Egypt ( they rearming so quickly) and Turkey will impose air and sea blockade in north and south of Israel. Even Irak largest Oil customer is now China. There airspace will be open to China. The only country that Israel has to negotiate will be China and what will China demand in return?
JSRThey have been doing so for quite some time now. The rest is nothing but an argument that is of little value strategically. There is a mismatch between the two forces (IDF offensive capability vs Syrian defensive capability) irrespective of upgrades having taken place or not. Sure, had they received more significant upgrades the price to pay may be higher but strategically the IDF will still have a fairly high chance of carrying out its orders to strike these targets
I guess you are not paying attention. IDF only chances until now was to meet Putin who is very restrained person when it comes to Jewish issues. but now certain things changed.
Frist China put mild sanction on SKorea that force it elect a person who will put policy shift on NKorea. than there was secret squeeze on Turkey that force it change the policy on East Turkestan. Chinese billistic missiles are sold all the way to Qatar. Chinese don’t like Natinyahoo getting too Close to India Modi.
If Israel not too carefull with China will turn whole Middleast/Russia/EU against Israel. A country surviving essentially on Chinese money and technology.
Chinese are now doing exerices with Supercomputers.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/china-claims-new-breakthroughs-in-anti-missile-cooperation-with-russia/
China Claims ‘New Breakthroughs in Anti-Missile Cooperation’ with Russia
A joint Sino-Russian missile defense exercise concluded on December 16.
JSRAfter this the Syrian claims of shooting down or even firing missiles at the F-35I doesn’t seem so far fetched. I mean F-16I is a top of line Frontline asset just after the Ra’am and it has all the latest gizmos and ecm stuff. How did the Syrians manage to target and down a Sufa? It baffles me.
with Chinese semiconductor technology anything can happen.
JSRFrench are now backing down from the chemical issue. They should have known there limitations before hand. because once you backdown. the whole credibility goes down with it.
http://en.rfi.fr/20180209-france-syria/
We have indications of the possible use of chorine has but we do not have absolute confirmation,” she said. “So we’re carrying out this work of confirmation, with other people, because obviously the facts have to be established.”
JSRThis give more flexibility to Ruaf to use airspace.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/07/c_136956957.htm
JSRIt has not prevented the rafale to perform well in technical evaluations and exercises, even against design with biger nose, there is so much more. Gripen/F16/SH size like is ok anyway. In some competing designs, bigger can also hide a lack of sofistication where raw power is to compensate for lack of sensor fusion, integrated avionics etc. Or their massive RCS. The more you radiate the more you become visible also, it can play against you. At that game modern RWR with 3D geo-location must be part of the consideration. It has been almost ten years that rafales display long range BVR passive shots with EW only.
Those are all mediocre competitions done by nation’s lacking technical ability or facing sanctions. J-20 has biggest nose and Chinese also built light ucav with boat load of missile capacity.
JSRWhile BrahMos is basically Onyx, BrahMos-A is something Russians do not use, an air-launched variant of the missile. Russians basically rely on subsonic kh-35 and short reach supersonic kh-31a for their tactical aircraft. Something like brahmos-a could serve them, as it would bit between those two mentioned missiles and the new heavy kh-32 for their tu-22m. That’s not to say russia NEEDS such a missile. it may very well be they considered it and decided such a “medium” missile is not within their requirements.
KH31AD/KH31PMK you is not short range. well into 300km range and Flanker can carry 6 of them plus combine anti-ship/anti-radiation attack on ships.
kh-35UE can hit target destination at 4 meter for export. combination of low rcs and very low altitude attack pattern along with saturated attack make it hard to defeat.
http://www.ktrv.ru/production/68/673/899/
here its 3 meter.
http://russiafeed.com/powerful-new-anti-ship-missile-makes-russian-aircraft-deadly-us-ships/
The Kh-35UE attacks the target at the height of about three meters above sea level – lower than the ship’s deck, which makes detecting it difficult for radar stations. Even if the Kh-35UE is detected, shooting it down at this altitude will be a mission extremely hard to accomplish.
JSRThere are pics of Egyptian Rafale on net. The nose is one of the smallest. Not much different than Gripen/F-16
Can’t believe they can’t enlarge nose in 30 years
JSRGripen NG is failed project. pushing over 8 tons empty fighter with additional 3.3ton fuel capacity entering post 2025 timeline.
JSRLOL. There’s a cute way of saying ‘buy Russian’.
Unfortunately though, the IN is unhappy with the MiG-29K, the IAF isn’t sold on the FGFA, the LMFS doesn’t exist, and the Indian govt will derive no political capital from a Gripen buy.
But two additional squadrons of the Su-30MKI looks quite likely, for what its worth.
another sets of inaccurate statements. All MIG-29K were delivered quickly and with in budget and not a single statement regarding there reliability in operations has proven correct.
Again 50% is very good figure for naval jet and considering how many were on flight deck recently it is reasonable to assume the figure has improved.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/10000-crore-mistake-auditor-fails-navys-main-fighter-jet-mig-29-1437329
The MiG-29K, which is a carrier-borne multi-role aircraft and the mainstay of integral fleet air defence, is riddled with problems” including engine malfunctions which means that in “a best case scenario, a MiG-29 jet will be fully fit for operations less than 50 per cent of the time it is required to be deployed.”
Plus look at rate of induction of Rafale and slow upgradation of M2K and India simply couldnot afford any number of Mirages in 80s/90s plus there upgrade costs.
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