Hmm…that is completely false.

Ooooh wise master.
Thank you very much for your supreme enlightenment and your illustrious explanations :rolleyes:

Thats because an IRST isn’t a replacement for a radar by a long shot

Gee weez, few posts ago dynamo was lauding so much the capabilities of the 20 year old AAS-42 that he made me believe that the Americans should have installed a new model/generation of an IRST on the Raptor.:rolleyes:

In case of a hypothetical war, the winner of the air battle will be the one who will destroy the oponent’s stealth aircraft on the ground. The aircraft that has the advantage is not the one that is slightly stealthier than the other, but the one that has longer legs.

And if the quoted range (to be confirmed) of the T-50 at 5500km is correct, then it will be operating from airfields that are out of range of the Raptor.

Checkmate (Russian style).

Go POGO go.

Congrats.

Not really. The SA-2 system is still useful, because it has an optical guideance system and pose a constant threat by that in the fine-weather conditions of the ME.

Actually later versions of the S-75 (SA-2) have a ground target attack mode. One of the buttons on the control pannel switches it to that mode. The button is called ZEMLYA (which means ground in Russian). In that mode, ground targets of known coordinates can be hit with reasonable accuracy. The range is limited though to 25km.

In Hezbollah’s case, the ground attack mode is not very usefull as they have already an arsenal of much cheaper and smaller rockets that can go much further than that.

The codename system is so cold-war stereotype, cliche, depasse, antique, obsolete. It is more appropriate for teenagers playing PC games.

But in any case, if an idiotic ASIC codename is going to be assigned to the aircraft that is going to beat and humiliate the Raptor in future air combat, then I suggest:

Flamebait

:D:diablo:

A late modelUSAF F-86 Sabre was shot down by Colonel Pepelyaev during Korea.

The aircraft crashlanded at the seacoast and sustained limited damage. That aircraft was evaluated. The most interesting feature that the Soviets got out of that airplane was the advanced (for that time) sighting system.

Why did they cange the TEL-truck for the S-400 system? That old KamAZ was pretty cool.. (OTOH I bet its refueling-bills could have made even Chuck Norris cry like a baby).

There was never a KAMAZ truck. It was the MZKT truck made in Belarus. The one that hauls the S-400 is the BAZ from BZKT made in Bryansk (Russia).

Fresh photos from Zhukovsky.

Tu-95 with pylons for Kh-101 and/0r Kh-102 cruise missiles.

Su-35 with Kh-31 missile

More photos at Airwolf‘s site http://photo.strizhi.info/v/airwolf/airwolf/airwolf_005/