@Spud
Sorry, but the Russians simply cannot outspend the West in the areas of R&D to claim technical superiority.

Russia always outspends in the fields it choose to compete and those are really hard scientific fields.
It takes nearly 8 years of combined Ukranain and Western engineers work to produce nuclear fuel for 45% of reactors if everything go according to plan for practically outdated reactors.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/business/ukrainian-nuclear-reactor-now-using-non-russian-fuel-first-time/#.W2sFoChKjIU
From 2021, the number of reactors with Westinghouse fuel will increase to seven, the company said.

@LMFS

It’s only 400km vs non VLO assets. A VLO assets will be able to get within 100-200km which is well within the range of jammers like MALD-J and LO CMs like JSM.

That 400km is 20 year old figure for export variant. Russia has tremendous confidence in it’s engineer to continuously improve the system faster than anyone else that’s why don’t fear exporting it to every one .

The one border that they needed to defend, was not being defended

you cannot defend that border without constant air to air patrol against standoff missiles. Unless Russia want to shoot down the aircraft the moment it takes off.

There is not much investment from Syria in defending against these kind of attacks.

Given that Israel has used F-35s in Syria against Syrian and Iranian troops without nary a peep from the Russians in the way of a warning or a coordinated defence, I don’t put much stock in their claims of “anti-stealth” systems.

first you have no evidence of F-35 entering airspace and than you are assuming they want to use the system against Israel at this point. Saudi has put indirect sanctiosns on Germany.

kh-31 test. looks faster than brahmos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU__4qf7s4E

@ClanWarrior
Interesting news about the Gripen NG E/F being able to Supercruise (I did not know that fact), how would it compare with the Su-57 should it get the engines that are capable of Supercruise?

There is no official news regarding Gripen E/F supercruise on manufacturer website. Gripen NG is built with obsolete materials so it is overweight for the amount of fuel internally it carries. its supercruise will be at higher altitude short of fuel that will make it even more short range. I am sure you would not find any pictures of Gripen E/F carrying heavy pods on wingtip. Did Gripen NG put AIM-120 on wingtip? how many years it is flying with loads.

Su-35 is built from ground up with new materials and engines. it is officially declared supercruise and various heavy loads on airframe.

https://www.uecrus.com/rus/presscenter/odk_news/?ELEMENT_ID=2838
19.02.2018
10 years from the date of the first flight of the Su-35 fighter with Al-41 f-1s Gen 4 ++

Germany impose a fighter on Sweden. Phfft.

Sweden admit publicly they cannot say No to Germany.

https://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5N1T93UA
Our judgement was that we were not able to say no,” Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Mikael Damberg, told reporters.

Until there is a drastic re-awakening of the German public, don’t expect military spending to increase drastically any time soon. Its a shame such a beautiful country is being stolen underneath their noses. The Russia-friendly Merkel government loved shifting money to their equivalent of socialist welfare. Do it for the poor children. Do it for the helpless elders and the invalids. Do it for the innocent migrant children. Putin just laughs at the west and how easy they’ve made it for him to run his scheme. Lots of German government spending sucked directly to Moscow for oil & gas supplies. Allegedly. Everyone knows Merkel is a Putin puppet. Even if America sells LNG to the EU, the fake eco-friendly German government will justify buying the dirtier supplies from Russia. German ministers lied to their population about green energy and money went east. I hope Typhoon technology doesn’t get sucked up, too.

It has nothing to do with German public but new EU integration that is being created. Every country will come under pressure to buy and build EU products and beyond 2022 they will really feel it.

http://www.janes.com/article/81708/lm-highlights-italy-s-importance-to-f-35-programme-as-government-commitment-waivers
LM highlights Italy’s importance to F-35 programme, as government commitment waivers

do you think this thing would have moved forward without Germany?

https://www.mbda-systems.com/eurosam-together-aselsan-roketsan-lay-foundation-strategic-cooperation-air-missile-defence/
EUROSAM, together with ASELSAN and ROKETSAN, lay the foundation of strategic cooperation in air and missile defence

@BIO

The US is a top 5 trading partner for them, while Turkey does not make it in the top 30 for the US

I am not sure where you get this number but even if its correct the 5th number can be irrelevant compared to first two. Turkey is part of Germanic economic system and Germany fear Turkey so to protect EU Germany want pipelines in the North. Countries in Balkans and Ukraine hand over People to Turkey.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ukraine-arrested-key-feto-suspect-inan-for-ankara-134689
Ukraine arrested key FETÖ suspect İnan for Ankara

with S400 Turkey will be even better position to squeeze money out of Gulf countries(They will be force to sell bonds or raise energy prices), closed water supply to Arabs/Kurds and make them more dependent on imported food and products.